Five reasons to grow heirloom plants

Which plants qualify as heirloom plants and which don’t is hotly debated. Many heirloom gardeners disqualify any cultivars introduced after the 1920s, while others use plants up to the end of the 1940s in their WWII Victory Gardens. Some gardeners claim 1951 as the cut-off date for heirloom cultivars.

Planting heirloom varieties is important for keeping botanical diversity alive and thriving, as many cultivars are threatened with extinction. Heritage plants are connections to the past and keys to our future…

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