Seed Saving Part 1





Seed saving is simply collecting seeds for the purpose of replanting them. Seeds are collected from already grown plants that have gone to seed. Gone to seed is agricultural lingo for letting your plant produce flowers, begin to lose their petals, and produce seeds. 


Letting your plant go to seed should only be encouraged after you have harvested all the edible parts you desire. Once a plant starts flowering, its energy becomes more focused on growing those flowers, and if that process remains undisturbed, it will begin to produce seeds. 


Saving seeds was a way of allowing the regrowing of plants with desirable qualities. For home gardeners, it will enable you to build a seed collection of plants with various desirable qualities previously grown in your garden. 


If you have a small garden with only a few of each type of plant, an excellent place to start would be to assign one of your plants as your seed-saving plant. You can leave that one to seed and then save your seeds. 


This is a brief introduction to seed saving. 


Happy Gardening!


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