Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening podcast in today's episode my

favorite epic gardening question submitter Phil Koster has another question for

me surprise surprise all love. All love, he says, I was hoping you could touch on some seed saving techniques for strawberries.

Maybe you could get specific on some of the trickier or harder fruits or vegetables to get seeds from.

So that's a great idea and we are going to start with strawberries.

So specifically, let's say you have some strawberries that you picked from your yard.

Maybe one's a little rotten, you don't necessarily want to eat it,

but you want to figure out how to save the seeds and how to maybe use those seeds

to grow a new strawberry plant.

Strawberries are interesting because they're one of the few fruits that just put their seeds right on the outside instead of hiding and protecting them on the inside of the fruit.

That's part of the reason why strawberries look so

interesting to me and I think to everyone else, but it's also a bit of a challenge.

How do you get those seeds correctly off of your strawberry? So there are many different ways.

Honestly, if you wanted to go a bit simple, you could just plant the entire fruit.

Remember, in nature, strawberry would propagate by the fruit falling off, rotting, and germinating

straight from that rotted fruit or perhaps being eaten by an animal and then digested,

but the seeds would not be digested,

and then those seeds would be excreted into the ground

and then germinate from there.

So again, it's not rocket science.

Nature has figured out how to do this on its own. So here is what you should do. Now a lot of people

who are trying to save strawberry seeds will go wrong because they will store or try to dry them in an area that's too moist.

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