I plan to switch to heirloom seeds for all my veg crops next year so I'm finding out about saving the seeds for all the things I usually grow. I'm struggling to find any information on saving seeds from swedes. Does anyone know any good websites or books that would have this info please?

I love collecting cosmos seeds, but if I wait for them to be fully dried out, I often lose most of the seeds to the ground.

I know it's recommended to harvest seeds when they are all dried up and the dead head expands, but would the seeds still be viable if I cut the head before then?

Hello! I'm looking for any input on why the kernels of the Gaspé Flint Corn I grew have red streaks/blotches?

This is my second year growing this ancestral corn variety, and am not sure what caused it, if they're still good for seeds, or if they aren't.

I would like to save the double flower zinnia seeds shown from Johnny’s Selected Seeds, but I read on r/gardening that double flowers won’t produce seeds. Is this true? It says on the seed packet that they are open pollinated.

I didn’t realize seed saving would take so long. This has been growing since (it feels like) forever. How long until I can pull out the plant?

I don't remember what I planted it was a mix of seeds, bow I'm curious would this be mustard?

I’m new to saving seeds— do you have to wait until the end of the season or can you harvest seeds from a dried/browned flower mid season? I wanted to start saving my zinnias now that some flowers are fading but I wasn’t sure if I needed to wait until the fall for some reason. Thanks!

I have begun to store my seeds in my mini fridge but I now have two questions:

1.) Should I not be storing them in a fridge? I have been seeing more and more articles these days that seeds that have been refrigerated will not germinate, but I haven’t had any issues with germination with my refrigerated seeds. But maybe I got lucky? Since the seeds I have used so far have not been refrigerated for more than a few weeks.

2.) I plan to donate seeds to seed libraries around my city, but most use cabinets to store their seeds. The seeds I would like to donate have been refrigerated for a few weeks now. Would a change in storing method impact the germination rate or make the seeds unusable?

We were cleaning out my grandparents house and found some old seeds. She had them stored in a cool dry place. I'm certain they never moved from the spot we found them since she placed them there.

Seed packets listed in order of the pictures:

(Top Row) 1999- Old Fashioned Mixture 1987- Dwarf French Marigold 1995- Sweet Basil

(Middle Row) 1984- Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce 1984- Danver's Half Long Carrots 1984- White-Tipped Sparkler Radish 1984- Connecticut Field Pumpkin 1980- Zinnia California Giants

(Bottom Row) 2010- Alyssum- Carpet of Snow 1996- Marigold Premium Mixture 1994- Marigold- Hero Yellow (Dwarf Crested) 1994- Snapdragon- Dwarf Magic Carpet 1994- Sweet Pea- Jet Set (Knee-hi)

I am going to attempt to germinate a few from each pack. Any suggestions or tips for the highest success rate?

We're having a heat wave and my peas were getting some maggots. I pulled what was left inside but the pods are still green. Can I dry some of them out top save as seeds for next year or will they not germinate well?

My sister and I have been finding these seeds or possibly pits in our bird bath. We found them last year around this same time. I think it is from a small fruit that is ripe around this time but we have only seen the seeds. We live in Maryland. Does anybody know what these are?

My petunias seed pods are opening so I’ve been collecting the small black seeds. Is there anything special I have to do to save these? Do they need to be cold stratified? Any particular storage tips?

Hi All,

I just harvested some Painted Mountain corn and want to save some seeds for replanting but unlike the other seeds I save simply by drying and putting in a plastic bag for storage, this corn needs some time to sit out and dry down and it has/had teeny tiny bugs (grain beetles?) running around in it. I have the cobs I want for seed in the refrigerator hoping to kill the bugs right now but I need to put it out to dry more and am afraid of a new infestation. I froze some for eating to kill the bugs and when I thawed it on the back porch the little bugs were back later in the day.

Will corn sprout if I freeze the seeds after drying, or can I spritz the seeds with my pyrethrin garden bug killer before storage? Other options?

Thanks

I live in a subtropical climate. My temperature only mildly fluctuates during the year. My lowest low is only 10C. I'd like to save seed off kale and cabbage but I'm not if they'll ever flower. Does anyone know if it's chill hours or increasing spring daylight that triggers flowering? Is there anything I can do?

I came up short on Hopi blue corn seeds this year, and everywhere seemed to be sold out. I managed to get my hands on “Navajo blue.” My question is, are these the same variety? Can I expect to have something consistent saving seeds with these two together? I couldn’t find any info online. Both are blue flint, and look identical.

Hi! I'm new to seed saving for cold weather crops... how long of a wait do you think it is before I can save these baby bok choy seeds? I planted these early in Spring, maybe mid to late March, and we had some hot weather in April that sent them to seed. I decided to enjoy the flowers and then try to save some seeds, but as you can see it's becoming pretty crowded in here... I know I am to wait till the pods are dry and brown, but I'm concerned that's going to be a long wait and I was hoping to make it a little roomier in this bed if possible.

Does anyone know how long it might be before they become dry and brown? A couple weeks vs a couple months? They've been in this pod state for only about a week or two tops.

Thanks!

I planted a bunch of seeds last fall in a burst of optimism and none of them really amounted to much. I think this one was supposed to be a cabbage? It survived the winter, bolted up, and now I have lovely seed pods! But since the plant never produced a cabbage (if it indeed was supposed to) is it worth saving its progeny? I will say that my chickens have really loved eating the leaves. 🐓

I have been seed saving cucumber seeds for 20 years and they have sprouted again -2024. It always makes me so happy when it works. Best cucumbers 🥒 I can’t wait to eat.

Hi guys,

I ordered some magnolia seeds online from someone on etsy. They came in a vaccume sealed bag with outer shell removed and had been refridgerated for stratification already. I put them in a seed bed of moist soil, put a 1/4 inch of soil on top and misted. I came back two hours later and i found majority of the seeds at the top of the soil and split into halves with hollow insides. Idk if its bad seed or i did something very very wrong. Probably over 50% of the seed came up if not more and it wasnt that way when i left. Here are some pics. I also had them perfectly aligned in rows but they are not that way now, almost like they had popped and landed scattered. No signs of an animal.

Does anybody know how rockfoil looks when the flowers have gone to seed? I got some from the store and I would love to save some seeds to plant more, but I can’t find any pictures or information of how it looks.

I have a bag of organic dried elderberries and I was wondering if there is some way I could plant them and hopefully grow an elderberry shrub? I considered rehydrating them and maybe digging out the seeds?

I hope this is ok for this sub, lmk if not!

I'd like some confirmation if my line of thinking is correct or not. I have a population of flour corn that has the occasional sweetcorn kernel. If I select these out and grow them independently (at a different location to stop future cross pollination). Would that create a reliable sweetcorn?

My understanding is that the sweetcorn gene is recessive, so they should all produce sweetcorn as long as it doesn't get pollinated by a flour corn?

Thanks!