Collecting seeds is one of my favorite end-of-season gardening activities. It’s sad to see the garden come to an end. Harvesting seeds is like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!
Bunny’s Garden will focus a lot on collecting seeds for next season’s planting and for trading with gardener friends. Seed swaps can be a ton of fun and it’s way more exciting and meaningful when you collect your own seeds.
Saving canna lily seeds is quick, easy and fun! The jet-black seeds are round and hard like mini marbles. These seeds also store very well! Learn how to harvest canna lily seeds if you want to try growing your own tropical perennials from seed. Lush, tropical leaves give cannas their distinctly exotic yet carefree appearance….
Growing your own basil seems to be a rite of passage for gardeners of all experience levels. If, like me, you’ve also fallen in love with basil, you simply must discover how to harvest basil seeds for next season. Harvesting basil seeds isn’t my favorite part of growing basil, but it’s necessary and worthwhile. Sometimes…
Saving green bean seeds at the end of the season lets you enjoy your crops both in the growing season and year after year. Learn how to save bean seeds so you can always grow your favorite green bean varieties! By the way – Figuring out how to save bean seeds for planting is easy…
Do you love seeing the beautiful flowers in your garden staring back at you every day? I sure do! I especially love the ones that keep on blooming all season long, like Cosmos flowers. Try harvesting cosmos seeds so you can effortlessly grow these pretty flowers year after year! Before you learn how to harvest…
Growing squash in the garden is even more fun when you’ve saved the seeds yourself! We tried a delicious recipe in the fall and I saved seeds to grow our own. Here are some tips on harvesting acorn squash seeds! BTW – for the record, the acorn squash we roasted with brown sugar, cinnamon, and…
Learn how to save cantaloupe seeds so you can grow delicious orange melons for your family! Saving cantaloupe seeds is quick, easy, and fun for garden-loving kids to lend a hand. You can save cantaloupe seeds from homegrown or store-bought cantaloupes. Once we had the most delicious store-bought cantaloupe – and I typically don’t care…
Did you know you can get free Live Monarch seeds to plant in your own garden? The Live Monarch Foundation will send you free milkweed seeds for a self-addressed, stamped envelope. To best support saving the monarch butterflies, please also consider buying more seeds or better yet, starter milkweed plants. You can make a donation…
Prepare to be dazzled! While you may be used to traditional dark golden popcorn kernels from the store, you can actually grow and save glass gem corn seeds and other varieties of flint corn as popcorn kernels. Glass gem corn comes in gorgeous colors like pink, purple, blue, and green. It’s a kind of flint…
Decorating the house with gourds is a fun way to update your décor for fall. After Thanksgiving, we send our old pumpkins and gourds to the recycling center. After I harvest gourd seeds from our favorite ones, of course! Besides, half the fun of growing pumpkins and gourds is using them in your fall decorating!…
Harvesting lettuce seeds is one of those garden tasks you usually end up doing on a whim. It’s fun, quick and easy to learn how to harvest lettuce seeds and I’m happy to show you how. All you need is a pair of scissors, a paper bag, and a permanent marker when collecting lettuce seeds….