Create Your Own Locally Adapted Garden Seeds
Growing Greener
English - February 14, 2024 11:00 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 64 ratingsHome & Garden Leisure Science Earth Sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.