Saving Garden Seeds

In this day and time, it might be a wise thing to collect and save seeds to plant for next year’s garden planting time. And also to save every year for next year and so on.

The first thing is to always but seeded watermelons’ like old times the vegetables and fruit that still have the seeds in them. If you store them in little freezer bags into one large freezer bag’ you can always find them in the deep freezer later on when you need them.

So as you eat the fruit or vegetable please save your seed and try to wash out most of the pulp by using a sieve. But do leave some pulp in. Now take a little tiny bowl and add seed and cover with water and add a small spray of watered down bleach to this.Sit in the kitchen window sill so you don’t forget about them for 2 days.

Next drain off water and set back in window sill to dry out. The bleach makes the seed more bug resistant at planting time next year! Then put in tiny sandwich baggies and label and date each bag. Only save the very best tasting(seeds). Now store in gallon size freezer bag until next year at planting time.

I have been doing this for more years than I can count! And you can also do this and grow the very best. If you get a great tasting tomato from the store or produce truck etc. Be sure to save the seeds this way for next year’s bounty! I grew my tomatoes from a store package this year but they are Rutgers some of the very best tasting tomatoes out there that is if I can fight the bugs off of them. They are tough this year. So I am embarrassed to show these tomato plants from seed in my apartment garden but I will.

I so miss having land with 3 gardens going at once! But I still love to garden. Here are my skimpy plants as I have had to de-leaf bug damage so many times. But I have Diazenous Earth sprinkled lightly on them for now. It is safe for vegetables.