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Show Don't Save Home Grown Garden Seed To save or not to save, that's the question! Whether 'tis better to save home-grown seed this fall for planting next spring or buy new seed next'year. That's the question many home garaners 01 uian are now pondering, pon-dering, and the answer, according accord-ing to Glen T. Baird, Utah State Extension horticulturist, is 1 a definite, "No, don't save it." "There are a number of reasons rea-sons why home gardeners should not use home-grown seed," Mr. Baird said. "As listed by Dr. Leonard Pollard, head of the Utah State Agricultural College vegetable . crops department, ; 3 of these reasons are:" It is practically impossible to maintain seed purity, as to strains. Reasons for this are twofold: two-fold: There will be crossing within with-in a garden; there will be crossing cross-ing between neighboring gardens unless they are at least a fourth of a mile apart. Vegetable seed diseases carry over from year to year and homegrown-seed isc ' not protected against these diseases, j Most home gardeners do not I have proper storage and drying I facilities for handling seed. "Seed is not too big a comparative com-parative expense for most gardeners gard-eners anyway," Mr. Baird pointed point-ed out. "It will, be much wiser for them to invest in the cost of new seed each year than to save their own over from one year to another." |