LH 167: Tips for saving your backyard food garden seeds
Preserving the flavors of the season doesn't have to stop when that last canning jar lid has "popped."
If you know how to save seed from your own food garden, you are truly self-sufficient and can save your favorite plants to grow, harvest, and repeat again year after year without ever opening a seed catalog.
Saving seed is also a great way to share your garden with others. By saving seed, you can give your favorite flavors and best producers to others by handing them a tiny envelope of potential. What a great gift for a fellow gardener, or a friend thinking about starting their own garden.
In today’s episode, host Theresa Loe interviews author Julie Thomson-Adolf about some of the best ways for us to save our own garden’s potential each year…in seed.
You will learn: The many benefits of saving seed The difference between open-pollinated & hybrid seed What is meant by the word “heirloom” How to dry harvest Why you would want to ferment some seed The best way to dry a “wet” harvest seed Tips for saving seed to prolong viability And SO much more...As always, you can get more free resources at www.LivingHomegrown.com/167 as well as a full transcript of the show.
And you can go to www.LivingHomegrown.com/FRESH to get Theresa's Free Farm Fresh Resource Guide to help you live farm fresh without the farm.
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LH 111: Gardening for Community
LH 110: Beautiful Backyard Bouquets with Herbs and Other Edibles
LH 109: Fermenting Mild to Spicy Hot Condiments
LH 108: Massive Change - Saying Goodbye to a Beloved Garden
LH 107: Making Wildcrafted Cocktails at Home
LH 106: Preserving with Dry Storage and Dehydration
LH 105: Summer Canning Q & A
LH 104: Gardening for the Monarch Butterfly
LH 103: Growing Uncommon Fruits in Your Backyard
LH 102: Transitions - Lessons Learned From Moving a Garden
LH 101: Organic Gardening Q & A
LH 100: Setting Mid-Year Farm Fresh Goals
LH 99: Making the Leap from City Life to Lavender Farmer
LH 98: The Real Dirt Behind Garden Book Publishing - How a book is born
LH 97: How to Grow The Best Blueberries at Home
LH 96: Secrets to Living Farm Fresh
LH 95: How to Grow, Harvest and Arrange Organic Flowers Like a Pro
LH 94: The Magic of Mason Bees - High Yields in Small Gardens
LH 93: Common Garden Plants That You Can Eat
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