Never Buy Seeds Again -- How to Collect Spinach Seeds

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Collecting spinach seeds is easy but the process from start to finish can take months. Gardener Scott shows how to collect spinach seeds by identifying their unique growth, harvesting when dry, and saving the seeds for storage. (Video #255)
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@simplifygardening 3 жыл бұрын

When you can save your own seed, your the master of your garden. It makes no difference on whats happening in the world you have the control. Great video Scott

@DebRoo11 3 жыл бұрын

Until we 'won't own anything and be happy'. Some places are already putting restrictions on having a vegetable garden or even collecting rain water.

@Deep.Purple Жыл бұрын

Until they outlaw growing your own food which .. unfortunately the WEF has been saying we'll need to do in the future.

@theorangetreehomestead6660 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! The less we can rely on seed companies the better.

@Bryan-or2wf 3 жыл бұрын

The more seed the better!

@tobaccoman1542 Ай бұрын

Literally was half way through pulling up my bolted spinach patch when I thought maybe I should save some seeds, and here we are lol

@Scott3387 3 жыл бұрын

Gardener Scott now has enough seed for half of colorado. It's amazing the sheer quantity you get from one plant of things like lettuce etc.

@SpiceyKy 3 жыл бұрын

I have a bok choy plant I'm trying to collect seeds from. It's taking forever and I need the space. Sigh 😕 😞 😌

@elchefreedom5063 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, always 👀 eyes peeled for helpful little creatures 🤙🏽

@matthewrisley9070 3 жыл бұрын

Spinach can be hard to keep True-to-Type! According to "The Seed Garden", a great book from seed savers exchange, there are a few factors to look out for: Spinach is dioecious meaning each plant is either male or female, so you'll have to leave at least a handful to bolt. The other big one is the pollen is INCREDIBLY fine, you can't use mesh to protect from cross pollination. They recommend spacing out different varieties of spinach up to 1 mile apart. So if you have neighbors growing spinach for seed, try to coordinate to use the same varieties to keep your seeds true to type! Would love to know some of your tricks on how you do it!

@therealrobbdee672 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's all very good info

@GardenerScott 3 жыл бұрын

A big factor in avoiding cross pollination is to only allow one open pollinated variety to flower at a time. I'm lucky that my neighbors are not gardening to collect seed.

@rai55 3 жыл бұрын

Gardener Scott does it again - I JUST sowed matador spinach seeds in my raised bed 🌱

@ancientgardening6920 3 жыл бұрын

I always used to recite along with your opening mantra "a master gardener that discusses everything gardening so that you don't have to", and somewhere along the way I kept mutating it. If you need a sterile work space in a pinch, you can open a phone book to a new page and it's about the cleanest surface available to work at while setting things up, if you only need to do a little and are in a hurry. Even a perfectly clean looking counter collects a good sample of dust in just a day.

@theUrbanGardener 3 жыл бұрын

Great video Scott, I really like to save seeds of many plant varieties in the garden. Starting from seed can be an inexpensive way to start a garden, but saving by saving your seed you won't need to buy again for next season.

@TheSoviet3838 3 жыл бұрын

Seed saving is my big focus for this years garden. Definitely appreciate this! Really like that you're one of the few that cuts videos together over long periods of growing. That garlic one was a big help.

@kjrchannel1480 3 жыл бұрын

I have 3 #10 cans full of spinach seed heads. I know I will never use them all especially when they are easy to self seed by falling on the ground. Saving Radish seeds is easier if you ask me. In these past days I went outside in the morning and saw frost on the outer edges of the Radish seedlings I planted a week before. I planted some of those from saved seed to. A Big Seed company decided not to sell them this year, so I'm glad I saved some. It isn't spring yet in my opinion. Even though the last frost is about May 1. It makes no sense to plant nightshades until the end of May to be safe if you don't have backup plants. That is where having a small and manageable greenhouse comes in handy. That is unless a wind storm doesn't damage it. This virus situation has really made some seed choices even smaller. Not even the Bonnie offerings are as diverse.

@crochetingaroundnewzealand 2 жыл бұрын

I planted some silver beet and spinach in my front flower garden and forgot about them over winter. Went out to weed last week and found heaps of new plants growing. They were sheltered from the frosts under the huge geranium bush. I transplanted them into my little summer vege garden by the back door, where I can quickly grab things for dinner. I even found some new plants in the grass near the edge of the geranium bush.

@therealrobbdee672 3 жыл бұрын

When Gardener Scott was separating the seed from the dried foliage, reminded of breaking up a plate full of old Reggie for some reason

@carolynsteele5116 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! So perfect! I save many seeds from my garden but couldn’t figure out spinach seeds.

@linsaficken9746 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing. My first time to see where the spinach seeds are on the plant.

@criddyla696 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff, mine are still green so need a while yet

@dianneb208 3 жыл бұрын

I am enjoying your videos. Well done and knowledgeable. I wish you had mentioned spinach has male and female plants. If a new gardener only leaves one plant to go to seed, they won't be successful.

@GardenerScott 3 жыл бұрын

You're right. Spinach is dioecious. I think many gardeners are growing multiple plants, and that is necessary for seeds.

@GrowingwithGeorge 3 жыл бұрын

Another great video!! Can’t wait to continuously ue my gardening journey as I’m moving to Virginia from Colorado!! Going to 7a!! I also have 200 chili starts I germinated in February not knowing the change was going to happen! Needless to say they will be in a U-haul trailer towed behind our Vehicle!!

@tamararoberts9307 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite insect is the praying mantis

@adiradixie9938 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@thomasleebrown3136 Жыл бұрын

Thank You for the information .

@setapartartist Жыл бұрын

Thank you for all the details. Being totally new to gardening, I need the most basic lessons and they are hard to find!

@ejfishes7610 3 жыл бұрын

I’m going to give this a try this season. Thank you Gardener Scott!

@BoltActionBob 3 жыл бұрын

Such good info! Thank you GS!

@lesijo52 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Gardener Scott! Another excellent video! I bought a t-shirt like you were wearing in the first part of the video, for myself. And I bought one for my dad like the one you were wearing later on. Excellent word-play on them. I appreciate it. Take good care, Leslie

@heidiclark6612 3 жыл бұрын

Great information on spinach seed saving! I will have to try this.

@drawingmomentum 3 жыл бұрын

Whew. So glad I started 2 var of heirloom spinach seeds about a week ago. They're already sprouting! 🙌 😃 Now I know how to have seeds for next year! ...Love ur buggy friend that came to visit! 🌱🌻

@KASUM369 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Scotty 👍

@michaelmarchione3408 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I'll have to try that this year! That is the way I collect my poppy seeds. Thanks for the informative video!

@aldermaninbox4959 3 ай бұрын

This is a great video!

@yvencia1150 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing 😇

@frankbarnwell____ 3 жыл бұрын

planting a LOT today. but not spinach. But It'll be useful, darn sure, someday. nice preying mantis shot. Saw one dining on a red wasp many years ago. Queen of the garden bugs .

@ExistNNature 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@kritimalhotra5279 Жыл бұрын

Really amazing and informative video

@theelpydimension 3 жыл бұрын

Great advice & video, thank you for sharing this. I think sometimes it's easy to be almost intimidated by the idea then you collect some and wow, it feels good. My first experience was with mizuna mustard greens last year. Patience is no doubt a virtue though when waiting for them to dry.

@rick6605 3 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to performing some basic plant breeding (trait selection) via seed saving this year. If I can better adapt my purchased heirloom seeds to my little spot of Ohio, that’s a win! I’m curious regarding how slowly or quickly this change can happen. Thanks all!

@markum5094 3 жыл бұрын

The Keeper of the seeds

@Gkrissy 3 жыл бұрын

Great video and so timely because 2 of my cabbage plants have bolted due to extreme temperatures in zone 7b and I was wondering if I could save the seeds and eat the cabbage leaves.thanks Gardener Scott for the cardboard box tip to keep it dry

@tirusew 3 жыл бұрын

You say don’t buy then you buy them. Thanks for the vodeo

@johnjude2685 3 жыл бұрын

I'm planning to seed my carrots, I'm raising 3 types so if I love what I have I do plan to seed em as your carrot video teaching Sir Thanks for the seeding information. Next advice for my canolope we love Iroquois canolope and raise them for 40 years most summers. Thanks

@roydodd4694 2 ай бұрын

❤❤it😊😊

@miamited69 3 жыл бұрын

A file folder instead of the paper makes it easy to pour into the jar.

@firegrillin365 5 ай бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

@thinktank8286 3 жыл бұрын

Boy is this a great channel for new people. How does one know if a seed packet at the store will grow a plant that its seeds can be used next season? (I think I understand that if the pack says Heirloom, then those seeds will grow more useful seeds. But I'd the pack doesn't say heirloom do you assume it's a once and done seed?)

@GardenerScott 3 жыл бұрын

A pack should say hybrid if it is a hybrid. If it doesn't say hybrid, you can assume it is open pollinated, like an heirloom.

@lyndabuchholz1216 3 жыл бұрын

I have saved a lot of my seeds. I wish you did a video on how to get seeds from cabbage and other plants like that. I am in the North so can't leave plants in the garden they would be mush and I can't figure out how to replant in the spring to get seeds from the biennials.

@GardenerScott 3 жыл бұрын

I have many more videos planned for seed collecting and cabbage is on the list.

@lyndabuchholz1216 3 жыл бұрын

@@GardenerScott Wonderful!!!

@Bryan-or2wf 3 жыл бұрын

I prey my spinach will stop bolting!

@Ms19741979 37 минут бұрын

Can I pick the seeds green and just let them dry

@Bountifulgarden5 Жыл бұрын

Hi 👋🏻 I like you’re shirt where’d you buy it from ?

@GardenerScott Жыл бұрын

It's one of my shirts for sale, available through the links below my videos.

@living_in_wellness_gardening 11 ай бұрын

It looks like this video didn't get added to your playlist titled 'How to Collect and Save Seeds'... Any chance you could add it?!?! :)

@GardenerScott 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out. I added it.

@ATAPORGANIK1502DKS 3 жыл бұрын

We also never buy seeds Almost , we got from garbage of cake production or rest of the vegetables

@bjornwinsnes5279 17 күн бұрын

Great video, thanks! For how many years do you estimate that a batch like this is good? (= what's the best before date on this 2020 batch?)

@GardenerScott 16 күн бұрын

Thanks! They should last at least three years. I usually swap for newer ones in two years.

@thedvl69 Жыл бұрын

Just bought a greenhouse and a first timer. Spinach is one of my targeted plants for the greenhouse. I would like to have my own seeds from it as well. From my research (so far) I can harvest the spinach several times cutting it and letting it grow back. If I want seeds do I just let it grow from there? Will it still Bolt? I'm sure I will have a billion questions I hope I'm not too big a pain.

@GardenerScott Жыл бұрын

Yes, you can harvest spinach over and over through the cool season. Typically, once the high heat of summer hits it will begin to bolt and you just let it grow, flower, and seed.

@thedvl69 Жыл бұрын

@@GardenerScott How many times do you think it can be harvested? I read 3-4 times. Are there plants I can grow that I can just keep harvesting over the year if the greenhouse is kept in ideal conditions? A friend has a pepper plant that i know he has had a few years

@GardenerScott Жыл бұрын

It depends on weather, but 2-4 harvests are typical before the plants bolt. I've had cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers produce for many months in a greenhouse.

@thedvl69 Жыл бұрын

@@GardenerScott Thank you so much! Really appreciate your time.

@dancharak6300 3 жыл бұрын

Scott, Do you ever need to add soil to your raised beds? Do you have to add every year?

@GardenerScott 3 жыл бұрын

Once I do the initial fill I don't add more soil, but I do add organic matter each year.

@dancharak6300 3 жыл бұрын

@@GardenerScott that was my thought as well. Thank you.

@ssmith2608 2 жыл бұрын

Can you pick off the seeds when they are green then dry them off separately from the plant?

@GardenerScott 2 жыл бұрын

They probably won't be fully mature when green. That's a big reason to allow them to turn brown on the plant.

@ssmith2608 2 жыл бұрын

@@GardenerScott ok great thanks

@nancyjohnson7153 3 жыл бұрын

what kind of spinach plants are they? The ones I grew last year were small, low growing bunches. these look totally different. I never saw any seeds on the ones I grew

@ttb1513 3 жыл бұрын

When did you plant your spinach? Note what he said about planting for fall harvest: the plants never get stressed in the cool weather and so they never bot and go to seed.

@GardenerScott 3 жыл бұрын

As I mentioned in the video, they are Bloomsdale Long Standing.

@nancyjohnson7153 3 жыл бұрын

@@ttb1513 Thank you. I built my garden in late summer last year, so didn't have the chance for them to bolt. So, you're implying that all spinach plants will bolt if you plant early and give them the time. That's really helpful. Thank you.

@ttb1513 3 жыл бұрын

@@nancyjohnson7153 I remember the first time I planted cilantro seed. The package was labeled “fast bolting”. I thought fast must be a good thing. If you wanted coriander, the seed, yes. But if you wanted cilantro leaves which are best tasting before bolting, not so much. The first stretch of hot dry weather put the plants into preservation mode, focusing on producing seed. Basil is similar. Once it goes to seed, the leaves don’t taste the same. I’ve succeeded in delaying that with basil by harvesting or pruning any stem before it matures to go to seed. This also promotes new branches and a very bushy plant, producing vastly more leaves than with no pruning. I have not tried the same with cilantro. Yet. I only decided to plant so it matures in cooler weather. Experiment with spinach.