30: Free Produce! Seed Saving for the Hobby Gardener
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Even a hobby gardener can benefit from seed saving. In this episode, you'll learn:
- Which seeds you cannot save (this is HUGE)
- How to save seeds with ZERO effort (yes, literally)
- The easiest vegetables from which to save seeds, and how
- The one step many fruiting vegetables require to save their seeds
You'll learn how to save seeds from tomatoes, squash, melons, lettuce, herbs, okra, and more!
Show notes: http://journeywithjill.net/2017/08/free-produce-seed-saving-hobby-gardener-beginners-garden-podcast/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net, |
| 0:06.0 | and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the talking about how to get free produce from your garden, and that comes from seed |
| 0:38.9 | saving. First, I want to apologize to you. If you notice, my voice is a little bit scratchy. |
| 0:44.5 | School just started for my kids, and I believe that my daughter brought me home a cold, |
| 0:48.6 | and if this cold is like the last one I had, I could be losing my voice for a while. |
| 0:53.6 | And I definitely want to bring you these episodes every two weeks in the fall, like I had, I could be losing my voice for a while. And I definitely want to bring you |
| 0:55.0 | these episodes every two weeks in the fall like I had talked about last week. So if you'll bear |
| 1:00.3 | with me, then we'll be able to talk about seed saving. I know a lot of you guys, your gardens |
| 1:05.1 | are starting to wind down and you're starting to think little thoughts about next season. I mean, you may not have |
| 1:12.1 | gone there completely. I know one guy on my Instagram, I noticed that he's like, I don't want |
| 1:17.5 | a garden anymore. And I know it's easy to get that way this time of year, but it also is a |
| 1:23.0 | fun time to start thinking about next season's garden. There are a lot of resources online when it |
| 1:29.7 | comes to seed saving. And a lot of those resources you'll find are from full-time homesteaders or |
| 1:36.5 | part-time homesteaders or people that are just really plunging headlong into the self-reliant |
| 1:42.7 | lifestyle. And let me tell you, I'm all about that. I just can't do that. |
| 1:48.5 | We just don't have time to be able to do that. We don't have all the resources to do that. |
| 1:52.4 | And to be honest, I think a lot of you guys are in the same boat. You would love to be self-reliant, |
| 1:58.0 | and you would love to be homesteaders even but that's just not reality but that |
| 2:02.8 | doesn't mean that you can't take some of the things that those people do really well and apply it |
| 2:08.5 | to your context no matter how big or small your garden you can do simple seed saving that will |
| 2:15.1 | save you money in the long run and did I mention free |
| 2:19.1 | produce I mean what's better than that so I'm gonna talk to you on a very basic |
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