Video: How to Harvest Seeds From a Vegetable Garden

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Harvesting seeds from a vegetable garden can be a great way to propagate a new plant. Harvest seeds from a vegetable garden with help from a registered herbalist in this free video clip.

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Hi, my name's Bob Linde. I'm an herbalist and an herb grower. Today, I'm going to talk to you about how to harvest seeds from a vegetable garden. And of course every vegetable is different on how we are going to harvest seeds or how we may propagate a new plant. But today, I'm going to talk to you about how we might harvest some fennel seeds. So, I regularly grow fennel in my garden. And I always leave a few plants that I allow to go to seed. An actually it has a beautiful bloom on it. That as that bloom starts to go away we'll actually see some seeds form. And those are the same fennel seeds that you might buy at your local grocery store and add into stews or cakes, or something like that. And it's actually a wonderful medicinal herb as a digestive aid. So, all we need to do in order to harvest these seeds is wait until they're dried. And I wait until they dry on the plant and we can go ahead and come out with a knife or a nice sharp pair of scissors and just take off the heads of those. We can then brush off those seeds and allow them to sit into a dish. I'll usually make sure that they sit in a dry area and make sure that there's no bugs or any kind of parasites that may be growing on there. If so I may throw out those particular seeds that have an issue with them. Or I may just have to throw out the whole batch. So I usually keep different plants separate in different dishes. So once we've done that, we can either store them away to add into our cooking or we can go ahead and select the seeds that came from the very best plants for us to plant again next season. It's always helpful to go ahead and make sure that they stay dry in an air tight container. And I'll oftentimes store the seeds in the refrigerator to make sure that they don't degrade if I have to wait an entire to plant once again. So, this is Bob Linde, talking to you about how to harvest vegetable seeds, and in this case fennel seeds. So please enjoy your herbs.

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How to Harvest Seeds From a Vegetable Garden

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