chilipepper's Journal

Very interesting and useful.

Chillipepper I read about this process in the Times sat. garden article, you  have great patience...but then I think you do need lots of that with gardening...

Thats what I did, but wasnt sure I was doing things right. But I didnt know about the good seeds sinking. You learn something new every day. Nice one for that, Chili. Thanks.

Good,,,i tought nobody doing it here:)).Maybe better dray out seeds on fabric,,then you can easyer them get off from it,and then just put in envelope.I left on paper towel,but they stick on it very hard.

i wasnt sure either, i was testing out old seed packet one day, of course i couldnt remember what was the good seed and what was the bad one, well as it goes nothing sank so i did the right thing when i through them out,

here is a question for you, soaked the sweet pea seeds(aniversary) i still have not sown them, i strained the water from them but i left them in the plastic container, will they be ok? plan to sow them tomorrow

Thanks Liga good tip will try that, they may not be fully dry you would be better storing them dry, soaking them and then planting them, what type of sweet pea are they? might be a bit late in the year for sowing them........ 

Be careful! Seed saving is a terrible addiction. I dry tomato seeds on a plate, and stir them as they dry as they stick to each other

That's a great tip for saving tomato seeds, thanks. Love all your journal entry's

Your journal entries are really interesting would never have thought about saving seeds from tomatoes.

that's great info, chilip -- i was just thinking i needed to save some tomato seeds to freshen up the supply.  and i like liga's idea of drying on fabric so you don't end up with pieces of kitchen roll on your seeds.  will let you know what varieties i save in case you might want to do a bit of swapping...