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Hybrids & Heirlooms
As you review seed catalogs and make selections, you may be confronted with the terms hybrid, open pollinated, and heirloom. Crossing specific parent plants produces a hybrid seed (plant) by means of controlled pollination.

joe gardener - Vegetable Gardening- Gardening, Landscaping,Horticultural Resource
Heirloom plants are varieties that have been handed down over many years and sometimes centuries, through farmers and gardeners. Hybrids have been touted to be more disease resistant but there are many old varieties that out-perform.

Garden Tips - January 2008
Heirloom vegetable varieties have better flavor and texture than current varieties, but lack disease resistance. Disease resistance doesn’t mean the plant will not get a disease, but will survive the disease better than a plant without resistance.

Saving Seed from the Garden
Every year a few gardeners ask about saving seed from their flowers and vegetables. Hybrids are wonderful plants but the seed is often sterile or does not reproduce true to the parent plant.

Choosing Garden Seeds
Johnny’s specializes in top quality vegetable and herb seeds that are flavorful, disease-resistant and good producers. New this year are pre-seeded grow mats and circles that take the guess work out of spacing and make growing from seed a no-brainer.

Listings for Heirloom Seed in Iowa

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	Seed Savers Exchange
	Decorah, Iowa (IA) 52101