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   From: garygarlic@earthlink.net   
      
   This is going to be a longish story; I tend to do that.  You have been   
   warned.   
   On my first pilgramage to the Seed Saver's Exchange summer campout, I   
   met Dennis, a fellow gardener and heirloom veggie nut.  He had been   
   injured at work, but was still getting around pretty well...one   
   obsession of his was turnip greens.  Dennis trialed many varieties in   
   his quest, finally settling on a Czech variety: "Horpaczi Lila," which   
   he got from the East German seed bank!  Fast forward some years.   
   Dennis is now less mobile, but I have visited him most years at his   
   apartment north of Chicago. At one point he tells me the turnip story   
   on the phone, and says he has some pretty old seed he'd like to have   
   grown out (hint, hint), so he mails me part of his at least 10-year   
   old stock, which I plant that spring in the greenhouse.  Yield: about   
   a dozen plants, and a teaspoon of seed.   
   Next spring, to the garden, harvesting a couple dozen roots.  The next   
   spring, about a pound of seed!   
   I still have some of that seed, germinating about 25% indoors, and I'm   
   not getting any younger.   
   Sooo.... if anyone would like to grow this out (you can steal some of   
   the first-year leaves to do  your own taste test) drop me an email   
   with snail address.  No obligation except to do  your best to "pay it   
   forward" and raise some more seeds to keep this old-timer going.   
      
   Cheers!   
      
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   Gary Woods O- K2AHC   
      
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