How to Harvest Sunflower Seeds For Planting Or Eating

07/09/2022 by Jeremy Starke

How to Harvest Sunflower Seeds [Beginner’s Guide]

Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus), are an absolute must-have in your summer garden. Gardeners love them because they’re easy to grow and generate colorful seed heads. In addition, their golden yellow flower petals are a sight to behold in full bloom.

These annual flowers are available in over 70 distinct types; each other sunflower variety has its unique form, size, and color palette. Different flower varieties in a large variety of hues and textures can make your landscape and cut flower bouquets look amazing.

Their massive seed heads are harvested and dried for a variety of uses by many home gardeners.

You can keep some raw seeds in an envelope for replanting, eat roasted seeds for a nutritious snack, or added to your bird feeder.

Are you ready to learn how to harvest sunflower seeds?

Why Are Heirlooms Important To Food Security

11/02/202007/21/2020 by Jeremy Starke

Why Are Heirlooms Important To Food Security?

Last updated 07/21/20

I think you’ll agree that asking the question, are heirlooms important to food security is sound reasoning. The logic is self-evident if you realize that the seeds we know and plant today were handed down through generations.

Imagine if people then didn’t keep them and were lost forever? It would be utter chaos, hunger, civil disorder and strife wouldn’t it!

Luckily plants were nurtured, saved and developed for our sake and those to follow.

How Long Are Vegetable Seeds Good For | Chart & Storage Guide

10/31/202109/08/2019 by Jeremy Starke

How Long Are Vegetable Seeds Good For | Chart & Storage Guide

Last updated: 10/31/21

Despite looking brittle and dry, vegetable seeds may, in fact, be very much alive and carrying the embryo of what will in the future grow to be a full-sized plant.

Many vegetable seeds have the ability to stay viable for years. However, some, including onions seeds, deteriorate in less than a year

How to Separate Pumpkin Seeds from Strings

10/31/202108/29/2019 by Jeremy Starke

How to Separate Pumpkin Seeds from Strings

Last updated: 10/31/21

If Halloween is celebrated in your area, then chances are that you’ve tried roasted pumpkin seeds.

This is a favorite Halloween treat for many people. My 2 girls and I love carving pumpkins and eating pumpkin seeds. We love to roast the pumpkin seeds to eat as it makes for a great healthy snack.

You might be wondering if there is a good method on how to separate pumpkin seeds from strings.

How do you deal with that mess of pumpkin seeds and pulp to get those seeds for a delicious snack? Well, that’s a thing that we’ve also wondered about long ago. But now, knowing the secret (not really), we want to share with you how to separate pumpkin seeds from strings!

Seed Saving Fundamentals | Establish a Legacy

10/30/202108/28/2019 by Jeremy Starke

Seed Saving Fundamentals | Establish a Legacy

Last updated: 10/30/21

Saving seeds is a skill that is as old as man cultivating the lands for survival. The bible has many parables about seed saving and sowing all throughout it. You know that having your own supply packet of seeds is definitely a good practice of preparedness. Are you really prepared enough though?

Acquiring your own supply of survival seeds in your storage is a start. It is vital & beneficial to learn the skills of saving seeds for your long term survival. You will want to practice this skill each year in order to forge this as one of your tools for survival.

Learning this will guarantee that you know what to do if called upon. You might even get some prize-winning tomatoes out of it.

How to Save Melon Seeds (Easy Cantaloupe Seed Saving Guide)

10/30/202109/29/2018 by Jeremy Starke

How to Save Melon Seeds (Easy Cantaloupe Seed Saving Guide)

You will learn a very easy technique on saving your melon seeds. Melon seeds saving ensure that you can grow the same melons as you did for the next year.

The Dirt on Saving Tomato Seeds | 3 Easy ways

10/30/202109/07/2018 by Jeremy Starke

The Dirt on Saving Tomato Seeds | 3 Easy ways

Last updated: 9/17/18

Take a poll of all your family and friends and ask what vegetable would they would grow. You will probably hear growing tomatoes as one of the most popular vegetables growing choices.

It seems that most gardeners always brag about their tomatoes when asked about their progress of your their garden.

You might be one of those garden newbies who just planted the first tomato plant that you grabbed at the local hardware store or garden nursery. Have you ever thought about actually growing tomatoes from seed? It really is not too difficult to grow them from seed, so why not save the tomato seeds from one of your plants this year.

You have a few options on how you want to save tomato seeds. All of these different ways to save tomato seeds are not too difficult to do. In fact, one of the ways is so simple that it takes no effort on your part to do it.

The 3 ways are 1. Do nothing and let nature save them for you, 2. Put some more effort into it, to save the seeds, and the last option is to 3. Maximize your chances of saving the seeds for multiple years.

These tips can be applied to any type of tomatoes such as cherry, Roma, big beef, Brandywine and many more different tomato varieties. Let’s get into the dirt of saving tomato seeds and saving them like a Green Thumb Gardener.

How to save Lettuce Seeds | Simple Guide to Collecting Seeds

10/30/202107/30/2018 by Jeremy Starke

How to save Lettuce Seeds | Simple Guide to Collecting Seeds

Last updated:10/30/21

Have you always wanted to know how to save lettuce seeds? Did you just harvest romaine lettuce from your garden? Do you want to continue to grow the lettuce that you just picked? It is so easy to collect and save lettuce seeds that you will be amazed that you didn’t start sooner.

The summer days are much longer like the days of June & July creep in. All of a sudden the leaves start to taste a little bitter & the lettuce plant may bolt. Well, it is time for the lettuce plant to start reproducing itself.

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Bolting Lettuce | Saving lettuce seeds | Its a good thing

10/30/202107/28/2018 by Jeremy Starke

Bolting Lettuce | Saving lettuce seeds | Its a good thing This is a simple way to determine if your lettuce is bolting and getting ready to seed. This is helpful if you want to know how to save lettuce seeds. How to know when your lettuce is bolting or going to seed. Romaine Parris … Read more