Collect Seeds During the Dry Days of Late Summer

A reminder to collect seeds during the dry days of late summer. ☀️

You can save seeds from the following vegetable garden plants:

Beans 🫘
Peas 🫛
Lettuce 🥬
Dill
Parsley
Chives
Arugula 🌱
Basil 🍃
Cilantro/Corriander
Tomatoes 🍅
Peppers 🌶️
Eggplants 🍆
Calendula 🌼
Nasturtium

Hybrid varieties (F1) will not come true, so you won’t get the same fruit/veggie you collected seeds from, but it will likely be similar.

No point saving seeds from things like cucumbers or squash if you haven’t ensured there was no cross pollination — you may end up with something inedible.

Which seeds do you like to collect?

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[Music] This is a reminder that it’s never too early to collect seeds. In the Pacific Northwest, we have wet falls. And so, just as everything, all our seeds are drying out, they’re getting rained on and often get moldy. So, collecting them earlier in the summer while it’s still warm and dry is a good idea. Things like sunflowers will probably have seeds that are ready now. Some of the brassacas that you uh planted in the spring, kale and arugula, will probably have seeds ready now. If you want to collect beans this year, think about letting those mature now. Don’t wait till October to let a few mature. Start letting a few of those mature now so you get nice dry beans to plant for next year. And all the herbs will be having seeds that are drying soon, too. So, never too early to collect seeds.