Cleaning Your Seeds

Seeds harvested from your garden come in two forms:

They are either wet seeds or dry seeds.  Depending on what kind they are determines how you clean and save them.

Harvesting Seeds

Seed harvesting and cleaning techniques fall into two main categories according to whether the fruits and seeds are dry or wet when mature (actually, a third category exists of seeds which will die if dried out after maturing... see Preparing Seeds for Storage).

Seed Saving Handbook

This is a very important resource. Do keep it somewhere so you can find it. http://howtosaveseeds.com/index.php

Linda's Note: heirloom seeds are antiques.

• They are not modern hybrids, but come from the ancient plant stocks.  They are important because hybrids, although they may be prolific, extra-large, more colorful varieties, or whatever… tend to be more susceptible to disease and disaster. 
•  Additionally, hybrid seeds are either incapable of reproducing at all, or incapable of reproducing themselves. Each successive generation must be re-created in the laboratory garden or test tube.
• Today, it’s hard to know whether or not a seed, plant or crop is a natural one or whether or not it has been genetically altered. If you are concerned about the as yet unknown and untested consequences of genetically altered foods, you will want to grow your own from heirloom seeds.

Here is a brief synopsis

of some general information you need to know.