I love to collect flower seeds from my own flowers to plant the next season or to share with others. I also like to collect from other places, but often found myself using napkins, or scrap paper as an impromptu container. Then it hit me! I started saving prescription bottles and added labels to them to use as collection containers! I keep a few in my car, large purse, and of course at home. Now I'm ready when I'm out and about where I can collect seeds!
Here are the questions asked by community members. Read on to see the answers provided by the ThriftyFun community.
What is the best way to save and store seeds from garden plants, when the harvest is finished?
Hardiness Zone: 1
By Janet McLaurin from Orlando, FL
Save them in a jar after they are dry, good luck.
I save them in envelopes. It's easy to label and store them.
You must store seeds in paper envelopes not plastic anything. It's also a good idea to freeze them for a couple of weeks and then transfer them to the very bottom of your refrigerator and keep them there till you are ready to use them.
I want to plant some peach seeds that I recently acquired, but everyone says to plant them in the fall. So what do I do with the seeds right now?
You can store them in the freezer in a ziplock bag, but really it is not too early to plant them, I would plant them in something like a CoolWhip container or a cottage cheese container. Put a few drainage holes in the bottom and make sure they don't dry out, and they should be sprouted and growing by fall. Then transplant them into the ground. I don't know what area you are in, but here in Arkansas, I had a peach tree that I started from a seed, and unfortunately, the weather never allowed me to reap much of a harvest.
I have already cut my buds off and striped the seeds on a wild sunflower. A bird must have dropped one to get it started. It was easily 8 feet tall with a 13 inch diameter seed bud. I got a bowl full of pretty seeds, like a lot man.
How can I store my seeds till next year to plant and enjoy? I probably should've researched a little before chopping the dang thing off, but I didn't. I'm kinda excited about this, so please respond. Thanks for reading this.
Hardiness Zone: 9a
By Craig Story from Baton Rouge, LA
