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Saving Carrot Seeds

Saving Carrot Seeds

Carrots are fun to grow at home and if you're lucky, some of them will bolt to seed at the end of the season. Then, if you grew an heirloom…

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Saving Poppy Seeds

Saving Poppy Seeds

If you've ever considered saving seeds, but have been too afraid to try, start by saving ornamental poppy seeds. Why? Saving poppy seeds is practically labor-free, is incredibly easy, and…

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Saving Kale Seeds

Saving Kale Seeds

Most gardeners are lucky if their kale plants last through the summer. We’ve been blessed with a Lacinato kale that has been growing for over a
year and a half. It’s a magic plant; it survived cut worms, it resisted powdery mildew, and it never, ever got aphids. We’re definitely saving seeds from this plant.

Now over 10 feet tall, and listing to one side, the time has come to pull the plant (before it decapitates someone when it falls). …

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Saving Tomato Seeds – Not So Terrifying

Saving Tomato Seeds – Not So Terrifying

It’s January, and one might assume that tomato seed-saving should have happened in …oh…September, but when one puts a couple of tomatoes in
a Snaplock container in the refrigerator, way in the back, and is afraid to attempt to save the seeds for the first time, January is a good time to get over the fear. Thus we begin our
adventure in saving tomato seeds.

It presents itself as a task …

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Saving Arugula Seeds

A new question came in on the wire this week:

“My crop of arugula has bolted / flowered. How do I get the seeds so I can store them and plant again next fall?”

I have fond memories of saving arugula seeds – my first seed-saving experience, in fact.  It’s about as easy as it gets when it comes to seed-saving.  Here’s how it works:

Your arugula will send up little white flowers with dark veins.  It sounds like this part has already happened.  Then little seed pods will form along the stem.  These can be
eaten fresh but beware, they are very spicy …

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