I've shelled corn until my thumb blistered. That was one of my jobs when I was a child. My parents would save a really nice collard plant and let it go to seed. Then they'd pull a paper bag over the top to gather thousands of seeds. They put them in a cloth bag and hung it on the wall in the house.
Growing up, I would help my Dad tend 2 gardens in our backyard, as well as 2 and sometimes 3 down at my Grandma's house in the country. Unfortunately, he never cared about saving seeds. He would just run up the road to Scott Seed Co. and get what he wanted. This was well before the big box stores shut down all the smaller hardware and gardening supply stores.
I've shelled corn until my thumb blistered. That was one of my jobs when I was a child. My parents would save a really nice collard plant and let it go to seed. Then they'd pull a paper bag over the top to gather thousands of seeds. They put them in a cloth bag and hung it on the wall in the house.
Growing up, I would help my Dad tend 2 gardens in our backyard, as well as 2 and sometimes 3 down at my Grandma's house in the country. Unfortunately, he never cared about saving seeds. He would just run up the road to Scott Seed Co. and get what he wanted. This was well before the big box stores shut down all the smaller hardware and gardening supply stores.