Why You Should Grow Heirloom Seeds

Why You Should Grow HEIRLOOM SEEDS What is Heirloom? Heirloom seeds come from open-pollinated plants that pass on similar characteristics to the offspring plants. Depending on how they are grown, heirloom plants can be organic or non-organic. vs. GMO & Hybrid HYBRID GMO When different varieties of plants are cross-pollinated to create offspring plants that ideally obtain the desired characteristics from each parent plant. When the seeds are genetically modified using unnautral methods like gene-splicing to ensure resulting plants are displaying desired traits. Although hybrids do offer many benefits, they Gardeners are unable to save GMO seeds don't breed true, which means the offspring plant may not be identical to the parent plant. every year from companies like Monsanto. after harvest and must buy new seeds Benefits of Heirloom Heirloom plants, compared to GMO and hybrids, provide many great benefits for home gardeners such as: Better Taste & Flavor More Nutritious Less Expensive Where to find them Preserve the genetic diversity of our plant species today by growing heirloom seeds. Here are a few places where you may be able to get them locally. 會 Seed Exchanges Local Farms Botanical Gardens Credits Check out OrganicLesson.com for more gardening tips and tricks. http://blog.seedsavers.org/blog/open-pollinated-heirloom-and-hybrid-seeds http://foodsecurity.uchicago.edu/research/preserving-seed-diversity/ http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/heirloom-vegetable-advantages.aspx http://gardening.about.com/od/vegetable1/f/Heirlooms.htm