How to Save and Store Seeds in your Garden | Seed Saving for Beginners

Seed Saving is such a great thing to do, but it helps to know how to do it well. In this video I show you how to begin saving your own seeds in your garden or allotment - a great thing to save money, increase your yields, and develop abundance in your garden whether it's vegetables or flowers!

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0:00 Intro
0:44 Seed saving in Autumn
1:38 Before you save your own seed
5:05 How to save your own seed
5:40 How to save bean seeds
7:04 How to save pea seeds
8:37 How to save flower seeds
10:22 One last thing!

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[niallgardens]

Let me know what seeds you’re saving in your gardens / allotments, and why! I always love hearing from you ❤️

[spudsandroses]

You are so good at poetically and calmly explaining all the gardening topics 💚🌿

[peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo]

Good morning Niall,
Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b 🇺🇲 👩‍🌾👍
I have been saving seeds for decades! I think it is a miracle each time they germinate.
Nice video, stay warm 👩‍🌾👍

[davidnicholson]

Hi from Houston Texas. Great video. Loved seeing some of your flowers. I'll be planting sweet peas on our Thanksgiving holiday, the third week in November. Hope mine look as good as yours. Thanks for the channel. Look forward to it every week.

[jasminelouisefarrall]

So rewarding saving seeds 🥰 Thank You Niall for sharing this 🥰

[wildchook]

Saving seeds is one of my favourite things to do in the garden. I have a few lettuces going to seeds that I cannot wait to collect.

[myrustygarden]

Morning Niall, I tend to collect from the beds but leave my “stairs of pots” section and cut back in spring the birds can have those 😂😂. Thank you for sharing ✌️🇨🇦🐝 safe

[nannaungerlanng]

I recently moved and wanted to bring as much from my old garden with me, so I have saved loads of seeds! Everything from parsley, mint, salvia, tomatoes, to the wildflowers like corncockle, marsh mallow, and buttercups. It's always interesting to see, what grows from them.

[kathystarnes]

I save seeds every year. Marigolds, garden phlox, lantana, salvia, hardy hibiscus, echinacea, petunias and many more! Love it!

[maricelpagalan]

Today I saved some carnation seeds that survived our extreme summer heat. I try many plants to see what grows well in my dry, hot climate. Then I propagate those plants. And some of them set seed themselves. I saved so many zinnia seeds last year too.

[annemccarthy]

Hi Niall I really enjoy your videos love the autumn colours intro. This is a great video on seed saving. This year I'm saving and sharing Sweet William, Black Hollyhock, Poppy, Nasturtium and Cosmos seeds.

[jeffreyrossi]

Yes seed saving is something I need to get better at now that I've adopted your tin method. It is interesting how some plants self seed all over the yard. Out here in North Dakota you will still find new generations of plants at old abandoned homesteads like the hollyhocks, dill, blue Siberian squill, rhubarbs, asparagus, currents: homesteading plants that could take the winters here. I have even found seedlings of lilacs which I have never seen back in Rhode Island. I often wonder of the hope the settlers must have had when for the first time they planted those precious few save seeds or that sucker of a lilac bush to plant next to the outhouse.

[Sharonmarieb]

I’m saving impatient seeds, morning glory, and larkspur!!😊

[LizZorab]

Loved this video Niall. I've shared it on FB.😀

[geraldinekelly]

Brilliant video Niall, thank you. This is my first time saving and am collecting sweet pea, sunflower and pumpkin seeds. Next growing season I hope to be planting and growing a lot more so hopefully have more seeds to sow... fingers crossed!! Thank you again x

[McNeep]

Great video as always! I have saved some seeds this year, peas, beans, mangetout & lupin.

[beckyscheller]

Saving cosmos, sunflower, marigolds, Cleome seeds. Sunflowers for the birds and to plant next spring.

[bernadettesullivan]

Hi Niall, 🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂I’ve been so busy trying to keep on top of the composting this last 2weeks that I’ve forgotten about collecting more seeds thanks for the timely reminder, although I I had collected some at the beginning of October like cosmos, snapdragon, sweet pea, lupin and marigold, but so many of the seeds weren’t dry enough so I decided to leave them for another few weeks ‘ So back to seed collecting tomorrow, Thanks Again look forward to your videos very much 🌾🍃🌿☘️🌻🌸🌞🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁

[geraldinecampbell]

Oh where do I start Niall!! I've saved marigolds, tagetes, cornflower, visa, pansies, nasturtiums, lobelia, aquilegia, sweet peas, geum and cosmos to name but a few. I've literally spent hours sorting different colours and getting each into their envelopes. First year gardening. Can't wait to sow them next year.

[GardenDiscovery]

Great vid! I've collected some cosmos, nasturtium, salvias, and even some of the wildflower seeds off the wildflowers I'd sown in the early spring with my mom. Last year I grew salvias from seeds I'd collected and babied those plants thru the winter. Two were successful. Then I had one salvia "volunteer " who is by far healthier looking- go figure. I'm happy to have all three still alive. The hummingbirds adore them! I still have loads more seeds to collect. I've been busier taking cuttings off of my succulents and completely forgot I need to collect more seeds, so thanks for the reminder. BTW, did you make salsa?