Let Your Garden Go to Seed

Let plants grow past normal harvest times and be rewarded with seeds. There are some good reasons why allowing some of your plants to flower and seed makes sense. Gardener Scott discusses why to let garden plants set seed and why he grows a seed garden. (Video #293)

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[hugelpook]

Such a great idea. Definitely going to do this!

[michaelmarchione]

Very educational...Big thumbs up! Take care!

[renatkinson]

Really am enjoying the way you explain gardening. Very practical and lovely.

[Dee.C]

Broccoli flowers are edible and yummy .

[nikkitronic]

Yes! I'll never buy spinach seed again.. so much from just a few plants. Also nasturtium.. so much nasturtium seed! Thanks for a great video Gardner Scott!
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[dondale]

I've found that sun flowers are very easy to use when you're teaching young children the importance of seed collection

[Orange_You_Glad]

Radish pods are also delicious when added to a stir-fry

[scotthussar]

Wow GardenerScott, this might be one of your best videos…maybe ever! Been watching for some time now and this is the kind of content i come to you for. Ive been saving seeds for a few years now and its an interesting process and your insight really is an encouraging validation to what I’ve been trying to do. Love your channel and keep on doing what your doing.

[jamesalexbarnes]

I spent a few hours yesterday picking out seeds from onions pods that I deliberately let flower and seed. Got hundreds from 6 plants. They were great benefitial flowers for the garden too!

[alexplechash]

What do you think of the idea of setting aside one (or two) raised beds simply for seed generation?

[NashvilleMonkey]

Oh, we're growing around ten varieties of radish, and since they are out-breeding plants, they combine in interesting ways. Some of the radish pods were double sized at least, and some of them had a few rows of seeds instead of a single line of them, so the normally short pods were more packed with seeds. One or two varieties even have pink flowers, so we can't wait to see how next year's plants grow.

[lindadavidson]

I let my zinnias, cosmos and marigolds go to seed every year. I let them self-sow. Because I live in a windy area, it's always fun to see where they will pop up!

[dr]

I'd love to see exactly how you harvest and store the seeds for next year's planting. I'd like to try it myself. Thanks!

[ElanAbneri]

Let my spring Spinach go to seed and when they dried planted them and have lots of new plants.

[elabanieh]

absolutely love this! Thanks for sharing!

[lilal]

I love letting radishes go to seed. I have trouble saving the seed though because I eat the pod. LOL I'll get better.

[aplaceinthestars]

I save seeds mainly because I don't have the heart to chop down any of my plants when they're past their prime. They're my baaaay beeees.

[lastchancemonicam]

Thank you for the video. FYI, if you look closely at your daikon radish flowers, you'll see they have a very slight purplish tint to the. If you look at the smaller American radishes, you'll find they are white. If you look at a turnip flower, you'll find it has a slight pinkish tint, but you'll find that apart from that, all the flowers look the same. Just a word, double check your germination rate on your American radishes. They don't have a high one unless you have several thousand plants growing. I think they're like kale that way.

[yvoennsche]

I have collected Endive seeds. They are a bit tricky to extract from the seed head though.

[basicbaroque]

I plan to let more things go to seed next year. I've been inspired by Native American gardening and food forests, so I want to try growing an annual food forest with veggies, herbs, and flowers.