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- From: kjp@well.sf.ca.us (Karen Paulsell)
- Subject: Re: a question about seeds
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:15:52 GMT
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- I don't think you need to worry about seeds and crossing state borders.
- If you look at most plant catalogs, in fact, they sell seeds across
- international borders, even, but often not plants or bulbs.
-
- I crossed the California border with over 2 dozen house plants in
- my van. They confiscated my asparagus fern (they are closely
- related to the food-variety asparagus) but let the rest of the
- collection across, no problem. I just had to assure them that the
- plants were grown in purchased potting soil, not in dirt that I
- had dug from my yard, or whatever. (I told them I was coming from
- NYC, and where could one even *find* any ground not covered by
- concrete.) I may have been joking a bit, but I wasn't lying, and
- I would never try to violate these restrictions. I have too much
- respect for the potential damage that can be done by a pest that
- has no natural predators!
-
- In some collection of gardening essays I read, there was a rather
- funny article for US folks who wanted to do the garden-show tour
- of England, bringing back plants. Seems you can even do this, as
- long as you wash *every* shred of soil from the roots (I think you
- also need a permit, which takes some time to acquire). The humor
- was supplied by comments on how inappropriate it was to wash any
- amount of soil down the pipes of the inadequate plumbing of English
- hotels, and the image of folks, bags packed, ready to go to the
- airport, last task to be performed is getting the plants ready to
- travel, sloshing their plants about and packing them up.
-
- So save those seeds!
-