Homesaved seed can be stronger growing, from being adapted to your locality and soil. Your own seeds often germinate very strongly too, partly from being super fresh.
There are some key things to know, and I show you the easier vegetables to save seed from. Plus you see some of my results.
Also how to store seed.
00:00 Introduction
00:24 How I saved seed from salad rocket this year - SORRY somehow wrong caption to this because salad rocket is Eruca sativa, while Synapsis alba features later, is the mustard at 18:01
00:54 Comparing results of the homesaved rocket seed with bought seed
01:10 Age of seed – homeasved and bought
01:42 Different needs of different veg for sowing seed, I list the easy ones, then go on to talk about the more difficult ones
02:34 A look at three types of plant being grown for seed, and I explain the process
03:23 For some vegetables you need lots of plants for cross pollination
04:40 Saving seed from onions…
06:26 …beetroot,
07:47 …and carrots, the most difficult of the three because of cross pollination with wild carrot (cow parsley)
08:59 Homesaved potato seed
09:40 Homesaved garlic seed
10:31 I show examples of seed I have saved, and talk about how to store them:
10:40 Lettuce - Grenoble Red and Maravilla de Verano
11:43 Peas - Hurst Greenshaft, Starlight, Tall Sugar and Alderman
12:15 French beans, soybean, Borlotti bean
12:45 Dwarf French bean - Orinoco
13:09 Broad beans - Aquadulce Claudia
13:56 How I dry the seed
14:06 Tomatoes - the difference between F1 hybrid and open pollinated, and the reason not to save seed from hybrid varieties
15:08 Saving seed from flowers
15:27 Melon - Minnesota Midget
16:19 Spinach
16:51 Coriander
17:18 Lambs Lettuce
18:01 Brassica mustard
18:52 Salad rocket
19:44 June the following year, and a look at the beetroot grown from my homesaved seed
Filmed and edited 2021-22 by Edward Dowding https://edowdingfilms.onfabrik.com/portfolio
Thumb photo Emma Kane.
Check out this video from four years ago, on saving seed of the simpler vegetables: https://youtu.be/ZVb9JIAXJxU
And I explain much more about saving seed in this online module course: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/skills-for-growing-online-course-module-2-seeds-sowing-and-planting/
A good book is Back Garden Seed Saving by Sue Stickland 2009, Eco-Logic books
See also Real Seeds website for excellent advice on saving your seedhttps://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedsavinginfo.html
These are nice videos about saving different seeds https://www.youtube.com/c/DIYseeds
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