A great way to start is by collecting the seeds from your flowers and your vegetables. If you buy heirloom seeds to plant in your garden, you should collect the seeds. Once you begin to get organized, things will flow so much better, and you’ll be able to enjoy your garden that much more.
The article below written by Lori Elliott, from Our Heritage Of Health website, gives some great tips on how to collect the seeds from your harvest, and how to take care of them so that you will have them for next year’s planting.
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Saving the seeds from your own garden plants is a simple and easy way to make your frugal, old-fashioned garden even more frugal. Whether you’ve been gardening for years or whether this is your very first year gardening, with a little bit of planning you can easily save seeds from your garden harvest to use again for next year’s planting.
For most types of vegetables, saving seeds is a very easy process that requires little hands-on time and just a bit of organization and planning. Here are a few simple guidelines to make sure that your seeds are stored in a way that will keep them viable for planting next spring.
First Things First
Before you try to save any seeds from your garden, you first want to make sure that your seeds are the type that can be saved for the next year.
For the best seed-saving results, make sure your seeds are:
- Heirloom and open-pollinated (not from hybrid plants)
- Annuals
- Not cross-pollinated
- Fully ripe and from healthy plants
Seeds from hybrid plants will be unpredictable if you try to plant them in your garden the next year, but heirloom seeds will reproduce true to type as long as they weren’t planted close enough to other varieties that they might have cross-pollinated.
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To read the entire article please go over to Our Heritage of Health website.