Buying Garden Vegetable Seeds Wisely: GMO, Heirloom, Organic, Hybrids Defined - TRG2016
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Sadly, we can get ripped off with seeds. I explain what GMO, Heirloom, Organic and Hybrid means. This will help you understand what you are paying for so you can best spend your money. My opinion... organic and hybrids are a waste of our money. A seed is a seed is a seed. Heirlooms are the best! Check out my vegetable gardening blog: The Rusted Garden. It is filled with garden information, videos, pictures, seed catalogs and seeds & things I sell. http://www.therustedgarden.blogspot.com Join My FaceBook Gardening Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/262500970619372/
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Very informative, Thanks!
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Very helpful as is all your videos, some of your info differs from others but I take your advice over the others.
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Baker creeks is expensive, but they have SUCH a good variety.
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Thanks immensely. I plan to open a big garden and did not know where to get good seed that I can save and replant.
All what you have made me know is very useful. Now I am sure to get good seeds at a good price. Thanks again . Prisca -
where could i buy bulked seed online
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Heirlooms are just hybrids than have been manually pollinized and selected to reach or keep a desire characteristic for many seasons, anyways heirlooms may give better results overall, and yes they are stable seed wise. They are GMO like pretty much every plant we eat but trough the old ways via artificial selection to give better yield, resist pest and stuff like that (not changing the common family genes or adding other plant types genes like soy or corn to survive herbicides) nothing to be afraid.
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Thank you for your breakdown on GMOs! There is so much disinformation about them.
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Great video thanks I was wondering if you know about a seed company from ontario canada called zappa seeds?
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awesome video
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Heirloom = IBL ... did not know this ty
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very helpful Thank you
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Just a side note, you don't have to keep buying hybrid tomato seeds. Use cuttings from the original plant and the result will be the exact replica
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You've just earned a new subscriber it looks like you know what you are talking about :) But I do have a question tho. I was thinking of purchasing some pineberry seeds this year from amazon because I want to grow some. Should I? Or do you know for instance a better place to get pineberry seeds from?
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My tomatoes cross pollinate every year seeds saved always revert to a plum tomato ! Those plums have strong dna ! How can i avoid this? Buying new seeds is the every year?
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Thank you for educating me.
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well you almost got the idea of hybrids but hybrid plants are made through a process of severe inbreeding then breeding two inbred plants the resulting seed is your hybrid and only about a third of the seeds saved from a hybrid will be of any count
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I'm new to your channel and fairly new to gardening and I just love your videos and really appreciate all the info and video topics! Thanks so much! Keep them coming! :)
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You were doing great until you got to hybrids. Big Beef hybrids taste as good as any of your 'heirloom' tomatoes, and will churn out fruit long after your heirloom plants have given up the ghost to disease. And if there is any price difference, it's pennies, and a tiny fraction of your total gardening cost.
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Really informative and helpful video. Thanks so much for making it :D
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Hybrids are made by inbreeding a plant that have certain characteristics like resistance to disease with itself then you do the same with another plant that has a different trait that you desire then you take the too inbreed plants and put them together and you end up with an F1 hybrid that has the best of worlds so if you live in an area that has a lot of a disease like verticillium wilt which is a big problem where I live then hybrids are pretty much your only options for growing a good crop of tomato as most heirlooms have no real resistance to any disease
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