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I think possibly there are many different varieties of things that taste the same for geographical / climate reasons. I know when I did my Brussel sprout growing experiment of 14 varieties. There was a definite difference in growth & productivity. But absolutely no difference in flavour/ texture. So I’m guessing some varieties are not meant to grow in the frozen north.
As for carrots yeah they taste the same. But you can still get different shapes & colours. Which makes the growing & eating fun ( for me, it does)
I also think there’s enough variety without even having to grow any F1 seeds. I’ll not lie I have grown a lot of F1s in the past. Especially when I started out. I didn’t actually know what it meant. But know I’m very into saving my own seeds (that is with thanks to people on this forum). I’d like to avoid F1s. I even stopped growing sungold tomatoes because of it! (I really liked them).
Having said all that. I am also a massive cynic and think like you, that most of it is complete BS made up by the seed companies to get more sales.
As for carrots yeah they taste the same. But you can still get different shapes & colours. Which makes the growing & eating fun ( for me, it does)
I also think there’s enough variety without even having to grow any F1 seeds. I’ll not lie I have grown a lot of F1s in the past. Especially when I started out. I didn’t actually know what it meant. But know I’m very into saving my own seeds (that is with thanks to people on this forum). I’d like to avoid F1s. I even stopped growing sungold tomatoes because of it! (I really liked them).
Having said all that. I am also a massive cynic and think like you, that most of it is complete BS made up by the seed companies to get more sales.
Builder that would like to go play in the garden.
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