Has anyone built a small seed drying cabinet with a dehumidifier inside? e.g. inside a broken fridge or insulated large cupboard.
Me and a few other seed growers are sharing ideas on how best to do this and wondering if there's any issues with having a freestanding desiccant dehumidifier inside a small space?
We're in the UK where autumns are often soggy and it can be hard to dry seed.
There's commercial dehumidifiers which require vents, we're looking at free standing ones that collect the water but none of us have tried having one in a small space, we think desiccant is preferable for low temperatures but concerned it could produce too much heat...
Any one tried this can can teach us from your mistakes or successes?
Thanks
That's a really good idea, thank you John Yes you understood correctly, concern is just that any tiny soil particles on the beets could transfer the problem to our site.
I'll share your idea with my colleagues, and will look at the link. 👍
We're considering taking some beetroot from a farm that has clubroot, to grow the beetroot for seed (they're a seed company and we want to grow more seed).
We're a small unmechanised no-dig market garden, growing in polycultures, a wet cold site, mounded beds.
I'm wondering if soil health (which has been a strong focus of our farm for 12 yrs) will outcompete the risk of clubroot....
I like to be more optimistic about soil health winning, rather than make decision based on fear.... but is this naive? As we do have acidic soil (which CB enjoys)
Any thoughts or direct experience?
Anne, the diseases are fungal and therefore around in the air, so that was my concern, even if I can't see physical symptoms that the spores might be present on seeds.
Hi Folks,
I'm new to this forum and new-ish to seed saving (having just saved my own tomatoes for years, now trying new things and wanting to do LOTS more seed saving!).
I'm moving growing sites over winter and we have a few disease issues on our current site.
I'm curious whether the diseases might be carried on seeds I save and what the advice would be around this please?
Two current specific concerns:
Tomatoes (blight and botrytis)
French beans (Sclerotinia)
Would love to be able to save seed without worrying about transferring to a new site,or perhaps its better not to and to start afresh?
Thanks in advance.
Jen
