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Do potatoes produce seeds that you can store and/or replant?
Most potatoes, as far as I know, have the ability to flower and set fruit. The fruits, known as berries, are small green globes reminiscent of tomatoes, which makes sense seeing as how they're in the ...
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Can I save broad bean seeds before they're dry?
Once the foliage dies back, the beans are mature, but must be dried. If you can't or don't want to dry them on the stalk, pull or cut the stems and hang them by the bases in a dry, airy place. Once ...
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Do potatoes produce seeds that you can store and/or replant?
The tubers that are used for "seed potatoes" are grown and harvested exactly the same way as other potatoes, except for one thing.
Like other members of the same plant family (e.g. tomatoes),...
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Can I save broad bean seeds before they're dry?
The pod is considered a specialised leaf structure, and in the Fabaceae family are formed from a single carpel, whereas in Brassica species it is formed from two fused carpels. Its role is to protect ...
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How should I store wildflower seeds embedded in a piece of cotton, for several months before planting?
What a nice gesture of this animal hospital, sorry to hear about your loss.
The best way to keep these seeds is in a dry and cool environment. So not in the fridge (too much moist), and not above the ...
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Should I cut the top off of this bolting lettuce?
Bolting in the fall is the normal time for lettuce to go to seed. To gather seed is a bigger more complicated task. If you didn't purchase viable seed or if that seed is GMO just will not work at ...
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How do I save lilac seeds?
Growing lilacs from seeds isn’t easy, but it can be done. It can take up to three or four years for a seed-propagated lilac to bloom, though, so you’ll have to be patient and just enjoy watching the ...
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Will sunflower seeds that have been left out all winter germinate?
If they're still there (not eaten, bored into, etc), then yes, they will grow. I have sunflowers naturalized along the woods' edge in one spot. They return year after year on their own.
If you want ...
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Regrow beans from the garden
Yes, you need to leave them on the plant longer. We eat green beans when they are still immature. To harvest for seed, leave the pods on the plant until they are dry and brittle. You can then crack ...
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Brassicas seed saving
I guess you can do it as for other varieties?
http://seedworld.com/cross-pollination-8/
Cover the flower heads.
This technique (also known as "bagging") will need to be done before the flowers ...
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Storing Garlic for Seed
One opinion here http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/garlic/save-garlic-next-year.htm
Proper storage is also crucial when saving garlic stock for planting. While garlic will keep for a short ...
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Should I cut the top off of this bolting lettuce?
Taste it. Usually when lettuce bolts it's time to pull the plant, as it turns horribly bitter. If you like bitter lettuce that may not be a problem for you. It commonly happens as the weather heats up ...
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Should I cut the top off of this bolting lettuce?
Unless you are interested in harvesting seeds, it makes sense to cut off the top. I had to do that for my lettuce as well. I also noted that the leaves from the lettuce started tasting bitter right ...
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What should I do with unplanted narcissus/daffodil onions outside of planting season?
Plant them now, although I doubt you'll get any flowers this year. Don't remove the leaves before they completely fade. You can keep the bulbs in the ground without taking them out every year until ...
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Do potatoes produce seeds that you can store and/or replant?
There are already good general answers to this question, but I will add a couple of specifics. La Ratte is male and female fertile variety, so it is capable of producing seeds without a pollinator. ...
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Can you save seeds from Zolushka potatoes grown from true potato seed (TTS)?
I can't tell you whether your Zolushka potato seeds will grow into plants that produce fruit readily or not - whilst potato plants may flower, they often do not produce fruit, the flower just withers. ...
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Harvesting sunflower seeds and planting the same year
Based on this abstract Sunflower seeds are dormant at harvest time. They need a period of cold conditions to break this dormancy. It's a biological mechanism to prevent the plant from sprouting ...
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What vegetables/seeds/fruits at the grocery store can be viably replanted?
I know I start nearly every garden from store leftovers.
I buy organic rainbow carrots and an "Alaskan-grown" orange variety I don't know. Right before the time they get old and rubbery, most sprout ...
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Brassicas seed saving
Cover the plants with lightweight fabric or row covers, and hand pollinate them yourself. It's a lot of work, and keep in mind that brassicas are biennial so you'll have to wait until year 2 to get ...
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Can I harvest and plant vegetable seeds in the same season?
Note: often harvesting and seeding is not done in the same periods, also on nature. We harvest early, and seeds are not quickly planted. Usually they stay much time in the flower, than they fall, but ...
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Can I harvest and plant vegetable seeds in the same season?
It's difficult to say with certainty for every kind of vegetable seed (they're not all identical). However, I can say with surety that domestic tomatoes don't have a dormancy period (at least the ...
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How to separate seeds from chaff (husk)?
Personally I would start by picking out the large debris with my hand. From there, I've seen people take the seeds and place them in a shallow dish, tilt the dish, and gentle blow the chaff away - ...
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What should I consider before vacuum-sealing seeds for storage?
The enemies of seeds are: heat, light and humidity, by controlling these you can store some seeds for many years.
Keep seeds at a cool to cold temperature of 40 degrees or less.
Avoid fluctuations in ...
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What do globe amaranth seeds look like, and can I harvest them from dried flowers?
Time to take your flowers apart:
Separate the individual bracts and look at (or feel) their base. If they contain a seed, you can feel the hard lump inside. Pull the bract apart and you should find ...
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How long do peanut seeds stay viable?
Short question, short answer. Peanuts when harvested and stored properly can retain viability up to 3 years frozen, 1 year at room temperature. Longer viability correlates with low moisture content, ...
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How do you collect and keep cucumber seeds for planting the next year?
Saving cucumber seeds is easy. Save them from what you would consider overipe fruits - that are yellow. Even using ones starting to dry out or rot is OK as long as the rot has not invaded the seed ...
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What vegetables/seeds/fruits at the grocery store can be viably replanted?
There are four main problems I see with planting seeds from grocery store produce.
They might be genetically engineered, unless they're certified organic.
They might be patented or protected by plant ...
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How can I harvest my own grass seed?
I simply used a shop vac. Just clean it out really good then turn it on and walk across your lawn in a sweeping motion accumulating the seeds.
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Can I grow pineapple plants from seed, rather than crowns?
I put down twenty pineapple seeds picked out of fruit. Placed in seedling box with lid sprinkled soil over. Only one came up but its been 2 months n starting to look good
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What is the result of "unpredictable" cross-pollination of beets?
I've had both beets and chard naturalize in my garden, and the resulting hybrid is always more chard-like than beet-like. The chard grows like a weed, and is hard to stamp out, but the beet is more ...
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