How to Save Seeds From Your Favorite Garden Plants Saving your seeds can be intimidating, especially to a new gardener. Even an experienced gardener who hasn’t saved a particular seed before has to learn how. With good information, some trial, and, of course, some error anyone can save their seeds.
Why You Should Save Seeds From Your Garden To the old-timers, saving seeds wasn’t an option, it was what you did so you could plant your garden the following year. As the boomers fled the farm and country life, a whole generation lost this knowledge, and much more. We save most of our seeds. I’m learning about saving little seeds like lettuce and carrot. It’s not something we have traditionally done. But with the economic crisis in the world and the difficulty in finding some seeds, we’re trying to increase our seed supply. Every year we add at least one new plant that is a rare or unusual variety to the farm. We buy these seeds and any other seeds we might need from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, and/or Wood Prairie Farm. We buy from these because we are non-GMO, organic, sustenance farmers. We support their efforts, and we get quality, non-GMO seeds from them.
Lettuce making seeds
Plant Families and Seed Saving Okra Okra is an easy plant to get seed from. Just like with the peas and beans, once the plants are up and blooming, we pick the three largest, healthiest plants for seeds. We tie a brightly colored piece of string around the bush so it doesn’t get picked. As pods dry and turn brown on the stalk, we cut them and bring them inside to dry a little more.
Mature squash seeds
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