Saving Your Own Seeds

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

If you’re looking to get a bit more resilient in your gardening, saving seeds is a fantastic way to start. Learn how Richard saves for his company. Connect With Richard Kuehnel: Richard Kuehnel is the owner of Small Island Seed Co, where they specialize in rare, unusual, cold-hardy vegetable and herb crops. Buy Richard’s Seeds on Etsy Small Island Seed Co on Instagram Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast, my friends.
0:15.8	I hope you're doing well.
0:17.2	Today we are going to be discussing saving your own seeds and really kind of diving into
0:22.4	how Richard Cannell, who's the guest for today's show, does it at Small Island Seed Company?
0:28.1	I looked your Etsy store up Richard before we got on the call and you've got quite a few
0:35.0	different varieties that you sell and I mean it looks like you've sold over 10,000 orders
0:41.0	worth of seeds.
0:42.0	So you've done your fair share of saving and I think it'd be really curious to hear how
0:48.6	you do that with all these different varieties like what's your process like and kind of
0:53.0	give us a little background.
0:54.7	Yeah, there's so many different kinds of varieties and many of them have different methods
0:59.3	of seed saving.
1:00.7	Some of them are easy and some of them are very difficult if not super tedious and draining.
1:08.9	One of them in particular is Ricardia Picroydus, that really delicious salad green in the
1:14.0	astrophamily.
1:15.0	I was harvesting those consistently for three months every single day, you know, 15, 20 minutes
1:21.6	a day because when those, you know, how the astors, they poof up, you get those fluffs.
1:27.4	Well, they're very, very fragile and the slightest knock on the plant will shed them all loose.
1:33.5	So actually my friend had the idea to use a dust buster and that's how I'm going to do
1:36.6	in the future.
1:37.6	That makes sense.
1:38.6	But then you have to separate the seed from all the fluff and that takes time, it takes
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