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Just a little notice. Gardening hours have been changed for the week gardening sessions in order to accomodate people who work during the day. Tuesday 5-7pm Thursday 5-7pm Sunday still 4-6pm See you in the garden!

Saving seeds is not essential but is certainly critical in order to reduce operation costs and increase autonomy. It’s also a guaranteed source of organic seeds! Like harvesting, it may be obvious how to collect the seeds of some crops, while other crops will leave one clueless. Here are some info, methods and tips to harvest seeds from the most commonly grown crops in our gardens. Rules of thumb: 1. Most root crops are biennial and need to be stored indoors over the winter, or under a thick layer of mulch and other protection if kept in the garden. It’s nearly impossible to keep biennial and perennial plants alive throughout the winter in containers, as the roots usually freeze completely and die. 2. Most brassicas seeds are collected the same way. 3. Do not harvest seeds from diseased plants, seed heads or fruits. 4. The blender method for fruits goes as follow: Put the fruits (halved) with water in a blender (about 25% fruit an 75% water). Blend well at low speed, until the seeds...