Black Duck Deals via Amazon has
30-Pack Deluxe Valley Greene Heirloom Non-GMO Vegetable Garden Seeds on sale for
$9.99.
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Tinkleondabeach2 for finding this deal.
Includes:- Burpee Stringless Green Pod Garden Bean
- Topnotch Golden Wax Garden Bean
- Detroit Dark Red Beet
- Calabrese Green Sprouting Broccoli
- Nantes Coreless Carrots
- Cubanelle Pepper
- Stowell's Evergreen Sweetcorn
- Country Gentleman Sweetcorn
- Table Queen Squash
- Chicago Pickling Cucumber
- Marketmore 76 Cucumber
- White Spine Cucumber
- Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce
- Beefsteak Tomato
- Garlic Chives
- Green Arrow Peas
- Keystone Resistant Giant Pepper
- Rutgers Tomato
- Jack O' Lantern Pumpkin
- Champion Radish
- Golden Bantam Sweetcorn
- Parris Island Cos Lettuce
- Cherry Tomato
- Purple Top White Globe Turnip
- Seven Top Turnip
- Black Beauty Zucchini Squash
- Early Scarlet Globe Radish
- Bloomsdale Longstanding Spinach
- Early Prolific Straightneck Squash
- Buttercrunch Lettuce
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​LOL well let's see . . . I currently have their beefsteek tomato, Detroit dark red beet (almost ready to harvest) keystone resistant giant bell pepper, cubanelle pepper, mammoth dill (not included in the 30 packet offer) and a 2nd round of purple top turnips growing, but it will be a month or so before I can share harvest pictures of most of those. I'm attaching photos of the black seeded simpson lettuce, parris island cos Lettuce, buttercrunch lettuce, 1st round of purple top turnips, and bloomsdale longstanding spinach I harvested last month.
But when THAT plant produces seeds, those seeds aren't going to produce the same plant. The "grandchild" plant is going to be different. You can't buy Jalafuego seeds and grow them this year, and then save the seeds and grow more Jalafuegos next year.
Heirloom seeds are not better or worse than hybrids, just a different mindset. I haven't really heard of the term "heirloom" being applied to anything besides tomatoes before (sometimes it's just called "open-pollinated"). With tomatoes you have people that like the idea of really unique tomatoes that they can cultivate over the course of years, and you have people that just want a plant that produces hundreds of super sweet cherry tomatoes and is resistant to disease, and don't mind buying seeds or plants every year.
I've said this in other posts on these same seeds, but I think calling these "heirloom" is a little misleading. The concept of heirloom chives is ridiculous. Chives are a perennial that spread by multiplying bulbs underground, there's no reason to care whether their seeds will grow the same plant. I also can't imagine trying to collect seeds from broccoli or lettuce but maybe people do this? As many people have said, these are not particularly expensive seeds, how could that be worth your time? At any rate there are no health or quality implications with hybrids vs. heirlooms despite what this seller is saying. And of course they throw the GMO scare in there even though you can't even buy GMO seeds at the consumer level.
If it were me, I'd take the $10 and buy 4 or 5 individual packets of vegetables that you really like, and get experience with those. And apart from tomatoes, don't worry about whether they are heirloom.
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But when THAT plant produces seeds, those seeds aren't going to produce the same plant. The "grandchild" plant is going to be different. You can't buy Jalafuego seeds and grow them this year, and then save the seeds and grow more Jalafuegos next year.
Heirloom seeds are not better or worse than hybrids, just a different mindset. I haven't really heard of the term "heirloom" being applied to anything besides tomatoes before (sometimes it's just called "open-pollinated"). With tomatoes you have people that like the idea of really unique tomatoes that they can cultivate over the course of years, and you have people that just want a plant that produces hundreds of super sweet cherry tomatoes and is resistant to disease, and don't mind buying seeds or plants every year.
I've said this in other posts on these same seeds, but I think calling these "heirloom" is a little misleading. The concept of heirloom chives is ridiculous. Chives are a perennial that spread by multiplying bulbs underground, there's no reason to care whether their seeds will grow the same plant. I also can't imagine trying to collect seeds from broccoli or lettuce but maybe people do this? As many people have said, these are not particularly expensive seeds, how could that be worth your time? At any rate there are no health or quality implications with hybrids vs. heirlooms despite what this seller is saying. And of course they throw the GMO scare in there even though you can't even buy GMO seeds at the consumer level.
If it were me, I'd take the $10 and buy 4 or 5 individual packets of vegetables that you really like, and get experience with those. And apart from tomatoes, don't worry about whether they are heirloom.
I'd love for them to stop eating my lilies and well everything.
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But when THAT plant produces seeds, those seeds aren't going to produce the same plant. The "grandchild" plant is going to be different. You can't buy Jalafuego seeds and grow them this year, and then save the seeds and grow more Jalafuegos next year.
Heirloom seeds are not better or worse than hybrids, just a different mindset. I haven't really heard of the term "heirloom" being applied to anything besides tomatoes before (sometimes it's just called "open-pollinated"). With tomatoes you have people that like the idea of really unique tomatoes that they can cultivate over the course of years, and you have people that just want a plant that produces hundreds of super sweet cherry tomatoes and is resistant to disease, and don't mind buying seeds or plants every year.
I've said this in other posts on these same seeds, but I think calling these "heirloom" is a little misleading. The concept of heirloom chives is ridiculous. Chives are a perennial that spread by multiplying bulbs underground, there's no reason to care whether their seeds will grow the same plant. I also can't imagine trying to collect seeds from broccoli or lettuce but maybe people do this? As many people have said, these are not particularly expensive seeds, how could that be worth your time? At any rate there are no health or quality implications with hybrids vs. heirlooms despite what this seller is saying. And of course they throw the GMO scare in there even though you can't even buy GMO seeds at the consumer level.
If it were me, I'd take the $10 and buy 4 or 5 individual packets of vegetables that you really like, and get experience with those. And apart from tomatoes, don't worry about whether they are heirloom.
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