Seed saving - PEP BB gardening.straw.seedsaving

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Andrea Hart wrote:I save these seeds last fall, and stored them in folded paper seed packets, then in a plastic baggie.

White onions, Yukon gold potato, Marigolds (3 varieties), Lettuce (4 varieties)

The best way to ping is to hit the "report" button on the thread in question and ask very nicely if someone could take a look at it.  I'd say approvals are running around a week or less so don't ping until a fair bit of time has elapsed.

Secondly, it doesn't look like you "submitted for BB certification" when you made that submission.  I'll turn on the edit button for you so you can go back in and submit it correctly.  Once submitted, it sits in a queue and shouldn't fall through the cracks.

The poppies look to be Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy. Occurs in lots of colors from white to pink, red, purple, and almost black. The seeds can vary from pale off-white to black, with or without the blue bloom to them. The pods are smooth and round to oval.  Papaver rheas, the corn poppy of European wheat fields, is commonly red, orange. or pink with elongated, hairy seed pods and stems.

Eggplant, squash, and peppers need to be fully mature. That means that squash has a hard shell (even zucchini,) peppers are fully red (or whatever their final color is--some are bred to be yellow orange or purple at maturity. There should be no green.) Eggplant at maturity has lost its gloss and has a matte, tough, skin. The seeds should be dark and hard.

Cucumbers and summer squash are well past eating stage when ready for seed harvest. Cukes will be big, bloated, and yellow, with hard seeds. Summer squash will have a hard shell and hard seeds.

Beans are the easiest of all seeds to save, as they are both self-pollinating and easy to thresh. Lettuce is self-pollinating and has seeds with fluffy parachutes like dandelions. When mature, then will fall into a bucket when bent over it and shaken. There will be flowers, half-ripe, and mature seed on the same tall stalk.

Many herbs are easy to save seed. Mullein, Evening Primrose, Lemon Balm, Mint, and many others can just be cut and placed head down in a bucket to fall out as they dry.

Andrea Hart wrote:How do you ping someone to approve or comment on a BB submission? Mine has not been evaluated.

Andrea Hart wrote:I save these seeds last fall, and stored them in folded paper seed packets, then in a plastic baggie.

White onions, Yukon gold potato, Marigolds (3 varieties), Lettuce (4 varieties)

Wait...Yukon gold potato seeds???  Potatoes make seeds?  Where and how are they found on the plant?  On the potato?  I just thought it was the "eyes" that were the seeds!  Maybe Andrea means Tomato seeds?  It sort of looks like a tomato stem on the right side of the plate that she mentions. The seeds look like tomato seeds actually.. but I can't find anything called "Yukon Gold Tomato".  ??

Here are some pictures of collected seeds from this season. Parsnips, carrots, beetroot and sunflowers. After thorough drying they will be stored in jars because of the big amounts of seeds.