Tips on Seed Saving Basics for Beginners and Beyond
This only means that we will start with the basics; the easiest seeds and the easiest seed-saving techniques.
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There are many good reasons to save your own seeds. Cost is one of them.
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Like tomatoes and lettuce, peppers are self-pollinated with a low chance of cross-pollination, so they are one of the easiest plants to save seed from.
The problem with natural cross pollination and hybridization is that the resulting seeds and plants are unreliable.
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In the beginning, choose the easier plants to save seed from and that are easy to collect and prep for storage. Beans are a perfect candidate!
Most herb seeds can be easily saved. The seeds are tiny, though, so bagging the drying heads is recommended.
Even on frost-stricken plants you can often find good seed-saving candidates
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Use whatever means of threshing (removing seeds) works best for you.
Some seeds, like tomatoes, are naturally gel-coated and will need the jelly-like coating removed.
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The easy way to manage naturally-occurring genetic depression is to save seeds from several plants or more than one of each fruit or vegetable.