How Do You Get Free Heirloom Seeds?
Heirloom plants are non-hybrid and often open-pollinated, making them prized in the garden because their seeds are usually viable and produce plants true to the parent. Heirloom plant varieties are often different than commercial hybrids, with offerings such as purple tomatoes and blue potatoes. Saving seeds from your own garden plants or asking a friend or neighbor if you may harvest some of their seeds is a simple way to grow your own heirloom plants for free. Look for the seed mechanism on the plant. Seeds are produced beneath the flowers. Annual flowers and some vegetable seeds are usually in pods or clusters that form after the flower wilts, while fruiting plants have seeds within the fruit. Check the pods daily once the pod forms after the flower dies off. Cut off the stem containing the pod once it has dried but before it splits open. Large pods, such as peas, rattle when properly dry. Pick the fruit after it is fully ripe. Once the skin begins to wrinkle slightly, the seeds ins
