Saving Seeds- Start Saving Cucumber Seeds - Part one

My cucumbers are being ready to harvest. This means I can also start to save my seeds, for next year. I ordered this cucumbers are from Self Survival Essentials, and are organic heirloom seeds.

July 24, 2014

Some people people leave the cucumber on the vine until it is huge and yellow. I personal don't do that. Or at least not on purpose. I just use the cucumber seeds that come out when I cut my cucumbers.

My cucumber seeds

If you ever look at a cucumber seed that comes out of a cucumber, it has a mucus cover the seeds. The mucus comes off by fermenting it. I start to fermenting process today. 

The seeds in the jar 

The start of this process is two put the seeds in water. You will see some seeds sink and some float. I just leave them there for now. I will leave the jar uncover and on the counter for 4-5 days

on the counter for the 4-5 days. 

Come back in a week and seed how I get the bad seeds seprated from the good seeds and dry them. 

Are you saving your seeds this year? 

Saving Seeds - Zucchini Researching How to Save Seeds

Mmm freshly grown Zucchini 

This is goal is to save my seeds so next years garden isn't costly. Hubby and I discussed over the winter that we would buy non-GMO seeds save them throughout the year. This will provide our family with a low costing organic, healthy, and non-GMO. We found this awesome site that had the seeds we wanted, you can check out the site here 55 Variety Non-GMO Heirloom Emergency Survival Garden Seed Bank. I have one huge problem! I don't know how to save seeds and never done it before. 

While looking up ways to save zucchini seed I came across this awesome video. This video is really informative and I'm so thankful that this gentleman took the time to make this video for us to watch. While watching this video I found out that you do not have to ferment the zucchini seeds.

Thank you eHow for the picture

Then I searched the web for some website to help me confirm the new knowledge that I found . I went to one of my favorite sites eHow And found the article How to Save Zucchini Seeds. Linda Mitchell Has a well-written article about saving zucchini seeds. The best part about this article is it tells you how to know which zucchinis to save the seeds from. 

I love watching them grow

Now that I've done on my research savings Zucchini seeds not seem to be that hard. This weekend I am going to make my seed saving tray and then start to save my Zucchini seeds! Are you saving seeds this year? If so what kind?