03/14/2026
With the food crisis looming around us (go to any search engine & see for yourself) I suggest you start saving seeds from the fruits & vegetables you buy.
Start with easy things like:
Cantaloupe 🍈
Watermelon 🍉 if you are lucky to find one with true seeds
Peppers ~ any kind 🌶️ 🫑
Apple trees 🍎 if you don’t mind on betting on your far future or someone elses. I have 4 growing well, some more slowly growing & another set soaking to sprout. Casually collecting all of them from every apple.
Potatoes 🥔 will grow “eyes” you can cut the 👀 & plant them place them with onions or garlic so they don’t mold.
Garlic 🧄 cloves will also sprout & grow a whole head for each one you plant.
Sweet potatoes + yams🍠 look into how to grow their slips first thing I grew with pumpkins ! Super easy their leafs & flowers are edible as well
Pumpkins of course too!
Any squash you can find
Beans you can buy a few years worth of seeds in the dry goods isle for less than 2-4 dollars
Berries have seeds research best way to grow from fresh seed
Plant your onions ends this year for seeds & plant all the onions next year ~ I have a white & red onion ends planted.
Tomatoes
Dried corn ~ I am soaking two kinds from drapers farm I got originally as decor 3 years ago~they are sprouting!
You can get fancy with mangos, avocado & citrus, papaya, ginger
Cherries🍒
Peaches 🍑
Nectarines
Plums
Even your spice rack, you can plant coriander (cilantro seeds), dill, cumin, fennel, mustard, black pepper, and cardamom pods.
For best results, use seeds from fully ripe or even over-ripe fruits. Clean off any pulp and, for tomatoes (& so many more), let them ferment in water for 2-3 days to break down the germination-inhibiting coating.
