Seed Saving to Preserve Todays Bounty For Tomorrow's Gardens

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Seed Saving to Preserve Todays Bounty For Tomorrow's Gardens

Seed saving has long been the primary way to pass plants down from generation to generation. Seed Saving is not only fun, it's also an important way to perpetuate heirloom plants and to ensure the genetic diversity of the world's food crops, which are eroding at an unprecedented and accelerating rate. Seed saving has been used successfully for many crops over the years-- the varieties we call "heirloom" are here today because of dedicated gardeners like you and me have faithfully saved seed over the generations.

From Seed to Seedling

Plant mortality is highest at the seed to seedling stage. Every seed is really a structure that embodies and protects the baby plant or embryo, plus a certain amount of food to tide it over the early stages of germination and growth. The moment a seed is wakened from its suspended animation and begins to grow it becomes vulnerable, not only to insects, bird, and animal life, but to conditions present in its environment.

Seed Germination

What is seed germination?
Seed germination is one of the most important phases in the life of plants. The seed is the basic building block for plants. Although a seed appears as a tiny capsule, it contains a potential life or embryo within it. In fact, even that seemingly life-less seed has reserve supplies of food and water that keeps the embryo within it alive. Without favorable environmental conditions, the seed is inactive or said to be in a quiescent state. When external conditions become favorable the metabolism process is initiated and the seed will germinate. It is then ready to grow into a plant.

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