[Community_garden] Treated seed question

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Weighing in on the corn debate, call me technically challenged but I guess  I 
just hit the "reply" button instead of the "reply to all" .  I was  telling 
'harvey @cord.edu' that I was very interested in this debate a we live  at 
7,000 feet in altitude and have a very short growing season.  I agree  that soil 
temperature has everything to do with germination, but we are not  pushing that 
maturation date so we can get to the market sooner, we're pushing  just to 
get a mature crop.  We get frost as early as August, but soils not  warm enough 
until first of June to plant, even treated seeds, (gasp, used in the  passed 
before I knew better) will rot in these conditions.  We have  excellent dirt 
for a mountain area, as we are in an old creek bed, lots of rocks  but good 
nutrition content, no clay.  
I have many, many questions about organic veggie seeds, as well as non GMO  
if someone has the time to answer.  
            Aren't  all vegetable seeds in some way or form GMO?  That is to 
say they have  through the years been genetically modified, through selection 
of  propagation, long before GMO was an issue.  I am no chemist, nor  
biologist, just a life long gardener trying to sustain good yields in our very  own 
veggie garden as well as trying desperately to pass on correct,  accurate 
information to our brand new community garden folks.  
    This leads to hybrid questions.  Why don't  organic corn seeds have an 
SH, SH2, or F1 designation on them?  



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