Do you recycle the seeds of your beans & peas?

Question

For 4 or 5 years now I've been letting a bunch of beans and peas dry out and then planting the seeds the following season. Does anyone else do this? I always get a good harvest, but I'm wondering if there's a limit to how many times you can "recycle" them.

Y/A says I should post this question in Sports:Hockey!! Huh???

Answer 1

Saw your note about where Y/A said to post your question, thought I would share what they did to me! I asked a question (in Polls and Surveys) and they said I should have posted it in the Pregnancy & Parenting section, it had NOTHING to do with that!! (maybe because I had the word "late" in the question)? LOL!!  :)

Answer 2

I done that with cucumbers, green peppers & hot peppers.

My  fathers did it with seeds he had saved from tomatoes.

I think you can do so year after year.

Friday I was posting a question in Yahoo answers & YA said I too should put it under Sports/Hockey.

They must be trying to drum up questions  for the hockey section.

Answer 3

In my garden, I have only trees and flowers--no veggies. You are doing the Earth a favor by recycling seeds of life. Keep doing so until they no longer germinate. Nature loves a recycler.

(Spell Chick says a have a lot of punctuation -- where)?

Answer 4

no there is no time limit you can recycle them as much as you want  

Answer 5

Hi friend!  We use to do that all the time but now with hybrid seed and all you never know what you are going to get when you plant the seed from a hybrid.  So we just suck it up and buy need seeds every year.

PS Our garden is dried up and dead.......No rain until last night and 102 temps down here.  Oh well we put up about 40 quarts of purple hull peas in the freezer.  SO we did better than last year.

nfd♥

Answer 6

That is how they propagate, keep doing it.

Answer 7

no I recycle plastics and paper  

Answer 8

Naaa you can post your question among friends and poets!  I haven't done this with beans and peas!  Tomatoes, I have done, but don't even wait for them to dry out!  LOL usually it is with one that got stuck back in the refrigerator somewhere, I just dig a hole pour water in it, stick the almost soft tomato in it, then just keep on watering and lo and behold before you know it   TOMATOES! Yeserie that is what I do!!  Cheers!!  ( spell check is going crazy right now)!!

Answer 9

We always stored grain for seed the following spring.  From bug and fungus potential, you might want to switch to a new variety every few years.  Seeds stored over one season start to lose their germination rate.  Is that a bonnet I see on your head? Or are you dressed like the lady in the painting Gleaners? lol  

Answer 10

Up until people began buying their seeds from commercial companies, everyone got their seeds the way you are getting yours.  Generations of family members would share the seeds and pass them along - that's the origin of "heirloom seeds." There are organizations devoted to saving open-pollinated (non-hybrid) vegetable and flower seeds - just put "seed savers" into a search engine and you will find a lot of information.

Y/A's category designations are pretty wild!  I sure can't think of why beans and peas are related to hockey!  (Then again, while I was typing this last sentence, it alerted me before I had finished spelling the word category that I should correct it to "cat ego," so I'm not too impressed with the "improved" spell checking, either.)  Maybe it's a little known fact that hockey fans are devoted seed savers!

Answer 11

Reenie, you are a true steward of the land!  This method must be ok, humans have been doing it for at least 10,000 years.