Wednesday, September 20, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Seize some seeds from the garden
By Kym Pokorny
OSU Extension Service
CORVALLIS – As the gar-
dening season winds down
and you pick the season’s last
vegetables let some plants go
to seed and harvest them for
planting next year.
“Saving seed can be really
fun and is a great way to learn
about plants,” said Weston
Miller, a horticulturist with
Oregon State University
Extension Service. “If you
choose the right types of veg-
etables, you can keep them
going year after year without
buying them again.”
The key to saving seed is
selecting open-pollinated or
heirloom plants, which pro-
duce offspring with the same
traits. Hybrids are bred from
two different varieties for
characteristics like disease
resistance or higher yield and
won’t come “true to type” in
the next generation. Check
seed packets or catalog infor-
mation so that you know
which you are buying.
The easiest crops for sav-
ing seed are annual plants
that self-pollinate like lettuce,
beans, peas, peppers, egg-
plants and tomatoes.
Collect seed from the
healthiest plants and allow
them to dry. Harvest lettuce
seed when the seed coat turns
hard and dark in color. Peas
and beans are ready for har-
vest when the pod dries on
the plant. Pepper seeds are
ready when the fruit is fully
mature and starts to wrinkle.
Tomatoes are a smidgen
more complicated. Allow the
fruit to fully ripen and scoop
the seeds along with the gel
that surrounds them and place
in a jar of water. Allow this
mixture to ferment for up to
five days until the seeds sink
to the bottom. Then dry seeds
on a paper towel.
Seeds from annual herbs
like cilantro (coriander), aru-
gula, and calendula are also
easy to save. In fact, these
annual plants will often self-
seed, so if you let the seeds
mature on the plants and fall
to the ground new plants will
start next year.
Many broccoli family
crops (broccoli, Brussels
sprouts, cauliflower, cab-
bage, collards, kale, mustard
greens) are all part of the
same species and are polli-
nated by insects. Though it is
relatively easy to save seeds
from these biennial crops,
they tend to cross pollinate
easily and you might end up
with new (and sometimes
tasty) traits.
It is more difficult to save
seed from other crops, partic-
ularly in a garden setting. For
example, beets and Swiss
chard are wind pollinated and
cross with each other. These
plants require at least 3,200
feet of isolation to prevent
cross pollination. Similarly,
corn is pollinated by wind,
making it difficult to isolate
without special screening.
Carrots are insect pol-
linated and cross with
Queen Anne’s lace, a com-
mon weed. Summer and
winter squash flowers are
also insect pollinated and
require isolation to main-
tain true varieties. The fruit
grown from cross-pollinated
squash seeds are often bit-
ter tasting, according to
Miller.
Saving seed can be
really fun and is a great
way to learn about plants.
— Weston Miller
Store seeds in tightly-
sealed glass containers in a
cool and dark location. Make
sure that you label seeds
with the type of seed and
the date. A small packet of
silica desiccant or powdered
milk in the jar can help to
remove moisture and keep
the seeds dry. The refrigera-
tor or freezer is also a good
place for storing seeds that
you collect and also seeds
that you buy. Put small seeds
in envelopes and label them.
Place the envelopes in seal-
able freezer bags.
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