J&L’s Gardening Handouts Tips and Suggestions for Year Round Gardening www.JLGardenCenter.com [email protected] 2018 Non-Hybrid Open Pollinated - Heirloom planted side by side, ensuring that every to commercially-produced, hybrid varieties. Definitions will receive pollen from one variety (father) Heirloom tomatoes have a long record of Heirloom (non-hybrid) - they are not a special and grown on a distinctively different variety producing healthy tomatoes without many disease species of plants. They are ‘open-pollinated’ (mother). Each seed is genetically identical. problems; but commercial growers disagree. Many varieties that have been grown for at least 50 The plant is different than both parents, and has tomato diseases cannot be chemically controlled; years. They are non-hybrid varieties, and the distinctive characteristics from one or both of the the plant’s have to withstand them. can be collected and re-planted. Many parents. Hand , isolation, or physical Many heirloom tomatoes have unique shapes heirloom varieties are not used in modern ‘large- barriers are often used in the pollination process. and have a variety of colors, including purple, scale’ agriculture, but they are used extensively F1 hybrids usually have better qualities, better yellow, white, orange, pink, red, green, black, in home gardens. flavor, higher yields, or in some way have better and striped. Open pollinated (non-hybrid) - Pollination traits than their traditional, open pollinated parent However, some gardeners don’t want unusual, occurs by insects, birds, wind, or other natural varieties. You cannot save and replant seeds from misshapen, or inconsistent tomatoes. They simply mechanisms. The variety will grow ‘true-to- the F1 Hybrids, sometimes they may be sterile. want lots of red, juicy ones; they want hybrids. type’, which means the seeds will produce plants F2 Hybrids - The seed from the F1 hybrid Heirlooms usually take longer to mature and identical to the parent plant, year after year. plants are called F2 Hybrids. The seed will not often produce fewer tomatoes than hybrids. You When harvesting seed, if the best 2/3 of the be identical to the parents, and, the seed will not have to decide which is best for your garden. crop is used for seed, the variety will hold it’s always produce desirable results. The results Genetically Modified or Engineered (GMO) qualities. If only the best 1/2, or less, of the crop from the seed will be random, and you will not The DNA of the plant has been changed. Through is used for seed, the variety will improve. Varieties know until harvest what the results will be; worse, laboratory means, one plant’s genetics are that have been cultivated less than 50 years are same or better. implanted into another plant, where it would never not considered heirloom varieties. Heirloom Advantages and Disadvantages have occurred naturally. F1 Hybrids - These varieties are the results They produce large numbers of seeds and Whether to use hybrid seeds or non hybrid of controlled, specially pollination procedures. bear fruit identical to the parents.They are seeds is a personal question for each gardener. Generally, two open pollinated varieties are considered flavorful, and may even be superior Both types of seeds have their pros and cons. This is not a complete list. Many other non-hybrid varieties may be Common ‘Non-Hybrid’ Vegetable Varieties available from different sources. Beans Early Wonder Utah Celery Black Valentine many more. Ruby Queen Blue Lake Pole Chioggia many more. Collards Blue Lake Bush Georgia Carrots Champion Commodore Non Hybrid Chantenay Royal Imperator 58 Hybrid Edamame Seeds Seeds Fordhook Lima Danvers Half Long Lunar White Corn Most corn varieties are hybrid. Golden Wax Little Finger Cosmic Purple Golden Cross Bantam Kentucky Wonder Nantes Scarlet many more. South American Popcorn Pencil Pod Strawberry Corn Provider Broccoli Romano plus Waltham #29 Broccoli Cucumbers plus Armenian Royal Burgundy Brussel Sprouts Boston Pickling Scarlet Runner Long Island Brussel Sprouts Homemade Pickles Tendergreen Lemon Top Crop Cabbage Marketmore #76 Windsor Fava Equals Copenhagen Cabbage Poinsett #76 Equals Danish Ball Head Cabbage Straight Eight Beets Golden Ace Cabbage Bull’s Blood Chioggia Eggplant Cauliflower Black Beauty Cylindra Early Snowball Cauliflower Long Purple Detroit Dark Red Same Different Thai Green If you grow open-pollinated varieties that Melons Rutabaga you like, you can save their seed, replant it Casaba American Purple Top the next year, and get the same quality. Crenshaw To maintain the best characteristics, be Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe Spinach sure to only harvest seeds from the best 20% Minnesota Midget Cantaloupe Bloomsdale of the plants. Hale’s Best Cantaloupe New Zealand If you grow hybrid varieties that you like, many more. you must go back to the original seed source, Summer Squash and purchase new seed to plant each year. Onion Black Beauty Zucchini You cannot save their seed, replant it the Tokyo Long White Bunching Early Prolific Straightneck next year, and get the same results. There is Red Burgundy Golden Scallop no way to predict what the plant will produce. Walla Walla White Patty Pan White Sweet Spanish Yellow Crookneck many more. Herbs Yellow Sweet Spanish many more. Winter Squash Anise Oregano Blue Hubbard Sweet Dumpling Basil, Cinnamon Parsley, Curled Pak Choi Buttercup Pink Banana Basil, Genovese Parsley, Italian Butternut Delicata Basil, Lemon Mint Parsnips Spaghetti Sweet Meat Basil, Spicy Globe Rosemary Hollow Crown Table Queen Acorn Green Hubbard Basil, Sweet Sage All American Turks Turbin many more. Borage Savory Caraway Sorrel, French Peas Swiss Chard Chamomile Tansy Early Frosty Fordhook Giant Orange Fantasia Chervil Thyme Green Arrow Lucullus Rainbow Chives many more. Laxton Progress #9 Rhubarb Chard Pink Lipstick Garlic Chives Little Marvel Ruby Red Many more Comfrey Sugar Ann Coriander/Cilantro Sugar Sprint Tomatoes Most tomato varieties are hybrid. Cumin Dwarf, Gray Sugar Ace Amish Paste Dill Oregon Sugar Pod Amana Orange Black Cherry Fennel many more. Beefsteak Black Krim Horehound Bonny Best Caspian Pink Lavender, English Peppers, Hot Brandywine, Pink Mortgage Lifter Catnip, Lemon Anaheim Tai Hot Brandywine, Red Mr. Stripey Marjoram, sweet Fresno Chili Yellow Wax Jubilee Tiny Tim Habanero Serrano Large Red Cherry Belgium Giant Kohlrabi Jalapeno Anchos Longkeeper San Marzano Early Purple Vienna Kohlrabi Long Red Cayenne Ghost Marglobe Yellow Pear Early White Vienna Kohlrabi Large Red Cherry many more. Red Pear Roma Rutgers many more. Leeks Peppers, Sweet American Flag California Wonder Chocolalte Bell Turnips Caretan Sunbright Cubanelle Purple Top White Sweet Banana Pimento Seven Top Lettuce & Salad Greens Large Red Cherry Purple Beauty Shogoin Black Seeded Simpson Paris White Yolo Wonder Orange Bell Buttercrunch Prizehead Sunbright many more. Watermelon Great Lakes Salad Bowl Sugar Baby Winter Queen Iceberg Tom Thumb Pumpkins Charleston Gray Mountain Sweet Oak Leaf many more. Big Max Turks Turban Klondike Blue Moon & Stars Arugula Howden Baby Bear Crimson Sweet many more. Mesclum Mix Dill’s Atlantic Giant Casper Endive Jack Be Little Big Moose HEIRLOOM SEEDS Corn Salad (Mache) New England Pie many more. A Seed Variety 50+ Years Old Radish Cherry Belle Plum Purple Remember: Crimson Giant Watermelon This is not a complete list. Many other Easter Egg White Icicle non-hybrid varieties may be available French Breakfast many more. from many different sources. 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