Full Course: Seed Harvesting
Summary
TLDRThis educational presentation focuses on the art and benefits of seed harvesting, guiding viewers to identify suitable plants for seed collection, such as tomatoes, peppers, melons, and herbs. It covers the techniques for harvesting, drying, and storing seeds, emphasizing the sustainability aspect, including genetic diversity preservation and self-sufficiency. The speaker shares practical advice on handling seeds of varying difficulty levels, from easy like basil to more challenging ones like carrots, and encourages the audience to embrace seed-saving for a more resilient and eco-friendly gardening practice.
Takeaways
- 🌿 The presenter is a former educator and emphasizes the importance of seed harvesting for sustainability and self-sufficiency.
- 📋 The main objective of the presentation is to teach attendees to identify suitable plants for seed harvesting and the techniques involved.
- 🌱 Seed harvesting contributes to sustainability by preserving genetic diversity, reducing reliance on commercial suppliers, and promoting self-sufficiency.
- 📝 The agenda includes an introduction to seed harvesting, discussion of its benefits, and practical steps for harvesting seeds from various plants.
- 🍅 Tomatoes are highlighted as one of the easiest plants for seed harvesting, with a simple process involving scooping out seeds from ripe tomatoes and drying them.
- 🌶️ Peppers are considered easy to moderate for seed harvesting, requiring the removal of the core and drying the seeds on parchment paper.
- 🍉 Melons, including watermelons, are moderately easy for seed harvesting, with the seeds being rinsed, dried, and stored similarly to other seeds.
- 🥬 Lettuce and spinach are categorized as moderate difficulty for seed harvesting due to their small seed size and the need to allow the plant to fully mature and bolt.
- 🥕 Carrots present a higher difficulty for seed harvesting due to the need to wait for the plant to complete its life cycle and the small size of the seeds.
- 🌼 Harvesting seeds from herbs like basil is straightforward, involving allowing the plant to flower and then collecting the seeds as they dry.
- 📅 The presenter notes the importance of labeling and dating seeds for future planting, as well as understanding the viability period of different seeds.
Q & A
What is the main objective of the seed harvesting presentation?
-The main objective is for participants to be able to identify four fruit, three vegetable, and three herb plants suitable for seed harvesting, describe the difficulty level and proper techniques for harvesting and drying seeds, and explain how seed harvesting contributes to sustainability.
How does seed harvesting contribute to sustainability?
-Seed harvesting contributes to sustainability by preserving genetic diversity, reducing reliance on commercial suppliers, and promoting self-sufficiency.
What is the importance of promoting genetic diversity in seeds?
-Promoting genetic diversity is important as it helps ensure the resilience and adaptability of plant species, which is crucial for maintaining healthy ecosystems and food security.
What are some of the plants discussed in the presentation for seed harvesting?
-The plants discussed include tomatoes, peppers, melons, okra, beans, carrots, lettuce, basil, cilantro, and marigolds.
Why are tomatoes considered one of the easiest plants for seed harvesting?
-Tomatoes are considered easy for seed harvesting because the process involves simply taking a ripe tomato, scooping out the seeds, placing them on parchment paper to dry for a few days, and then storing them in an airtight container.
What is the difference between easy and moderate level seed harvesting for peppers?
-The difference lies in the drying time required for the seeds. While the process of removing the seeds from the pepper is easy, the seeds take longer to dry, which is why it might be considered a moderate level of difficulty.
How does one harvest seeds from melons?
-To harvest melon seeds, one should rinse them off, let them dry out to remove any pulp, and then store them in a suitable container. The seeds are ready for planting once fully dried.
What is the significance of labeling seeds after harvesting?
-Labeling seeds is crucial to identify the plant variety and the year of harvest, which helps in planning for the next growing season and ensures the seeds are used within their viable period.
Why is it recommended to avoid using paper towels for drying seeds?
-Paper towels are not recommended because seeds can stick to them, making it difficult to remove them without losing some of the seeds.
What is the concept of 'bolting' as mentioned in the context of lettuce and other leafy greens?
-Bolting refers to the process where leafy greens and vegetables transition from producing leaves to producing flowers and seeds as a response to environmental stress, such as increased temperatures, signaling the end of their life cycle.
How can saving and harvesting seeds benefit a gardener financially?
-Saving and harvesting seeds can save a gardener money by reducing the need to purchase seeds from commercial suppliers, allowing for a more sustainable and cost-effective gardening practice.
What are some of the challenges associated with harvesting seeds from carrots?
-Harvesting seeds from carrots is challenging because it requires waiting for the plant to complete its life cycle, which includes the plant leaning over and dying back. Additionally, carrot seeds are very small and can be easily lost.
Why is it important to store seeds in a cool, dry, and dark place?
-Storing seeds in a cool, dry, and dark place is important to maintain their viability. Exposure to heat, moisture, and light can reduce the lifespan and germination potential of seeds.
What is the benefit of harvesting seeds from plants that have been conditioned to grow in a specific environment?
-Harvesting seeds from plants conditioned to a specific environment ensures that the seeds are more likely to be resilient and successful in that environment, leading to better growth and higher yields.
How long can some seeds remain viable?
-Some seeds, like those from the date palm and lotus, can remain viable for over a thousand years, demonstrating the incredible longevity of seeds under the right conditions.
Outlines
🌱 Introduction to Seed Harvesting Presentation
The presenter, a former educator, introduces the objective of the seed harvesting presentation, which is to teach the audience to identify suitable plants for seed harvesting, describe the difficulty level and techniques for harvesting and drying seeds, and explain how seed harvesting contributes to sustainability. The agenda includes a quote from Henry David Thoreau emphasizing the importance of seeds, and a discussion on the advantages of seed harvesting, such as promoting genetic diversity, self-sufficiency, and environmental sustainability. The presenter also mentions the plants that will be covered: tomatoes, peppers, melons, okra, beans, carrots, lettuce, basil, cilantro, and marigolds, chosen for their varying difficulty levels in seed harvesting.
🍅 Seed Harvesting Techniques for Tomatoes and Peppers
The presenter discusses the process of harvesting seeds from tomatoes and peppers, two relatively easy plants for seed collection. For tomatoes, the method involves scooping out seeds from ripe tomatoes, drying them on parchment paper for several days, and storing them in an airtight container. The presenter emphasizes avoiding moisture to prevent mold and premature germination. With peppers, the process is similar but may be considered moderate due to the longer drying time. The seeds are removed from the core, cleaned, and dried before storage. The presenter also shares personal tips on avoiding common mistakes, such as using paper towels which can cause seeds to stick.
🥒 Seed Harvesting for Melons, Okra, and the Importance of Seed Saving
The presenter moves on to discuss seed harvesting for melons and okra, both considered easy to moderate in difficulty. Melon seeds are rinsed, dried, and planted directly in sandy soil, while okra seeds are harvested from dried pods. The presenter also touches on the topic of seed saving, highlighting that only three out of ten gardeners save their seeds, often due to the convenience of commercial seed suppliers. However, saving seeds can be cost-effective and beneficial for adapting plants to local growing conditions. The presenter also mentions Texas Tested Seeds as an example of a company that provides seeds adapted to specific regional climates.
🥕 The Challenge of Carrot and Lettuce Seed Harvesting
The presenter explains that harvesting seeds from carrots and lettuce is more challenging due to the plants' life cycles and the small size of their seeds. Carrots, biennials by nature, produce seeds in their second year when they begin to flower and end their life cycle. The presenter advises waiting for the plant to wither before harvesting the seeds, which are tiny and easily lost. Lettuce seeds are similarly small and require the plant to fully mature and begin the bolting process before seeds can be collected. The presenter shares a personal preference for using mesh bags to store seeds, ensuring they do not get lost during the drying process.
🌿 The Viability of Seeds and Harvesting Herb Seeds
The presenter shares fascinating facts about the longevity of seeds, noting that some seeds, like the date palm and lotus, can germinate after over a thousand years. The focus then shifts to harvesting seeds from herbs, starting with basil, which is very easy, requiring only the collection of flowers that have turned brown. The presenter also mentions the moderate difficulty of harvesting cilantro seeds due to the plant's branching flower structure. The segment ends with a demonstration of harvesting basil seeds, emphasizing the simplicity of the process.
🌼 Harvesting Marigold Seeds and the Joy of Gardening
In the final paragraph, the presenter demonstrates the simple process of harvesting marigold seeds by opening the dried flower heads to release the seeds inside. The presenter expresses a deep appreciation for gardening, particularly the joy of harvesting seeds and the satisfaction of knowing they will be used for future plantings. The love for gardening is evident as the presenter thanks the audience for their engagement and shares the excitement of the gardening community.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Seed Harvesting
💡Genetic Diversity
💡Sustainability
💡Self-sufficiency
💡Environmental Sustainability
💡Cultural and Historical Preservation
💡Tomatoes
💡Peppers
💡Basil
💡Cilantro
💡Bolting
Highlights
Objective to identify suitable plants for seed harvesting and understand techniques for seed preservation.
Importance of seed harvesting for sustainability, genetic diversity, and self-sufficiency.
The role of seed harvesting in reducing reliance on commercial suppliers.
Introduction to the agenda and structure of the presentation.
Quote from Henry David Thoreau emphasizing the potential within a seed.
Advantages of harvesting seeds for environmental and historical preservation.
Selection of plants based on varying difficulty levels for seed harvesting.
Step-by-step guide on harvesting tomato seeds, the easiest among the discussed plants.
Caveats on drying and storing seeds to prevent mold and premature germination.
Discussion on the moderate difficulty of harvesting pepper seeds.
Importance of labeling seeds with dates for tracking viability.
Tips for remembering what and when seeds were harvested using garden maps.
Explanation of seed viability and the importance of using fresh seeds for planting.
Harvesting melon seeds with a focus on drying times and simplicity.
The process of harvesting okra seeds and the benefits of growing okra in warm climates.
Statistics on the minority of gardeners who save and harvest their seeds.
Benefits of growing and harvesting seeds adapted to local microclimates.
The challenge of harvesting carrot seeds due to their small size and the plant's life cycle.
Lettuce seed harvesting tips, including dealing with small seeds and the bolting process.
Historical fact about seeds remaining viable for over a thousand years.
Simple method for harvesting basil seeds and storing them for future use.
Demonstration of harvesting marigolds, emphasizing their ease of growth and benefits.
Personal reflection on the joy of seed harvesting and the value of the community calls.
Transcripts
so
um seed harvesting first and foremost
I'm a foran educator so I'm going always
set up these presentations like I used
to do when I was in the classroom uh so
first and foremost the objective by the
end of this presentation you should be
able to identify four fruit three
vegetable three herb plants sustainable
for excuse me suitable for seed
harvesting you should be able to
describe the difficulty level and proper
techniques for harvesting the seeds as
well as drying them out and then explain
how seed harvesting can contribute to
sustainability through preserving
genetic diversity reducing Reliance on
Commercial suppliers and promoting
self-sufficiency then you should be able
to demonstrate the basic steps for
harvesting seeds with it one least easy
what at one easy to grow plant and then
of course you can ask and answer
questions on how to uh how to do this if
want ask you those questions in
the um now as far as our agenda you know
we had an agenda last week we said we're
gonna keep it minut hour and 30 we did
not stick to set agenda because we had
so many great questions but here's our
loose leaf of how our agenda should look
for this um presentation
today so before we go on to the
introduction je this is just a quote
from Henry David uh thorough I am a huge
lover
of poetry uh I like to call myself a
renaissance man and this is some
planting wisdom from the though I do not
believe that a plant will spring up
where no seed has been I have great
faith in a seed convince me that you
have a seed there and I am prepared to
expect
wonders so seed harvesting what we're
going to be talking about today is the
advantages to harvesting your seeds now
I know that Stephanie just asked you
know how to do it but you know I guess
just the educator me I can never just
tell you oh a you know plus b equals c I
always have to give you the why behind
it that that's what motivates me
promoting genetic diversity is one of
the things that is very important when
it comes to seeds and as we talk about
these seeds I'm going to go in further
detail as to what that means
self-sufficiency and food security we
all know what happened during covid I'm
not GNA harp on it we were all there and
when the food chains broke down and it
was hard to get things now growing a
garden is not going
to it's not going to take you completely
off the grid unless you are living off
the grid or you're blessed to have a
food forest or something like that but
it can make you feel a little bit safer
so having your own seeds add adds to
that as well you also have environmental
sustainability cultural and his
historical
P preservation as well I'm gonna get
through this guys I
apologize all right let's
see and so what we're going to be
talking about today here are the few of
the few plants that we're going to be
going through we're going to talk about
tomatoes peppers melons okra beans
carrots lettuce basil cilantro and time
the reason why I chose these is because
they're varying levels of difficulty
we're going to start off with the easier
version in our fruits vegetables and
herbs and then we're going to go to the
more moderate versions is how to collect
those seeds so giving you a little bit
of a warmup so to
speak so with that being said we're
going to first start off with the
easiest one of all and that is the
wonderful Tomatoes seeing it's how we
were all talking about tomatoes earlier
and how none of us are producing right
now but I do want to say this I do have
one tomato plant that is actually still
um producing right now it's a pink
hybrid tomato and it's like three
tomatoes on there it's struggling but
it's doing and tomato is truly one of
the easiest there is to harvest when you
come to your seeds um now here are the
steps here and of course after the the
presentation you can always go back and
watch the recorded view but you can see
that Tomatoes honestly all you have to
do is take a ripe tomato scoop out your
seeds right out the middle place them on
like some uh now you can do it on a
paper plate I prefer place them out like
on parchment paper and just let them sit
let them sit for 3 to seven days get all
of that juice and that PP that's off
there and just let them dry out and then
once you have them dry out scoop them up
put you in a cont a airtight container
and you're good to go but now one caveat
to that make sure you don't have any
moisture in that bag because if you have
any moisture in your bag that can end up
you'll be getting mold in there and then
you could possibly get some premature
germination so if you're trying to save
them from next season definitely make
sure that you got airtight seal on that
bag put them somewhere nice and dark and
you don't have any moisture in there and
definitely don't dry them out on a paper
towel they will stick to that paper
towel don't ask me how I know absolutely
right so yeah no paper towels at
all now it's in interesting because this
is considered a moderate level seed
Harvest for some but to me Peppers I'm
still going to say are very easy to
harvest and now on the picture we have
here we have a sweet bell pepper we have
uh a red sweet bell pepper but this
pretty much applies to anything in your
pepper family when it comes to
harvesting them all you have to do is
just remove that core where those seeds
are at remove any little bits of
placenta that might be on the seed
itself and just again strain them out
place them on some parchment paper now
your seeds are going to take a little
bit longer for them to dry out and
that's why this might be considered more
of a moderate level as far as you know
um harvesting your seeds but really just
set it forget it come back and then
again put it in a Ziploc put it in a
tupperware and store it away now as
we're talking about storing seeds away
make sure that you label them I'm going
to tell you guys I am uh blessed with a
curse called ADHD and all about
something and then until I get
distracted and I'm like squirrel so if
you do not mark them if I do not mark
them I will not know what seeds they are
when I harvested them you know how long
do I have before I need to plant them so
make sure you mark them as soon as you
put them in the back okay what's up J I
am terrible for
that so I'm also terrible with that so
what I do is I bring out a sheet of
paper and I mark it into my I make it in
the sh of my beds and I literally write
down what I planted and when because I
know because a my plant markers fade in
the sun and the rain but be I will never
remember so I can go back to that Garden
map and it also helps me the next year
to make sure I don't plant tomatoes the
same place I planted Tomatoes the
previous year Etc you had a
question I do you said that when you
label the seeds you need to put the date
on there for the seeds do the seeds go
bad or are they pretty good for like
years um I mean when it comes to see
specifically when we're talking about
like our annuals like our peppers and
our Tomatoes you do have a short shelf
so you want to try to get them out as
far as within the next growing season
because you start getting two three four
year Seasons out they actually could
lose the ability to be able to still
germinate they may still end up out on
you so I would definitely put the date
on there so you can kind of keep that in
the back of your mind like o these are
my seeds from 2022 I need to go ahead
and get these out before because once
you start getting into harvesting seeds
you will come and start doing this more
often so you don't want to use your
newer seeds you get what I'm
saying yeah I mean there now there
further along in the presentation there
are seeds that actually have lived
thousands of years that can still
germinate and I'll tell you guys about
that in a little bit so some seeds can
last Almost several lifetimes um now
when it comes to Peppers this is not
necessarily harvesting seeds as far as
this is more about growing peppers so
you see that nice cluster seiz that's
right there in the middle I remember I
had filmed this video on YouTube a while
back and I was showing you know a garden
hack I take that whole entire bulb and
just stick it right in some soil and
guess what give it a couple of days like
five to seven days those seedlings will
pop right on the out of the soil and I
had a gentleman he just chewed me out
was like you're such a hack that's not
how you germinate you you planted those
there I mean you you know you switched
out the seeds or what I'm like uh no I
do this all I've been doing this since I
was a child I always do that just throw
them honestly the way I learned how to
do that is just by throwing them out in
compost by m sake so when it comes to
planing uh pepper seats it's really not
you know rocket science when it comes to
those all right now Mel
again this one is considered a moderate
level but I'm going to rely just like I
said on the peppers it's really based on
your dry out time um because I have
literally taken uh watermelon seeds
because my kids you know they they love
when we grow sugar babies they love when
we grow watermelons and they are my seed
Harvesters soon as they finish eating
their watermelon they collect their
seeds up for me I rinse them off let
them dry out a little bit get all that
pulp off of them and then they're done
we have watermelon seeds going forward
um as far as Platinum just like with the
pepper seeds you throw them in soil
throw them in a Sandy loone they will
grow so yeah so even though it's one to
two weeks to fully dry
out that they they're they're really
it's not rocket science with those
either it's really simple when it comes
to
melon we have okra anyone growing okra
this year
anyone last year and
died
a well we're gonna see if we can get you
back to growing okra because okra
harvesting okra seeds it is super easy
I'm going to show you how to do okra
seeds this afternoon uh after we get
done with the presentation part but okra
um especially being in Florida being in
Texas it loves the hot weather so okra
seeds once you allow that pod to kind of
drive a little bit again a super easy
one um now now in the methods that I I
posted it says that you can take a okra
uh pod and allow it to dry out for one
or two
weeks but honestly I just let the whole
entire pod dry out itself and I just
harvest my seeds directly from it I
don't actually harvest the seeds when
it's still wet and pulpy I wait for the
Pod to actually grow out okay exactly
and one thing I'll add is one ochre pod
is probably all you need you'll get a
lot of seeds
you're absolutely right one part is
enough because okra is a prolific
grow before we go on to the next section
just want to talk about seeds one more
time did you know that only three out of
10 gardeners actually save and harvest
their seeds and the reason behind it is
because there's so many seed companies
that exist out there Andre was just
talking about it before where people are
taking like beans and peas and breaking
them up and putting them into containers
and selling them back to us when you can
go to the grocery store and get that
same whole package of black beans and
it's like A1 58 or $1.98 at at Wally but
you know we we paying three and five and
$10 sometimes for some of these
different seeds but if you get into the
habit of saving your own seeds not only
is it saving you money it's also you
okay there is a grower here that I
follow and I follow her on Facebook and
her name of her company is Texas tested
seeds her seeds also do well in Florida
I love her company because these are all
seeds that she grows from plants that
she grows that have been conditioned to
grow in our environment and that's the
beauty of growing and harvesting your
own seeds I did the same thing with the
last couple of years with a Ricker of
sunflowers now I started growing the rck
or sunflowers from a seed company but
then every year after that they got more
and more AC Rel ated to my microclimate
in my growing conditions so by
harvesting your own seeds you're
toughening up that plant so it can grow
better in your Zone does that make sense
yeah because the ones that are growing
because every plant has a little bit of
genetic variation and the ones that are
most successful are the ones that are
being um that are sort of changing a
little bit and the variety is one that
is more accommodating to where you
specifically are so your seeds are
special seeds when you
all right so beans it's so funny because
Jen Andre and I was just talking about
this earlier yes beans beans are super
easy um and so I'm not even going to go
over harvesting beans because it's just
that simple I mean you take a pot out
let it dry out and then boom you have
your bean seeds uh you can grab grab a
bag from your grocery store from your
discount store what have you you have
bean seeds now as far as a prepper uh
sustainability mentality beans dried
beans are always good to have in your
cabinets if you ever get into those
situations where you need food because
it's a great source of protein some of
you may know that my family is um we're
pescatarian so we don't actually eat any
red meat we eat fish and we eat a lot of
beans and so forth so I always have
beans my wife my wife is pescatarian oh
awesome she's a good
person uh yeah my wife she's she was a
vegetarian when I first met her I was
like hey I'm originally from Louisiana
you can't take away my fish
now you're getting you're getting
carried away with this
baby right so carrots now the difficulty
level on the carrots is going to jump up
to moderate and the reason behind that
now I'm going to tell you one thing I
don't like carrots I don't care for them
I know like wait a minute but you're
you're a pescaterian and you don't like
char No that I I don't like the texture
I don't like the taste my kids love them
but get a carrot away from me so when it
comes to harvesting your carrots the
caveat with carrots is a carrot is a b
Bal plant so just like with your
strawberries when you establish and grow
carrots you first start off with your
first year just with the plant trying to
get itself established it's growing its
Tap Root system and it's starting to
really get itself going that second year
is really when you start getting the
growth out of it and you'll actually see
those carrots come into the fruition
that you're looking for and this is also
going to be the time when you can come
and get those seeds off the carrots
you're going to have to let allow some
of the carrots to actually start to grow
up into flour because what's happening
is the flow the carrot is actually
ending its life cycle and it's starting
to go to seed so that it can produce no
more offspring that's the whole reason
why we're getting seeds off of these
plants is because a lot of them that
ending their life they're ready to turn
over to the next generation and the
reason why it's challenging when you're
talking about
um harvesting your carrots is because
you have to almost wait for the plant to
essentially lean over and die before you
can really Harvest them and then you
have to rub them and and dry the leaves
off and the flowers off so that you can
actually Crush those seeds up and get
them and then carrot seeds are super
small MCAT seeds are like small like
like strawberry seeds that's another
plant that I prefer not to grow from
seed because it's so small and it's so
easy to sneeze and then you've lost all
your
seeds
lettuce lettuce is another one that's on
the moderate scale and it's going to be
the same exact we using that as before
we're talking about something that is
very tiny specifically when we're
talking about like your iceberg lettuce
is your Roma I mean they're going to be
larger than your carrot seeds and larger
than and your um strawberry seeds but
there's still a very tiny small seed
that you're dealing with um now let's go
through the steps okay so saving lettuce
seeds can be tricky allow for the
lettuce plants to fully mature so we're
not harvesting the leaves anymore we're
going to let it completely just mature
and actually start the bolting process
and I'm going to explain what bolting is
if you're not familiar with that in just
a moment uh when the seeds heads have
turned brown and start to dry carefully
cut them off and do take care with it
because again we're talking about small
seeds here and then you can put them in
a paper bag or I honestly do prefer
putting them in something mesh so that
way I know
that the bag is not going to crumble in
such a way that I end up losing what
I've does that make sense you guys I
don't lose what I've already put in
there so I prefer something that's
meshed so I can actually see the seeds
that I'm putting in there because
sometimes I get happy fingers sometimes
I don't see as good as I used to and I
might miss the bag entirely but
something mesh I know it went in it
uh once the seeds have uh fully dried
rub them between your hands and you can
gently kind of crush them out kind of
like what you would do with like a
maragold now but a maragold we know that
is much bigger so it's easy to harvest
those seeds but essentially you're going
to go through the same process then you
separate your seeds from your debris I
don't really separate the debris as far
as I'm concerned I consider that organic
matter and it's all going in this in the
hole and then after that of course we we
store it in a nice cool dry place now
bolting
um bolting essentially what happens to
your leafy greens your vegetables your
Leaf vegetables when environmental
stress is taking a factor so the reason
why we call like lettuces your spinaches
and so forth cool weather crops is
because once the end of spring is over
and you start getting temperatures above
70 80 degrees so forth that plant will
say oh it's time for me to go ahead and
die and let me create the Next
Generation so that's when bolting takes
place so what you'll notice in your
lettuce is that it might have been that
nice head of Romain that's going on but
you'll start seeing a long stem it'll
start to elongate itself that's when you
know the bolting process is taking place
but if you're trying to harvest your
seed that's good for you not so good if
you actually wanted to eat that lettuce
also when lettuce or spinaches start to
bolt uh even your broccolis when they
start to bolt they're going to have more
of a bitter taste to them too so you can
still eat them they're still edible but
they're not going to taste as good as
when the temperatures were in the lower
climates does that make
sense so this is the part that I wanted
to tell you guys about all right so some
seeds can remain viable for centuries so
for instance a SEO palm and the Lotus
has been found to germanate after being
stored for over a thousand
years now not every SE can do with that
but that's just amazing to know the
power of
nature right on now we're getting into
the fun stuff the stuff that I love the
herbs I'm a huge grower of herbs I love
growing them and the easiest one and
this is the one that I believe Stephanie
had the question about and that's
harvesting basil super easy to grow all
you have to allow for that basil to do
is allow it to start flowering and once
we get done with this presentation I'm
going to take you outside I have some
purple basil that that's what we see in
this picture right here that purple
basil I'm going to harvest some of those
seeds and show you just how simple it is
um now of course we have the specific
steps about you take them down and all
that I don't do all of that I don't do
any of that I honestly just clip the
flowers off and put them in the bag and
keep them that's
it keep it simple Soldier you know
that's what they used to tell me in the
army
cilantro now cilantro is going to be a
little bit on the moderate scale just
because of the way cilantro flowers um
as you see the flowers are not going to
be in a straight stem like what you
would get with a basil or you would get
for instance like uh maybe some of your
times it is going to Branch out a little
bit um but the process is pretty much
just the same once you've clipped those
flowers allow them to Brown a little bit
uh you can take those and then of course
start colle them as
well now with that being
said here are some seeds that are just
plain difficult I mean more power to you
if you want to get them or milk wheat
poppy so again we were talking about
that Poppy that started growing in I
never grew poppy because I know the
challenge that comes with harvesting
those seeds and so forth so when they di
they died but hey the hummingbird and
the bees loved them while they were here
but cotton seeds pine trees and really
with pine trees it's really more just a
timing thing I mean you have to be very
precise when you're trying to harvest
the seeds on on a pine tree so these are
seeds that I will never touch don't ask
me to I'm not going to because it's just
challenge orchids themselves just
growing orchids we anybody ever here
grow
orchids very difficult oh yes oh yes I
mean we're talking about expert expert
level growing
let's Harvest some basil basil
seeds there we go
boom
boom and that is Harvest and basil
that's how easy it is I mean it's
literally that easy so I take these
they've nice and brown out on us see
those
here all crumbly and everything now I
could take and rub them as like the
instructions say but I'm just gonna take
this whole entire
bit and put it right in the Ziploc
bag of course I'll come back and harvest
more off of here but this plant has a
lot of spidermites on it right
now so in all truthfulness I probably
won't end up keeping these seeds because
I don't want those spidermites being
transferred uh next
season
but we got basil seeds then we take it
and we mark it
and we know this is purple
basil and this is 8 21
24 I take that seal that up put that in
my grow cabinet and we're ready to go
for purple basil for next year that I
started telling you guys about marol and
how easy it was to harvest marles have
you guys ever actually harvest marold
seeds I haven't I've grown them okay all
right so you know what while we're out
here since the basil Harvest was so easy
let me just show you real quick how easy
it is to get maragon to now you see this
Maro
flow it's nice and brown just GNA pop
that off we have others
growing all you do is you take this
seed excuse me this flower and you open
it up and when you open that
up guess what all those are those are
all your seeds right there you place
these in a Ziploc and now you got Mar
Golds year round and I love planting
marold because Mir go can you guys even
see that I realize that the sun might be
shining in a
way there we go but now you got Mar gold
and I love planting marold
because they're one of those flowers
that just keep on giving uh they're
great at Pest Control they're great at
water retention so I do a lot of
companion planning specifically with
French mirror gos so I'm always taking
and harvesting these seeds and growing
them again next year and then the seeds
grow so easy so it's just one of those
plants like I said that just keeps on
giving thank you the coals are my
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