Master Gardener Laura Simpson answers your questions and offers gardening tips.
Has anyone ever developed a list of vegetables and fruits that can or can’t be grown from seeds from the seeds of what you buy from the stores to eat? If so, what kinds of things do you have to do to have a better chance of getting them to grow? What about seeds and pits from store-bought fruit?
With a bit of effort and a sense of adventure , one can certainly save seeds for next year’s garden. As you’ve noticed, you can harvest viable seeds from store-bought sweet peppers and get quite a lot of them from a single pepper. Tomatoes, too, can yield plenty of viable seeds. We did this with a variety pack of “heirloom” tomatoes and the resulting plants produced fruit that was similar to the source fruit.
Other garden vegetables can be left to flower and set seed. Carrots, leafy greens, herbs, radishes, beets, parsnips, onions and garlic will form seed heads which can then be saved for future use. We’ve had “volunteers” come up all over our garden due to dropped seeds germinating in random places. One spring we even had a head of lettuce appear in our front yard!
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