Some Seed Saving

Joy's the real expert in this area, but I thought I'd at least throw up some links--it's fascinating stuff. It's also a lot of work. Luckily we had a lot of volunteer help for our major projects, including these pretty purple shelled beans.

Saving Our Seed, a website on just that.

Common vegetable seed saving guide from ISSI.

Short and sweet guide from Sustainable Methow.

PDF specifically on isolation distances by Jeff McCormack.

Leslie Land's instructions saving tomato seed.

I think when I do start I'll go with easy herbs like cilantro and dill, then try beans and tomatoes, to get my confidence up. Here are some other suggestions on "easy" places to start.

Cilantro seed starting to turn