legume | Show Me Oz

By Jill Henderson – Show Me Oz
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If you are planning on saving some of your own seeds this coming summer, the very best time to start is before a single seed goes in the ground. In fact, saving seed should begin with that catalog you’ve been perusing all winter. Seed catalogs are often filled to the brim with valuable information on the crops you want to grow, including germination times, growth characteristics, suggested planting dates and so on. But the best part is that many catalogs now list each vegetable’s Latin botanical name, as well. For the seed saver, those two little words written in italics and perched between parenthesis can mean the difference between seed saving success or seed saving failure.