Open Pollinated Plants - Higher Quality And Better Tasting Vegetables
by John Yazo
Heirloom gardening is a method of planting open polinated plants.They are plants that produce seeds naturally that when planted will produce other plants just like there parent plant.
Pollination of open pollinated plants is accomplished by the wind, insects, bees or other natural means. Planting of more than one variety of the same species can cross pollinate causing the plants not to breed true, so care should be taken not to plant to close to plants of the same species.
Crops from open pollinated plants have many benefits over hybrid plants. There taste is of a higher quality, there tenderness, hardness due to being planted year after year in the same environment and there ability to store over the winter better. The size of vegetables from open pollinated plants are usually not as large as hybrids and the shapes are not always as uniform.
Overall open pollinated plants produce a higher quality crop with incredible taste.
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