{"id":2641,"date":"2012-10-11T18:41:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T22:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2012-10-11T18:41:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T22:41:41","slug":"our-seed-saving-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/10\/11\/our-seed-saving-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Our seed saving continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We saved a huge, yellow pickling cucumber for seed before our garden froze out a couple of weeks ago. And yesterday I cut it in half and carefully scooped out the seeds. There were sure a lot! So next year, we don&#8217;t have to buy a single pickling cucumber seed. Yep, they don&#8217;t cost all that much, but with today&#8217;s economy, every single penny we save adds up quickly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Cuke-for-seeds.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2642\" title=\"Cuke-for-seeds\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Cuke-for-seeds.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve saved seeds from tomatoes, beans, corn, watermelon, muskmelon, and cucumber. So far. I&#8217;ve also got plenty of squash we&#8217;re saving seeds from when we use the first ones. And we&#8217;ve got Hansen&#8217;s bush cherry, wild plum, and apple seeds to plant. Yesterday while I worked on an article for the magazine, Will readied three new raised beds so we can plant our fruit seeds\/pits. They&#8217;ll overwinter there and sprout up in the springtime. It&#8217;s fun and will help us cut costs on our homestead. A truly win-win situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saved a huge, yellow pickling cucumber for seed before our garden froze out a couple of weeks ago. And yesterday I cut it in half and carefully scooped out the seeds. There were sure a lot! So next year, we don&#8217;t have to buy a single pickling cucumber seed. Yep, they don&#8217;t cost all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}