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Saving seed for next season

barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
in Fruit & veg
I was taking advantage of some cut price seed offers from an online retailer and while filling my basket looked at seeds for sowing next year in particular runner bean seeds, this year I have sown runner bean seed saved from last year, usually I will sow them direct but decided to sow them at home in toilet roll tubes and within a week they are already showing and will need planting out in a week or so. The seed from the retailer are over £4 for a packet of 50 seeds where collecting seed from the plant costs zero, I think that it's well worth the time to do so.

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  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    We tend to collect flower seeds for next year rather than veg ones but have over the years harvested some. We do though look towards the end of the season in various outlets and get some great bargains with half prices for seeds that are still "viable".
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    All members of the pea and bean family can be 'home saved'.  Apart from nil cost and no need to spend time looking for cheap seed in the shops, one can save hundreds of your own seed at season's end.  With a good stock, any experimental plantings can be done, e.g. abnormally early, but replaced if/when they fail.  Nothing lost.
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