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Seed saving (may be from store bought fruits) - PEA BB garden.sand.five.seedsaving

BB gardening - sand badge
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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEA curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Gardening.

Even if your situation doesn’t allow you to save seeds from a typical garden, let’s not let that stand in your way. Even if you are getting your fruits and vegetables from a farmers market or grocery, the process is the same. There’s no reason not to build up your experience now so that when you have more land to work with, you’ll already be a well seasoned veteran at saving seeds. One less thing to feel trepidation about later.

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
Collect seeds from at least 3 species.
Prep and finish seeds for saving.
Store safely in labeled containers.






To document and become certified for this BB provide photos or video (less than 2 minutes) showing the following:
- Show the 3 species of plant you are saving the seeds from.
- Show yourself collecting the seeds.
- Show them being prepared for saving.
- Show the fully prepared seeds stored in labeled containers.
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Chelsea Perez
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I saved seeds from my California Poppy, Calendula, and Snow Pea plants.
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Calendula
Calendula
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Pulling the heads
Pulling the heads
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Processing- pulling out all the bone seed bits
Processing- pulling out all the bone seed bits
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There they are, in a pretty box.
There they are, in a pretty box.
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California Poppy
California Poppy
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Pulling the heads
Pulling the heads
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In a pillow box
In a pillow box
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Snap pea plant
Snap pea plant
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Collecting the pods
Collecting the pods
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Pardon the blur
Pardon the blur
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All seeds in their homes
All seeds in their homes
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Inge Leonora-den Ouden
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Nice! One more garden BB I can do! If I knew before I would already have it ... Now I need to think of making the photos!

"Also, just as you want men to do to you, do the same way to them" (Luke 6:31)

 
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Feral wheat sugar snap peas volunteer red lettuce
Envelopes in Ziploc in fridge.
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Thresh wheat
Thresh wheat
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Store
Store
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Survivor pea pod
Survivor pea pod
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Pea and lettuce
Pea and lettuce
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Red leaf volunteer
Red leaf volunteer
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Note: Duplication. I approved the PEP submission. If you would like to receive the BB for seed saving for both PEP and PEA, it needs to be a different set of seeds.

 
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The seeds are from okra, banana peppers and black nightshade.
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Okra plant
Okra plant
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Pepper plant
Pepper plant
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Black nightshade
Black nightshade
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The fruits garhered up
The fruits garhered up
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Seeds drying
Seeds drying
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Put up and labeled
Put up and labeled
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Inge Leonora-den Ouden
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I need to think of this:

To document and become certified for this BB provide photos or video (less than 2 minutes) showing the following:
- Show the 3 species of plant you are saving the seeds from.
- Show yourself collecting the seeds.
- Show them being prepared for saving.
- Show the fully prepared seeds stored in labeled containers.


I saved so many seeds, but never made photos ...

"Also, just as you want men to do to you, do the same way to them" (Luke 6:31)

 
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Take 2
Seeds are blood orange from grocery store. I didn't know it would have seeds so I didn't take a picture before eating it but it looked like a navel orange with a red blush around the stem.
Locust from my yard (ordered piles are making sure I have "enough" to do the woodland straw BB grow perennials.
Legume is a wild plant I'd like to add to my food forest. It grows about knee high but sprawls for feet. The blossom is bright yellow in clover like clusters. I didn't husk it on purpose because the seeds must be tiny and might explode out of their pods. I think it's the plant called medic but I am confident in calling it legume.
Date for Xmas cookies place pit in mouth to suck all the date goodness off while finishing baking store in envelope.
Okay bought new blood oranges, don't know if these will have seeds to and to the envelope but I do have a prediction I lined them up in order of increasing blush, the one on the right will have much darker red flesh than the one on the left.
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Blood orange
Blood orange
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Locust
Locust
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Locust pods
Locust pods
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Gathering legume
Harvesting legume
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Storage legume
Storage legume
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Locust harvest
Locust harvest
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Source harvest store
Source harvest store dates
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Plant legume for cover crop
Plant legume for cover crop
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Blood orange seeds preharvest
Blood orange seeds preharvest
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Someone flagged this submission as not complete.
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Note: Required photos: Show the 3 species of plant you are saving the seeds from. - Show yourself collecting the seeds.  Looks like you're missing a few photos of the fruit or plant and you collecting the seeds. You also have 2 seed photos labeled as locust and none as the legume pods.

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I see the legumes in the envelope now. Don't know why it didn't show when I first looked at it.

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Paul Fookes approved this submission.
Note: I certify this BB complete. Please check BB requirements before submission to ensure you get certification first time around.

 
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Collected seeds from a cucumber, zucchini, yellow squash, and mini sweet peppers. The cucumber seeds didn’t extract from the dried/squished version very well, so I skipped saving those ones, but was able to save the other 4
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For this BB I saved seed from: a small orange pumpkin (Hokkaido type), a Butternut squash and Runnerbeans (and some more beans).
The pumpkin and squash were bought (organic, local), the beans from my rented allotment garden.


orange pumpkin

Butternut squash

Runner beans (the green ones on the right I prepared for dinner)


Seeds in pumpkin

preparing pumpkin seeds for saving

Seeds from Butternut squash

preparing squash seeds for saving

the bean pods from which I'll take seeds

the beautiful purple beans waiting to be saved


All three kinds of seeds in home-made sachets for storage (until I'll use them next gardening season). Written in Dutch.

"Also, just as you want men to do to you, do the same way to them" (Luke 6:31)

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Paul Fookes approved this submission.
Note: I certify this BB complete.  Well done

 
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3 species, all from my own garden:

- Gartenmelde (amaranth related, grown for spinach-like leaves)
- Jalapeños
- Small bush tomatos

The Gartenmelde was left to dry outside before taking the seeds, which come wrapped in pods. The Jalapeños are part of a small landrace experient . I left the tomato seeds in water for a few days, to separate them from the gunk. This only worked half-way, as the seeds still stuck to the kitchen towels in the end. Oh well, I can still use them of course, but I'd like to learn to do this properly.
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