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Seed Saving Tips for the home Gardener
14.12.2023 - 15:31 / seattleurbanfarmco.com
Seed saving is the art of collecting the seed from your crop and using it in subsequent seasons to grow new plants. Even if you save only small quantities of a few crops, understanding more about the life cycle, breeding tendencies, and botany of your crops will help you manage and care for them more effectively.
Only open pollinated crops will produce seed that is viable and that breeds true to itself. Breeding true means that the plants grown from your collected seed will produce a crop with similar traits (growth habit, disease resistance, taste, etc.) to the parent plant. Even with open pollinated crops, to keep the traits you want, you’ll need to learn about their genetics and how to separate flowering crops by time and distance in the garden.
In general, plants that are grown for their flower, seed, or fruit will be easier to manage as a seed saving crop. If you want to collect seed from crops that are grown for their roots, stems or leaves, the plants must be left in the garden past their typical harvest period so that they can continue to grow, flower, and produce seeds. These crops may triple or quadruple in size by the time a seed crop is produced, so must be given wider spacing in the garden. As they send up flower stalks, support and staking may be necessary to keep them upright to maintain good airflow and minimize pests and diseases.
Seed saving strategies are specific to the species you’re working with, so if you plan to delve deep into the world of seed saving and breeding, we highly recommend picking up a few of the books on the subject. While you’re here, let’s dive a little deeper into the basic concepts of seed saving and plant breeding.
If you are saving seed with the goal of preserving the varietal
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