Seeds Saving
Easy to save annual greens:
arugula, leaf amaranth, asparagus, beans & peas, chicory, chive, corn, cucumber, eggplant, ground cherries, lettuce, melon, mustard, okra, orach, pepper, pumpkin, spinach, squash, tomato, watermelon
Annual Herbs: Cilantro, Basil, Borage, Dill, Eclipta
Biennial herbs: Celery, Fennel and Parsley
Some of the easiest perennial flowers to collect seeds from include:
Aquilegia (Columbine)
Blackberry lily
Black-eyed Susan
Coneflower
Coreopsis
Daisy
Echinops (Globe Thistle)
False sunflower
Hellebore
Hibiscus
Knautia macedonica (a crimson pincushion flower)
Lavender
Lupinus (Lupine)
Meadow rue
Myosotis (Forget-me-Not)
Obedient plant
Papaver (Poppy)
Perennial sunflower
Perennial sweet pea
Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susan)
Tanacetum/Chrysanthemum parthenium (Feverfew)
Veronica
Easy to Save Annuals:
Amaranth
Bracteantha (Strawflower)
Calendula
Cleome
Coreopsis
Cornflower
Cosmo
Datura
Helianthus (Sunflower)
Impatiens
Larkspur
Lathyrus (Sweet Peas)
Marigold
Morning Glory
Nasturtium
Nicotiana (Flowering Tobacco)
Nigella (Love-in-a-Mist)
Nasturium
Petunia
Poppy
Portulaca (Moss Rose)
Scabiosa (Pincushion)
Snapdragons
Viola (Pansy)
Zinnia
arugula, leaf amaranth, asparagus, beans & peas, chicory, chive, corn, cucumber, eggplant, ground cherries, lettuce, melon, mustard, okra, orach, pepper, pumpkin, spinach, squash, tomato, watermelon
Annual Herbs: Cilantro, Basil, Borage, Dill, Eclipta
Biennial herbs: Celery, Fennel and Parsley
Some of the easiest perennial flowers to collect seeds from include:
Aquilegia (Columbine)
Blackberry lily
Black-eyed Susan
Coneflower
Coreopsis
Daisy
Echinops (Globe Thistle)
False sunflower
Hellebore
Hibiscus
Knautia macedonica (a crimson pincushion flower)
Lavender
Lupinus (Lupine)
Meadow rue
Myosotis (Forget-me-Not)
Obedient plant
Papaver (Poppy)
Perennial sunflower
Perennial sweet pea
Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susan)
Tanacetum/Chrysanthemum parthenium (Feverfew)
Veronica
Easy to Save Annuals:
Amaranth
Bracteantha (Strawflower)
Calendula
Cleome
Coreopsis
Cornflower
Cosmo
Datura
Helianthus (Sunflower)
Impatiens
Larkspur
Lathyrus (Sweet Peas)
Marigold
Morning Glory
Nasturtium
Nicotiana (Flowering Tobacco)
Nigella (Love-in-a-Mist)
Nasturium
Petunia
Poppy
Portulaca (Moss Rose)
Scabiosa (Pincushion)
Snapdragons
Viola (Pansy)
Zinnia