My Top 5 Easiest Crops To Save Your Own Seed From! Growing your own food is a path to self sufficiency. Saving seeds from your own harvests for next years crops? Well that’s NEXT LEVEL self sufficiency!
In today’s Quickie, we’ll look at the 5 crops I always save seeds from. These crops are ideal to collect a few hundred (or thousand) seeds for saving for the following season. This one goes by fast, so maybe watch it twice! 🙂
Other Seed Saving Videos Of Interest:
Saving Tomato Seeds: https://youtu.be/Epq0B8tvit4
Saving Pepper Seeds: https://youtu.be/mTuvamsAWU0
Saving Lettuce Seeds: https://youtu.be/Z3cRlmIWxB4
Saving Pea Seeds: https://youtu.be/BoSwz9588Q0
Saving Green Onion Seeds: https://youtu.be/fGDuWmD9an0
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Garlic Spacing Experiment: https://youtu.be/tlXJA7w4JNw
How To Grow Strawberries!: https://youtu.be/T6-s7NomNTY
Fertilizing Strawberries: https://youtu.be/vZdsdcWCdOw
How To Grow Garlic: https://youtu.be/UgbWxSqpqws
Baking Soda Aphid and Insect Spray: https://youtu.be/320D-41xt-M
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Direct Seeding vs Starter Plant: https://youtu.be/TQWWtQu-r9U
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Seed Starting Soil: https://youtu.be/OlLHCtHI6JY
Seed Starting 101, The Basics!: https://youtu.be/bRWac1OpxPY
Starting Tomato Seeds: https://youtu.be/qlEp0iDfB-k
Starting Pepper Seeds: https://youtu.be/mNqS1FpPWW8
Starting Cucumber Seeds: https://youtu.be/7aWeBavfubE
Starting Zucchini Seeds: https://youtu.be/LgHKLftASTQ
Starting Corn Seeds: https://youtu.be/2t2A2ZrdZ3k
Starting Pumpkin Seeds: https://youtu.be/kT_WR0e2EjI
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I have a question. I have read that if you leave some things on the plant until they are over ripe, the plant will think it is done for the season and will begin to die. Is this true?
I’m loving these garden quickies! They’re super informative and interesting little reminders to stop and smell the roses (or fruit), and grow something wonderful. They really do make my day. Thanks!!
And I often are leave the seeds in there too long, I guess. How do you know when to say when?‘s like for the onion you said when it falls over; are there any other telltale signs of the best mature time to pick to seed?
My neighbor has his own backyard garden, and for whatever reason I would sometimes see corn and tomato vines growing underneath my bushes. I would usually just let them grow and so I could get fresh corn and tomatoes
Seed saving information is what brought me here at the start. Love this channel!
I'm struggling with green onions even growing, let alone getting to the point where I can save seeds! LOL But I'm definitely saving seeds from the rest this year. It'll be the first time I save seeds from my lettuce but it does look super easy.
And don't forget to save seeds for flowers*….you need pollinators as much as they need your flowering plants. Set out some water, changing it every couple days, & you'll deter birds from pecking your tomatoes searching for a drink. Has anyone ever seen with their own eyes a *Hummingbird Moth? I just saw a video from another underappreciated channel & now this magical creature's on my bug sighting bucket list. Cheers, ~ Covah……I'll add its link in comments.
I'm having a problem with some seeds. The arugula, collared and brussel sprouts seeds have been infected with some type of bug or disease. They go dark and insides are moldy looking a greyblack color. Any suggestions ?
plants FTW!
Pepers are super easy. I accidentally left a fruit outside where it dried out. The seeds ended up becoming the best for resowing. So it was nice to know I don't have to left the fruit on the plant to dry. Just be careful with wildlife
Please make a video of strawberries from seeds. Do they need to be freeze
Adds green onions to my list of plants to try growing
I have just let a plant of bok choi go to seed. It does not take very long to seed, produces so many seeds, and the bees etc love it. And it looks pretty too.
Thanks so much!
thanks Jeff
Radish is another fun, easy, abundant one to harvest seed from.
I would add spaghetti squash. Take one of the squashes that stored the longest and save the seeds from that one! So easy!
Thanks for this – something I want to do more of although it seems complex in smaller spaces with some things that cross-pollinate easily. Nice to know I can try the lettuce that’s bolted, I didn’t read yet they are mostly self-pollinating.