How to harvest flower seeds: Petunias! This year, our farm team is growing and saving seed from this ‘Old Fashioned Vining Petunia’ for the Seed Savers Exchange catalog. Harvesting petunia seeds requires some careful timing between the time seeds reach maturity to the time the seed pods burst. Leaving the seed pods on the plants too long can also lead to molding or germination in the event of excess rainfall. Watch this video to learn when and how to harvest petunia seeds from Corbin Scholz, SSE

POV: Dry seed processing at Seed Savers Exchange! Crops are classified as dry-fruited, such as beans and lettuce, or wet-fruited, such as tomatoes and squash. Saving seeds from dry-fruited crops, also called dry seed processing, usually involves harvesting, threshing, screening, winnowing, and further drying before placing the seeds into long-term storage. These steps all work to separate healthy, viable seeds from immature seeds and the rest of the plant material, or chaff. In this video, SSE’s