Minnesota Midget

Plump, juicy and, oh, so sweet!  Seeds from this beauty will be saved for planting in next year's garden.

Minnesota Midget Melon

We're swimming in pickles!

Dill, bay leaves, and tarragon from the garden, along with the cucumbers.

Water, vinegar, salt, homegrown garlic, dill, tarragon, bay leaves,
black peppercorns, yellow & brown mustard seeds,
coriander seeds, and a pinch of red pepper flakes.

It's difficult to believe that the growing season is nearly over.  In preparation for next year I've been reading a book recently borrowed from the library titled The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds by Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough.  The book includes seed saving tips for 322 vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruits, trees and shrubs.  For each entry in the book there is a tip for seed collection, seed cleaning and storage, seed treatment (prior to planting), germination (optimal conditions for), and transplanting.  Concise information that will help make me a better gardener.

A detail that will help me this year (and now you, too) is to save seeds from early harvested items versus fruit harvested later in the season.  The logic being that seeds saved from early fruits are more likely to produce early fruit next season, versus fruits that ripen late in the season.  Seems like obvious information but it never occurred to me that there could be that subtle of a difference from seed to seed.

"The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all." -- Wendell Berry




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