Plant, Grow and Harvest Heirloom Seeds
What are heirloom seeds? Heirloom seeds and Heirloom plants are synonymous with Heirloom gardening. The major benefit of growing Heirloom seeds is because they offer the grower the ability to save seed from one crop and then use those saved seeds for future plantings.
Hybrid seeds do not allow the grower to save seed from a harvest, because the seeds collected would not grow true to form. Usually home gardeners are not concerned with saving seed, because they purchase seed every year from a retail outlet. However, fruit and vegetable seeds have had a significant increase in price over the past five years, and it is no longer cost effective to buy seeds every year.
Many home gardeners are beginning to grow heirloom seeds so they can harvest the seed for future plantings and save money in the process. In many cases heirloom varieties are also much more tasty than there hybrid cousins. A good example is heirloom tomatoes. A ripe heirloom tomato is superior in every way when compared to the tomato they sell at the store.
