I've saved seed for years -easy stuff like, cilantro, sunflowers and marigolds - but this year I am branching out. I hope to save kale, chard, tomato, pea, spinach and lettuce seed this year.
This is my kale patch. Kale is a bi-annual plant. It takes 2 years for it to bear seed. Usually our winters do a number on kale and it never comes back, but this year it overwintered and I've got an abundance of seed pods :)
I clipped them off and put them in a bucket. Then I just stirred them around a bit.
Can you see all the black kale seed at the bottom of this bucket? It's way more than I will be able to use next year! It came off a blue curled variety, but I've got another variety that isn't quite so curled that has gone to seed this year too so the offspring will probably be a mix. We will see! I've already replanted some of it. Should know what I've got by this fall.
God Bless You All!
~Grama Sue
~Grama Sue
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