How to Dry Vegetable Seeds

As a gardener, you know that it can be fairly expensive to buy a seeds for plants and vegetable each year. Especially if you live in a certain region where some seeds are hard to find, it can be difficult to certain plants every year, but if you harvest your own seeds, then you are guaranteed to have that pant in your garden.

• Determine how long you can keep the seeds without planting them. The best way to determine this is to consider the moisture of the particular seed and what containers you will be storing them in. Some containers are better for keeping seeds preserved longer then others.


• Be sure that the seeds you originally plant are fresh seeds so that you know that the seeds you are going to harvest are going to be the best quality. Once you have planted the seeds, if you see that some of the seeds have not taken root, you should store them in a good location so you can try planting them again the following year.


• Store your vegetable and flower seeds in good conditions. Room temperature is probably going to be the best way to store your seeds until you are ready to plant them. Depending on the type of seeds that you have, you may want to research the best conditions to store them in.


• Dry your vegetable seeds in the sun on a paper towel until they can be stored in a container. Depending on the vegetable seed you are storing, you may have to separate the seed from the pulp before drying. The best way to separate them from the pulp is to place the seeds in water until they fall to the bottom.