🌱 Seed Library

🌱 Share seeds you've saved! Open-pollinated and heirloom varieties help build community resilience.

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📚 Seed Saving Basics

Easy Seeds for Beginners

Tomatoes, peppers, beans, peas, lettuce — these self-pollinate and are easy to save.

Why Open-Pollinated?

Unlike hybrids (F1), open-pollinated seeds grow true to type. The plant you get will be like the parent plant. This is essential for seed saving.

Isolation Distances

• Tomatoes, peppers, beans, peas: 10-20 feet
• Corn: 1/4 mile (or time isolation)
• Squash, cucumbers: 1/2 mile (or hand-pollinate)
• Brassicas: 1 mile

Storage

Cool, dry, dark. Envelopes in a jar with silica gel packets. Many seeds viable 3-5+ years if stored well.

The Library Cycle

1. Check out seeds
2. Grow plants (tag best performers)
3. Let best plants go to seed
4. Dry and clean seeds
5. Return double what you took