What is an Heirloom Seed? An Heirloom Seed is just what you think it is. It is a seed that has been passed on generation after generation. Just as an antique piece of furniture your great grandmother gave you. Most Heirloom seeds have been passed down for hundreds of years, some even 300 plus years. The Heirloom seed is saved and passed down usually for its flavor, heartiness, adaptability, and it ability to produce a good harvest. An Heirloom seed is harvested from the same plant. Each year you can harvest the seed from the plant you planted, save the seed, plant the seed the following year, and have the same plant with all the same characteristics of the original plant. You can buy Heirloom Seeds from Grannys Seeds online at grannysseeds What is a Hybrid Seed? Hybrid Seed is just as it sounds. Someone has naturally cross pollinated 2 plants of the same variety to make a new variety. This can be done by hand or by Mother Nature. The Hybrid Seed doesn’t hold the same characteristics of either of the original seeds. Generally Hybrid seeds are produced to enhance flavor, size, color, more yield, and or to fight a certain disease one of the original plants may have been susceptible to. Because a Hybrid seed can be done naturally it is acceptable in today’s market. Most vegetables you find in the market today are some sort of hybrid seed. You can buy Hybrid Seeds from Grannys Seeds online at grannysseeds What is Certified Organic Seed? Organic Seeds are seeds that must follow certain standards set by the USDA. Generally speaking; seeds, plants, soil, processing centers etc., must NOT have been treated with fungicides or pesticides. Records must be kept for the soil and water testing. Those records along with the processing center and fields are all tested to ensure the plants and seeds are meeting the USDA Standards for certification. An Heirloom seed and a hybrid seed can be Organic if the standards were met and inspections passed. You can buy Organic Seeds from Grannys Seeds online at grannysseeds What is Open Pollinated Seed? Open Pollinated seeds are seeds that are harvested from the plant that was grown. You can save the seed and plant it the next year and the same plant will be produced. All Heirloom seeds are Open Pollinated because you use the harvested seed from the same plant every year. That doesn’t mean because a seed is open pollinated it is Heirloom. New seeds are developed every day, but are not old enough to be considered an Heirloom seed. You can buy Open Pollinated Seeds from Grannys Seeds online at grannysseeds What is a GMO Seed? Genetically Modified Seed. GMO Seeds are seed that have been genetically altered using DNA from other things, not plants, and couldn’t have been done naturally as Mother Nature intended. For instance a GMO seed could be a green bean seed genetically modified with the DNA from a NON Plant Based organism such as a frog or bacteria to make the green bean resistant to certain disease or herbicides. The simple idea of altering the DNA of a plant with poisonous bacteria to make a new plant that we eat is what most people are afraid of. GMO Seeds simply put are not natural and the DNA was altered by something NON Plant Based and needs many many more years of testing. Grannys Seeds has signed the Safe Seed Pledge. We HAVE NOT AND WILL NOT SELL GMO Seeds now or in the future. Go to grannysseeds , click on the contact us tab to visit and like us on Facebook or the other social media account of your choice to learn more. You can purchase your Heirloom, Hybrid, Open Pollinated, and Organic garden vegetable seeds from us online grannysseeds or request our catalog to mail order your seeds. May your 2015 Garden be a plentiful Harvest.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 22:48:52 +0000
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