By Arnold Krusemark In getting ready for this year’s gardening some of you gardeners might have another sources of seeds. We are talking about saving the seeds from a squash or pumpkin or similar. When Grandma was still with us she saved a plate full of seeds from every squash we ate. Finally she had the bedroom loaded with seeds. Our most memorable seeds came once when we were in Minneapolis attending something at the Auditorium. Outside we found some broken pieces of a pumpkin, probably from a garden show. We saved some seeds and the next year grew what we called Auditorium pumpkins. The flesh was several inches thick so the pumpkins were not small. Sometimes we left our vegetables to go to seed and after drying out save them for the next year’s planting. This works fine with generic rather than hybrids.
In the meantime keep an eye out for whatever gardening seeds and other tools when they go on sale. Its also a good idea to touch up the tools so they are ready to go when it gets planting time. And water your house plants too.
Until next week.
