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Aug 5, 2015 10:22 AM CST
Name: Alex Junge
MN st paul, (Zone 4a)
No beats go the second year.


Unless they are heirlooms like those you can buy at baker creek most regular seed shouldn't be saved, if you save a hybrid seed it will either not germanate or revert to one or the other parent, you won't get a honest seed. indeed many of the hybrid seeds have been treated with insecticide by mass corps so when they grow up they produce treated pollen that kills bees, thus are bad for bees and other wildlife. its a nasty rumor I've heard.


I don't save any seed because of the risk of crossing at the community garden i grow at. many veagable seeds can have pollen that travel for miles and its difficult for someone in a community garden to isolate plants.
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