Saving Seeds for Beans
Part of my gardening includes saving seeds from some crops to plant next year. Beans are among the easiest crops for gardeners to save. The risk of cross-pollination is low, and cleaning the seeds is mostly a matter of shelling them out, sorting through to remove any that look “off,” and waiting for them to dry before storing them in the fridge.
I usually place my seeds in the chest freezer for a few days after they seem very dry, before moving them into the fridge with the rest of the seeds, just in case there are any hitch-hiking critters in the seeds that might cause trouble in storage. These in the picture are almost dry enough to store.
Bush bean seeds to plant next year. |
This is not the only variety of beans that I am growing and saving. The beans in the picture above are from some “Provider” bush bean plants, and the others, that only recently reached maturity, are my friend Becky’s “Joanie beans.”
Even though the risk of cross-pollination with beans is fairly low, I planted the Joanie Beans much later than the Provider beans, so there would be no chance of crossing between the varieties.
For all kinds of beans, it’s best to leave the pods hanging on the plants until they are brown and dry before bringing them in to shell out for sorting and saving the seeds. As the Providers were reaching that stage, there was a lot of rain in the forecast, and I had to bring them in a little sooner than I would have preferred; if they had been left out in the rain, the risk of mold on the beans would have gone way up.
Most of the beans look good, though. For my little garden, the amount in the basket above is enough for two or three years of planting. That is very good news for my seed-budget!
Source: http://atlantaveggies.blogspot.com/2014/09/saving-seeds-for-beans.html
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