Saving snow pea seeds
Remember our beautiful snow
peas? Now they don't look quite so beautiful, having died
back into a mass of brown vines. That means the peas are ready
for the second harvest --- saving the seeds!
I'm hit or miss on my seed-saving, but I do like to save the easy ones
--- peas, beans, and okra. It's hard to go wrong. Just
leave some pods on the plant until they turn brown and dead, shell out
the seeds, and store them in an air tight container. Or, if
you're like me, toss them in an open pint canning jar and forget about
them until next year when they sprout great anyway.
The great thing about saving snow pea seeds is that you don't even have
to set aside a special bed for it. You'll inevitably allow a few
pods to get too woody before you pick them --- just leave those on the
vine and they'll mature nicely. I missed enough snow pea pods to
provide seeds for at least a year.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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