General Gardening Seed Saving

Self Pollinating or Not for Seed Saving

If you are growing only one variety of a plant species or you give a lot of space between varieties, you don’t have to worry about preventing cross pollination. If you want to save open pollinated seeds and make sure they don’t cross pollinate, you should consider using a cross pollination barrier bag and understand […]

General Gardening Seed Saving

Open Pollinated vs Hybrid Seeds

If you are new to gardening, you are probably wondering what these terms mean and how they affect seed saving. Open Pollinated: If your goal is to save seeds, it is best to do it with seeds from open pollinated plants.  This means that if you isolate or distance any varieties within the same plant […]