Property News · October 22, 2016

How to save vegetable seeds for next year | Alys Fowler


Serious seed-saving requires more than just harvesting – but why not try it? You may even get some surprises, says Alys FowlerIimagine that your summer vegetables are in tatters, slowly rotting back from where they came. However, there is one last dance to steal before the month is out: collect any seed that has ripened and save it for next year.Serious seed-saving requires more than just harvesting. It may, in the case of biennial vegetables, root crops and the like, require allowing plants to grow for another year. Or isolating varieties so they don’t cross-pollinate with others, as well as roguing out – removing any plants that are weaker or not true to their varietal type. (I have two well-thumbed bibles on the subject in my bookcase: Back Garden Seed Saving by Sue Stickland and The Seeds Of Kokopelli by Dominique Guillet.) Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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