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Saving garden seeds has advantages

August 05, 2006 By: Momoy Category: Flowers, Garden, Plants

Considering all of those seed catalogs that come in the mail over the winter, each offering hundreds of vegetable varieties, why would a gardener bother to collect seeds from the garden to start next year’s crop of tomatoes, beans, cucumbers or squash? Why undertake the effort of harvesting, cleaning, drying, and storing your own seed? [...]

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SAVING SEEDS

August 01, 2006 By: Momoy Category: Garden, Landscaping, Plants

Saving your own vegetable seed is fun. It offers a sense of self-sufficiency and saves money. You can maintain a variety that is not available commercially. There are certain considerations that should be kept in mind when saving seed, however. Hybrid varieties are not likely to be the same as the parent plants; therefore, only [...]

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