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    Hello every one, My user name is efiLdooG, just happened to stumble upon this great site looking for information on potato seeds that have come up on my potatoes. I am wanting to save seeds out of my garden this year, have not done so in the past but want to do it this year. I have many tomatoes planted and okra, 4 kinds of beans, all bush. Yellow squash, zucchini, patty pan squash, bulb onions. peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, carrots and potatoes. Also I have tried to plant lima beans only to have ants carry them off as soon as they germinate. Any ideas how I can deter them? Also my onion bulbs, some of them have toppled tops, should I leave them or pull them up and use them. This is really a great site and I will love investigating all the fun articles. Thank you.:

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    potato seeds ie the little green tomato-like fruit which sometimes grow on top of the potato plant are a pretty specialised subject, as almost everybody grows potatoes from small ones saved from the previous year ie not true seeds - I'd suggest extensive googling to find a site with dedicated info is your best bet on that.
    Lima bean carrying ants is outside my experience but at a guess would it be possible to sow them paired with a more robust seed like a broad-bean, which if they germinated together would anchor them in the ground ? the unwanted companion could be nipped out later.

    Yes to taking up the toppled onions first, when you want to use them - no rush, but they wont grow on as much as their un-toppled brethren.
    Last edited by nickdub; 08-05-2018, 03:26 PM.

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