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Using seeds from your own plants connects you with the earth’s natural cycles, and many gardeners find this activity rewarding, especially as it helps to preserve heirloom varieties and promotes genetic diversity.
In this video we show how to choose which plants you should save seeds from, and demonstrate ways to harvest and prepare your seeds so that they have the best chance of germinating when sown.
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You mention that squash and melon seeds are tricky to save because they cross-pollinate easily. Whereas you say tomatoes and peppers are easy to save, but I've also heard they cross-pollinate a lot too. What has been your experience? If I'm growing more than one variety in my garden, do I need to worry about cross-pollination?
Great work. Thanks for taking the time to create this video. Nice method for Tom seed saving. Love the seed disc idea. Very cool
good vid!
Hi, Great video, thanks! Also, you mentioned cutting paper towels and drying the seeds on it, for planting, do you have a video of what you would end up doing with the cut up paper towel with seed in it, what size pot did you use, looked like 5 inch….do you sell seed?
@jamaicarose1 – You're right that tomatoes can also suffer from cross pollination, there are a few techniques you can use to try and avoid this:
– Pollinate the flowers yourself by shaking the plant gently, the pollen within the flowers will transfer onto the stigmas and fertilise them
– Protect the flowers with a physical barrier
– Grow plants at a time when other tomatoes are not blooming or insects are not present
– Maintain isolation distance between the varieties.
Scott, you can choose which size pot you use to start off tomatoes and therefore what size the paper towels should be. I have often used 3" pots, and then potted them up to 5" as they get larger, or you can use 5" to start with as shown in the video.
the bean seeds I saved last year got full of bugs, Ive heard to put them in the freezer for a few weeks. Do you recommend that?
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