Saving Seeds

Here's a quick post about saving seeds from the garden. So far we have mustard (right), kale (far right) and romaine seeds (below) and later we'll get some tomato, watermelon and okra seeds. One thing to watch out for when saving seeds is cross pollination of plants from the same families. So since we have bell peppers and jalapeno peppers (of the Solanaceae family) planted in the same plot, the seeds produced may be hybrids which will produce fruit different from non-hybrid pepper or jalapeno. This could make an interesting plant with perfectly edible fruit, but is generally undesirable for serious seed saving.


And to test the germination of these seeds I took 14 of each seed (plus 2 romaine pods) and put them on a wet paper towl and tossed them in a zip bag. Within a few days at least some of them should have spouted, I'll post and update when that happens.All in all saving seeds is a handy skill to practice, if you're interested in reading more about it visit http://www.seedsave.org/ for some useful information. Thanks for reading!