Welcome back, we are going to talk about saving some of your seeds.s
What we have here is a zucchini. I’ll let this sit on the ground brown for about six weeks before I pick it. Then I’ll cut and it has been drying here in the kitchen for another two weeks or so. Cut it like that. Now, you don’t have to do it exactly like this.
All right now, we open it up. What we are looking for—now in doing this, I damaged some of the seeds. So like that, these seeds have been cut, they’re no good. I guess I should’ve dice it instead of doing that.
What we are going to do now is we are going to just scoop them out. What I’m doing here is after some type of end of the world as we know—after some type of cataclysmic bird flu, some type of meteor hit the earth situation, the only long term solution for food is gardening. I’m a firm believer in gardening. I have three gardens right now that I am taking care of. This is just practicing for whenever you do have to save your seeds, you will be able to know how to do it. Plus, if you do garden, I’ve heard that whenever you have seeds that grew from a plant in your area, they’ll be better adapted to your type of soil.
We have all these seeds that we have. The next step is we are going to put them into a strainer. And I can go down to the store and buy these seeds for about a dollar, they’re cheap. Just don’t buy them at Walmart, Kmart, place like that. Find yourself a family-owned, locally-owned feed and fertilizer store and you can get them pretty cheap. You go down to some place like Lowes, or Walmart, Kmart, any place that sells seeds. You will be paying pretty good bit of money. Support the local business, support the local small people. Next thing we do is we wash them off. Try to get as much of the plant off the seed as possible to help prevent mold growth, we’re going to wash them off—
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