I've saved and successfully used bean seeds, but somehow that just feels like it doesn't count, haha. Last year I let my lettuce and an overwintered carrot bolt and go to seed and harvested and dried the spent flowers, but thanks to my laziness they're still sitting in a paper bag awaiting me to get the seeds off if I can... I let an overwintered kale plant bolt this year and have a huge potential seed harvest there. I'm also letting an overwintered beet go. I'm really curious about that one. Oh, I guess I do regularly save my heirloom tomato seeds, haha, that counts! Thanks for the spinach seed tutorial!
Saving bean seeds totally counts! I haven't had to buy scarlet runner beans in years due to always saving a ton. Did you have any lettuce that reseeded itself and came up on its own? Most of my lettuce this year (all buttercrunch) was all from the plants bolting and reseeding. I didn't plant any this year. I have an overwintered beet as well, but the seeds still don't look mature to me yet. Its growing out of the bottom outside of one of my raised beds. I keep mowing around it, but its getting pretty bushy and starting to annoy me. lol
@@oneseedoneworld That's some pretty serious success with your scarlet runners! This year I planted my entire bed of butterbeans with saved seeds - I think I may never need to buy those again either 😁 Yes! I did actually have some volunteer lettuces from the bolted plants. I was surprised because I had dug up that entire raised bed to add some filler to the base and completely disrupted the soil. I wonder if I would have had an entire nice bed of lettuce if I hadn't had to do that. Maybe I'll get them all to just reseed this year. That would be amazing. Lol at the annoying beet 😂 mine doesn't look quite mature either. I wonder if it plans on dragging this out until fall??
Everything you said we've seen in our garden. Thank you
I've saved and successfully used bean seeds, but somehow that just feels like it doesn't count, haha. Last year I let my lettuce and an overwintered carrot bolt and go to seed and harvested and dried the spent flowers, but thanks to my laziness they're still sitting in a paper bag awaiting me to get the seeds off if I can... I let an overwintered kale plant bolt this year and have a huge potential seed harvest there. I'm also letting an overwintered beet go. I'm really curious about that one. Oh, I guess I do regularly save my heirloom tomato seeds, haha, that counts!
Thanks for the spinach seed tutorial!
Saving bean seeds totally counts! I haven't had to buy scarlet runner beans in years due to always saving a ton. Did you have any lettuce that reseeded itself and came up on its own? Most of my lettuce this year (all buttercrunch) was all from the plants bolting and reseeding. I didn't plant any this year.
I have an overwintered beet as well, but the seeds still don't look mature to me yet. Its growing out of the bottom outside of one of my raised beds. I keep mowing around it, but its getting pretty bushy and starting to annoy me. lol
@@oneseedoneworld That's some pretty serious success with your scarlet runners! This year I planted my entire bed of butterbeans with saved seeds - I think I may never need to buy those again either 😁
Yes! I did actually have some volunteer lettuces from the bolted plants. I was surprised because I had dug up that entire raised bed to add some filler to the base and completely disrupted the soil. I wonder if I would have had an entire nice bed of lettuce if I hadn't had to do that. Maybe I'll get them all to just reseed this year. That would be amazing.
Lol at the annoying beet 😂 mine doesn't look quite mature either. I wonder if it plans on dragging this out until fall??