How Many Grapes Keep Seed..?

[braders]

Evenin All

Me again...been thinking about this today, whilst potting up and other things..I wonder how many of us / you keep their seed, year after year and if so what types..?..I am very interested to know. Below is a good link for saving Tom seeds.

Saving Tomato Seeds - Seed Saving for Next Year's Tomato Crop

Cheers
braders...

[Jardiniere]

i saved the following last year
marigolds (pot)
cornflowers
nasturtium
nigella
beans (runner, ordinary haricot and cobra)
sunflower
melon
courgette
now just waiting to see what will grow
last year my saved beans came up fine as did the nasturtiums..oh and gladioli corms (does that count?)

[selfraising]

Hi Braders, I would like to have a go at this but don't know how you go about it.

[Duronal]

I've kept

tomato seed,
TPS
Runner beans
Peas
Corn
Squash
and a bunch of flower varieties
I'm hoping to keep some brassica, cabbages,broccoli and mizuna this year too.

Here's hoping my plan go well!

[braders]

Hi Braders, I would like to have a go at this but don't know how you go about it.

Hi
This is a start...plenty of websites out there with plenty of advice.

http://www.wvu.edu/~Agexten/hortcult...d/seedsavr.htm

[Duronal]

There's a whole section at the botom left of this page that covers seed saving.

Great Vegetable Seeds from The Real Seed Catalogue

[coreopsis]

I'm going to save some seeds this year,mainly the veg ones.If you have a look at Great Vegetable Seeds from The Real Seed Catalogue you'll find some useful info how to save your own.

[selfraising]

Oh thanks guys, am going to check these sites out

[RedThorn]

Kept gem squash, sunflower, dwarf bean and chilli seeds from last year. Hopeing to keep loads more this year. Good luck

[braders]

Oh thanks guys, am going to check these sites out

See attached...hope it works..?..its a zip file for those who dont know, so you need winzip.

Cheers
braders...

[Two_Sheds]

I think the only seeds that I now buy are carrots, parsnips, sweetcorn & brassicas.
I save everything else from my own plants (even spuds, although I buy different ones to try each year)

[maytreefrannie]

Last year I saved tomatoes and peas.

Tomato plants making very slow progress.

Only one pea plant germinated so far, after several weeks.

[Eyren]

I saved peas last year, and would have saved more if the crops had been better. For now I'm concentrating on vegatative reproducers such as garlic and self-fertilising plants - peas, French beans, tomatoes - as I don't have the space to isolate cross-breeding varieties. Perhaps in future I'll graduate to the trickier stuff!

[gojiberry]

I don't go out of my way to save seed as I always seem to have enough packet stuff. For instance I have sown all my carrots for this year and still have at least 6 unopened packets in the seed box, which will be more than enough for next year. I purchased a pint of feltham first peas for £1:20 and there is enough for at least 3 years. So generally I don't go out of my way to save seeds. However when I take the bean sticks down I can't bring myself to throw away the seed left on the plants.

Ian

[TonyF]

As many of the regulars on here will knowm, I'm an obsessive seed saver and also involved in several of the seed saving/guardian schemes - lots of good advice on the Garden Organic and RHS sites btw.

I keep anything that I can and usually let one or two plants that I 'specialise' in run to seed so I can get a crop the following year - hence the reason I never grow F1 or even F2 varieties.

ATM, I have trays of squashes and tomatoes germinated from last year's seeds, loads of French climbers and dwarfs coming through, all in all, a good way of saving seeds/saving money.