Gardening With Heirloom Seeds
by John Yazo
Heirlooms plants are a plant in a class of there own and have many unique characteristics and qualities. They apart of history, heritage and culture. When we plant heirlooms we are preserving history. Without these plants being past on from generation to generation they would go extinct and lost forever.
A heirloom plant is a one of a kind plant. They are only reproduced from there parent plant. They are open pollinated, which means that the seed from a particular plant will reproduce a plant true to it's parent plant. For example, if you plant Brandywine Tomatoes which are heirlooms, collect the seeds from a mature plant and then store them for replanting the next season the seeds will reproduce the exact same Brandywine Tomato. This can not be done with a hybrid plant.
Plants that are classified as a heirloom are native and original plants that are dated back a minimum of fifty years. They are open pollinated and will reproduce the same plant as it's parent plant.
There are many reasons that people plant heirloom plants. One being it brings back memories of when they were younger and visualize these plants that there grandparents planted around there home. A large amount of heirlooms that are planted are past down from generation to generation and have allot of sentimental value to them.
It is never to late to start planting heirlooms and starting your own collection of flowers and vegetables that can be past down through generation to come. Heirloom seeds are available through seed exchange groups that sell there seeds and even take heirloom seeds in exchange. Start your own collection and get involved a seed exchange group that will benefit others.
Heirloom gardening is becoming more and more popular to the home gardener. More and more home gardeners are looking to get away from the genetic changed hybrid seeds and also turning to chemical free organic gardening.
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