Magic Bean Plant

Most of the gardeners will have saved some seeds during the years. The beans of Spain are the candidate more probable and one of the seeds more easy to save the seed of.

The economy seed completes the cycle of life of the plant, the fact a big manner for the children to learn. Themselves they grew their own beans of the seeds this year, then now you can show them that of a plant you obtain from the dozens of pods and in every pod are six to eight seeds of bean. Every one of these seeds will grow in another plants and more of seeds of hundreds of brand. The it is easy to see where the history of magic bean came from and on a practical grade it shows children how the gardeners guaranteed enough seed for the following year before the arrival of merchants of seed. I obtained a huge planter of plants of bean of Spain in my greenhouse this year, that it does very easy to save the seed of them. I can leave a pod handful on the plant and their permit now to dry in the hot conditions in my greenhouse. When the pods turned the chestnut and crunchy I can remove them, to open them and store the beans somewhere coold and dry.

If you are serious of the economy of seed there are some rules that need observe to guarantee good results. But with the intention of the avid gardener and for the school projects there is enough technical simple that can be used.

The first thing to go counts is that the plants exist purely to do the seed, that is why his important one to the flowers of dead head and keep pod and the vegetables choosing as they develop. Immediately that the plant did with success the seed it did his work and or will expire, in the case of annual one, or it will begin closing for the winter survival.

Therefore if you hope to save the seed of your tomatoes of greenhouse, the beans of Spain, the courgettes and pepper needs to await you until what late in the season if you want to always harvest products also. Is now a good time to begin, but you can await some weeks more for the plants as the beans of Spain and as the courgettes that always crop prolifiquement. Most of the plants are easy to save the seed of, you allow simply to someone last "fruit" to ripen completely and then to remove and dry the seed. You choose the plants more healthy and the disease liberates fruit and saves the seed of these. Where the this possible one is a good idea to save the seed of some plants of the same variety to obtain the good biological variety. Some plants need totally to be isolated secured plants to obtain from true seeds. This is a very complicated subject, if unless you have plant very rare or are very interested in the this of process can be more better to concentrate on the types more first easy.

The greenhouse tomatoes are a big choice to save seed especially if you grow certain of the rare one and looked for after the heritage varieties. You can save hundreds of seeds of some fruit and divide them with the friends and the other gardeners or take them to sow the exchange meetings where they will be very popular. The this is also a good manner to save money. Once you obtained a tomato variety that growing well in your garden and your greenhouse, your this is to keep value it and seed of economy of him during years to come. But even if you have not tomatoes in the greenhouse can save you also the seed of the tomatoes bought, but to assure itself that they are a variety that you want to grow. Eviter the extremely high one F1 varieties while saving the seed of any plants because the offspring is not very probable to carry similar characteristics to the parent plant.

The seeds of economy of Tomatoes more lightly are complicated than a lot of plants because the seeds have a frost protective clothing that normally is removed as it goes through the system liqueur of birds and of animals. To removed once the seeds can germinate when the conditions have reason. You need to remove this surface to save the tomato seeds with year success to the year.

Choose your fruit

Choose the healthy and big fruit of the disease liberates plants. Choose one or two fruit of two or three plants of the same variety to increase the reserve of gene of your seeds.

Remove the seeds

The slice opens the tomatoes and removes the seeds. Try and separate the groups of seed of the fleshy gasoline. You will find dozens of seeds in most of the tomatoes, although the steak tomatoes can have less.

Ferment the seeds

Confuse the seeds of all the tomatoes and if you do not want to save them all takes then a spoonful to coffee of the mixture and the place in a small jar of glass. Add 200ML of lightly hot water and leave the seeds to ferment for 3-5 days.

Prepare the seeds

After this time, drain additional water and pour far the seeds on the kitchen paper. The frost surface should have dissolved and you will have left with a lot of small seeds, credmeuses and flat. To separate them as better you can and leave the leaves in paper to dry in a hot and light place. Ecrire on the paper the name of the variety.

Epargner the seeds

When the paper is dry you or can peel carefully the seeds of and the place in an envelope edtiquetede, or store the entire leaf cools somewhere and dry.