In my continued attempt to save seeds, I am grateful that the warm (hot) weather has helped the overwintered veggies complete their cycle as well provided the perfect environment for the peppers and tomatoes to ripen. Enter a few of my favorite little promise keepers (as in, there’s so much promise kept with each tiny little seed)!
Happy Hot Peppers…
Beets (Early)…
Kale (Red Russian)…
Yellow Taxi Tomatoes…
I won’t pretend my methods of seed saving are perfect and am sure that some of my seeds have cross pollinated over the past couple of years, but the process is incredibly fulfilling and very exciting. Taking a vegetable from seed to plant to fruit to seed again is just wonderful! And hey, as long as they’re edible, I don’t mind a couple of Frankenstein veggies in the yard 😉
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That’s wonderful! We started saving seeds this year. So far we’ve saved spinach and I’m trying to harvest some romaine seeds right now. Nice work!
Nice! I haven’t saved any spinach seed yet, though it’s on my list! We saved a ton of mixed lettuce seed last year, though…it’s amazing how many seeds a few plants can produce!
@ Bee Girl: good on you for saving seeds! I really need to get on it too.
@ Jeanette: I had a similar experience this year, except that what I got from the several volunteer tomato plants that came up last winter(!) and are now producing is not like anything I have planted in our yard during the three years that we have lived here. I wonder if a bird brought some seeds over from the neighbors’ plants, or if something cross-pollinated with the big, overgrown plant that used to be where the corps of volunteers are now, which was an heirloom Azoychka tomato….
I had a bunch of tomato plants that popped up this year where a large overgrown plant was last year. It wasn’t intentional seed-saving, but it sure was cool!
Ooohhh…volunteers are the best! I wish I had more space for them 😉