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Save Your Seeds: A How To

How to Save your Seeds Once you get some gardening under your belt, it might be fun to save your seeds. Not only is it green (no fossil fuels burned in the making), it will save you money. But there are also benefits beyond your household – you will be protecting the gene pool. Some believe that old varieties of seeds and vegetables will only survive and flourish with the help of backyard gardeners. With the advent of hybridization, people stopped saving seeds, and for some crops this has been happening for over the last 50 years. Although there are advantages of hybrid seeds for farmers (better yields, less pests and diseases), the downside is that they produce plants with nearly useless seeds. Hybrid seeds are bred by crossing two different parent plants. Planting seeds from a plant produced by hybrid seeds will produce unknowing results. Thus, it is best to start with heirloom and/or open-pollinated seeds. These seeds have not been manipulated by man and their pollination happens naturally.

Lynnfield Green Technologies

Eco-Toucan Lynnfield Green Technologies develops and markets products for cleaning and sanitizing that eliminate or significantly reduce the need for toxic chemical cleaning and sanitizing chemicals. Their products have appeal at the high end for institutions such as hotels, schools, correctional facilities and homes.

For example, the Toucan-eco technology takes tap water and ordinary table salt to create the worlds finest green cleaning/ sanitizing liquid. The Toucan-eco uses ECA (Electro-chemical Activation) technology to transform tap water and salt into a very effective combined sanitizer and cleaning agent.