Gardening - How to Store Your Own Seeds For Next Year
One of the most terrific things about maintaining your own garden at home is that it is entirely self-renewing. Once you have purchased seeds once, there is no need for you to ever spend money on seeds again. All you need to do is remove seeds from some of your harvested flowers, fruits, and vegetables, and plant these very seeds the next year. Here is your guide to harvesting and storing seeds from your garden to plant the next year: (1) Start with quality seeds- Yes, it is true that once you have planted a garden, you will never have to buy seeds again. However, you must start somewhere, right? It is integral that when you purchase seeds for the first time, you buy quality heirloom open pollinated seeds. The reason this is so crucial is because most seeds that you buy from a seed catalog or in your local garden store have been hybridized. Hybrid seeds are common because they have been bred in order to possess certain qualities, such as frost resistance in tomatoes. However, if y...