How Do You Save Seeds From Vegetables & Squash?
Harvesting seeds from garden plants grown one year can save money when it comes time to purchase seeds for planting the following year. Harvesting and saving seeds from squash and other vegetables is relatively easy to do, but there are a few things to remember. Harvest seeds from only heirloom plants. Most garden vegetable seeds and starter plants are hybrids. These are created to produce large, tasty fruit and are generally fairly successful in personal gardens. The problem is that when hybrids reproduce with one another, their seeds are inferior and incapable of producing large, tasty fruit, or sometimes any fruit at all. Therefore, harvest seeds from heirloom or open-pollinated plants and avoid those from “hybrid” or “cultivated” plants. Avoid harvesting seeds from vegetables in a supermarket or grocery store because these most certainly come from hybrid seeds. Allow the vegetable to become fully ripe before attempting to harvest seeds. Underripe vegetables contain seeds that are n
