SEED SAVING
Both beginning and experienced gardeners can easily begin saving seed, resulting in substantial annual savings and ever increasing self-sufficiency. Seed Saving is not only fun, it's also an important way to perpetuate heirloom plants and to ensure the genetic diversity of the world's food crops, which are eroding at an unprecedented and accelerating rate. To do so successfully, you must be familiar with the basics. |
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| Saving Heirloom Seeds - Seed Savers defines an heirloom as any garden plant that has a history... |
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Saving Seed - Home gardeners were perpetuating and improving vegetable varieties through... |
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| Growing Your Own Vegetable & Flower Seed - In warm climates, most vegetables bloom and produce seed the same year, but in areas... |
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How to Save Seeds - Gardeners have been saving seeds ever since we settled into one place and started growing our own food. |
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Related Sites:
Seed Savers Exchange - A pioneer in the heirloom seed movement, this non-profit organization was founded in 1975.
Seeds of Diversity - Canada's premier seed exchange for the passionate gardener.
Primal Seeds - Exists as a network to actively engage in protecting biodiversity and creating local food security |
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