Not all seeds are created similarly, even amongst a gaggle of the similar form of plant. “Choose plants that performed well in your garden throughout the season, produced big, beautiful, blemish-free fruit or pretty blooms, and avoided disease,” says Thompson-Adolf.
And listen to seed dimension. “You’re looking to take the biggest seeds because those will tend to perform better when you grow them the following year,” says Thompson-Adolf.
Also imagine the processing required for the kind of plant you’re operating with. For some crops, together with beans, brassicas, carrots, corn, lettuce and radishes, going to seed is the next level within the existence cycle. Preserving their seeds is referred to as dry processing and comes to chopping seedpod stalks, drying them, setting apart the seeds from the remainder of the plant and casting off plant particles. Plants that produce seeds inside of their fruit, however, together with tomatoes, cucumbers and melons, require rainy processing, which comes to extra steps, similar to fermenting the seeds first. If you’re a first-time seed saver, it’s easiest to persist with dry processing, says Thompson-Adolf, as it’s more straightforward.