Summer Gardening Skills - Collecting, Storing Seed

Nurturing and collecting seed is becoming an increasingly important garden skill in building community resilience. But it's so involved. Join us to learn the traditional skills of collecting, cleaning, drying and storing vegetable and flower seeds from your garden. 

There are many benefits of saving your own seeds, including saving money, having seeds to share with others, preserving heirloom varieties and growing plants perfectly suited to your environment. Seed saving was once an essential life skill passed down through the generations, and learning how to do it may be easier than you think. 

This one-hour online workshop, presented by Charlotte Harrison, will help you access this lost gardening wisdom and set you up for seed saving success. Topics covered include:  

The benefits of seed saving; 

Planning ahead to ensure the seeds you save will flourish when planted; 

The seed saving process step-by-step: selecting parent plants, collecting, cleaning, drying and storing seeds; 

5 easiest vegetable and flower seeds to save; 

How to connect with other seed savers in your community through seed swaps and libraries. 

Book the Series Package for discount. Friends of SGA receive a 15% discount on Master Class full price tickets. You can become a Friend of SGA here. Green Garden Professional (GGPs) receive a 30% discount.

Sustainable Gardening Australia (SGA) is a not-for-profit non-government organiation dedicated to achieving a healthy biodiverse planet.

Its driving purpose is to:

• Encourage, educate and enable home and professional gardeners to adopt sustainable gardening practices to protect or enhance the natural environment;
• Provide information, education and undertake research about the natural environment;
• Reconnect people to the natural world through gardening; and
• Ensure an understanding of the impacts that gardening decisions about chemical and resource use have on the natural environment well beyond their neighbourhood.