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Tom’s Guide
Tom’s Guide
Technology
Kaycee Hill

Seed saving guide — how to harvest, dry, and store seeds from your garden

Woman sowing seeds in a greenhouse.

Fall is the perfect time to start collecting seeds from your garden. As temperatures drop and plants finish their growing cycle, they naturally produce mature seeds ready for harvest.

Why bother with seed saving? The money-saving benefits are obvious: no more annual trips to the garden center for packets of seeds. But there's more to it than that. Seeds you collect yourself are already adapted to your local climate and soil conditions, which means better success rates when you plant them next year.

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