125-Saving Seeds: The Basics, the Benefits and Beyond
The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l
Joe Lamp'l
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Do you save seeds? These days, more and more gardeners are interested in keeping seeds from the plants in their garden, but it’s a process that can be intimidating. For this week’s episode, I invited Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance and master seed saver, Bill McDorman, to share his expertise for anyone interested in saving seeds.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover |
| 0:08.7 | everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.1 | And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, |
| 0:18.5 | Joe Lample. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everybody, it's Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner |
| 0:23.4 | Show. |
| 0:24.4 | Today, it's an episode on seed saving, but not just seed saving. |
| 0:29.4 | Definitely, there's a good bit of discussion around that. |
| 0:32.6 | It could have been an entire episode, but the challenge is we've got a guest today who |
| 0:38.2 | is very knowledgeable about not only saving seed, but the origin of seed, the diversity |
| 0:43.4 | of seed, the future of seed. |
| 0:45.4 | You name it, this is a guy who has a lot to say. |
| 0:48.3 | We could have talked for hours on any one of those topics, but we put our discussion into |
| 0:52.8 | less than an hour, and there's a lot of information here. |
| 0:56.4 | So who is our guest today? |
| 0:57.7 | Well, it's Bill McDorman. |
| 0:59.6 | Bill is the executive director of the Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance. |
| 1:02.7 | He's a master seed saver. |
| 1:04.3 | He's written a booklet called Basic Seed Saving, which I love because it just distills it all |
| 1:09.1 | down to some simple, basic information. |
| 1:11.8 | He covers a lot of different types of seeds that you could be saving and how to do it. |
| 1:16.2 | But if that's not enough for you and you really want to go in the other direction, he's |
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