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Create Your Own Locally Adapted Garden Seeds

Author
Tom Christopher
Published
Wed 14 Feb 2024
Episode Link
https://growinggreener.libsyn.com/create-your-own-locally-adapted-garden-seeds

Hybrid fruit and vegetable seeds are like thoroughbred horses –  extraordinary performers but not resilient or good at coping with adverse conditions.  When they didn’t succeed in Joseph Lofthouse’s Utah garden, he created his own “landraces”, biodiverse crop strains that “promiscuously pollinate” and speedily evolve to thrive in local conditions and adapt to the gardener’s style of cultivation.

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