Edward Payson Roe said,
"I am often told, "It is cheaper to buy fruit and vegetables than to raise them." I have nothing to say in reply.
There are many cheap things that we can have; experience has proved that one of the best things to have is a garden, either to work in or to visit daily when the season permits.
We have but one life to live here, and to get the cheapest things out of it is a rather poor ambition."
Heirloom vegetables are varieties that are grown, selected,saved, named, and shared by farmers and gardeners.
They were chosen for specific reasons, ... flavor, cold hardiness, early ripening, etc.
Often you can have better flavor and variety with these seeds.
Heirloom plants are accessible now because people have saved seeds for domestic use throughout generations of sustenance farming.
You can really cut down on your gardening costs by gardening with heirloom seeds that you save year to year.
You can also save heirloom flower seeds such as:
cleome, foxgloves, hollyhock, nasturtium, sweet pea, and zinnia.
You are in control of heirloom varieties that do best in your garden.
Saving your own seeds increases your self-sufficiency; and it can save you money.
It is generally accepted that, to be an heirloom, a variety must be open pollinated and be at least fifty years old. And since heirloom seeds and the practice of seed saving also hold hope for helping feed a hungry planet, they're even more compelling today. You can save favorite heirloom seeds for your own use in your garden, breed and improve varieties, swap with friends, join seed-saving organizations, or grow seed commercially at many levels of scale--the possibilities endless!
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