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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: cluckingnuts on February 09, 2011, 09:44:14 am

Title: Home breeding
Post by: cluckingnuts on February 09, 2011, 09:44:14 am

Does anyone breed their own veg?  By this I mean selecting varieties that taste good, grow well in your environment etc, then cross pollinating them to create a variety of your own and not just saving seed/tubers from named types?

Title: Re: Home breeding
Post by: Fleecewife on February 09, 2011, 11:41:16 am

Haven't done so far but I would love to know more about it.

Title: Re: Home breeding
Post by: cluckingnuts on February 09, 2011, 07:11:09 pm

Far easier than you think, after all if our ancestors hadn't been doing it for thousands of years we would still be hunter-gatherers.

Title: Re: Home breeding
Post by: Blonde on March 05, 2011, 06:24:35 am

There is no reason why you cannot collect your own seen from the vegies that  you have grown in your vegie patch and put them down for next years c rop.  At least they will be aclimatised to the evironment that you live in.  Just change the patch in your garden so as not to encourage pests