Learning to Save Seeds

Use the links below to learn about saving seeds from your own garden. Home-saved seeds make a wonderful gift and can be traded for seeds of other gardeners, helping you to obtain a large collection of seeds to Winter Sow.

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Learn to Save Seeds of your garden favorites.

How do you store seeds? There are lots of wonderful ways!
Saving Seeds
Culling
Deadheading
A CD Rom storage unit for the wall holds packs of seeds inside vinyl pockets.
Chaff
Seed Storage
Paper or Plastic

We'll show you how! Visit the Seed Storage Gallery.
Tip suggests these links for more study.

Vegetables and Fruits
A Guide to Heirloom Varieties and Community-Based Stewardship
Compiled by Suzanne P. Demuth
Fact Sheet ~ Seed Collecting
Gardening Australia ~ ABC.Net.Au
Public Seed Initiative
Plant Breeding ~ Cornell University
Seed Saver ~ Information and Links
Rare Forms by Amy Goldman

Basic Seed Saving
International Seed Saving Institute

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