Dozens of pepper varieties can be grown in the home garden. Once you find your favorites, you may never have to purchase seeds again—turns out, you can save pepper seeds easily to plant next year.

Save seeds to be sure of what you’re growing. ... pepper seeds were swapped—so if you thought you were growing jalapeños, for instance, you were in fact growing banana peppers, ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. I'm growing a variety of peppers (Cayenne, Tabasco, Habanero, etc ...

Peppers (capsicum annuum) are cross-pollinators: Allow the fruit to ripen fully to color; scoop out the seeds, and dry them on a plate. If the seeds snap instead of bend, they’re ready.

MUNCIE, Ind. – Seed saving is a tradition that has been practiced by home gardeners and horticulturalists for generations. It allows us to preserve our favorite heirloom varieties from year to ...

As you’ve noticed, you can harvest viable seeds from store-bought sweet peppers and get quite a lot of them from a single pepper. Tomatoes, too, can yield plenty of viable seeds.

Now that your vegetables and flowers have almost finished their growing cycle, it is time to think about saving seeds for next year. Saving seeds has several benefits. You can save money. You can c… ...

Self-pollinating plants such as tomatoes, peppers, beans, and peas are great for saving seed from since they are unlikely to be as affected by cross-pollination and produce seeds that require ...

So long as you’re able to save the heads from the squirrels, you can bring them inside to dry, and the seeds come out easily. Poppy heads, if allowed to dry, will become tiny poppy seed-shakers.

As you’ve noticed, you can harvest viable seeds from store-bought sweet peppers and get quite a lot of them from a single pepper. Tomatoes, too, can yield plenty of viable seeds.