With a little bit of planning ahead now, you can work toward ensuring a larger harvest in your fruit or vegetable garden next year all by following one simple trick: letting fruits and vegetables grow larger and longer and then saving their seeds.
«Bigger fruits often have better-developed seeds, leading to improved germination and healthier, more resilient plants when you plant them the next year,» Teri Valenzuela, natural science manager at Sunday Lawn Care, says. «This can result in a bigger and more abundant harvest, thanks to the enhanced genetic strength of those fully matured seeds.»
Below, two gardening experts weigh in with key insights on what to keep in mind when it comes to determining when to remove the seeds from your fruits and vegetables and share the benefits of saving such seeds. They also provide tips on what to avoid when saving seeds from fruits and vegetables as well as drawbacks associated with this particular gardening practice.
In order to feel confident that you're taking the seeds from a plant at its most optimal point, you will want to be patient and not trim it too early on in the season. Kathi Rodgers, an organic gardener who is the founder of the blog Oak Hill Homestead, recommends leaving the veggie or fruit on the plant or on the vine until it's completely ripe or even overripe. This will allow the inside seeds to fully mature.
«Patience is key when you're saving seeds—let that veggie mature completely and don't be in a hurry to harvest it,» Rodgers says.
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