Article: Save seeds and eat flax.(Country conversation & feedback)

COUNTRYSIDE: Allow me to add my two cents worth of advice to Frank Marshall's inquiry concerning seed saving. Now we never saved the seeds of cabbages, and I have to admit I have never seen a blooming cabbage (broccoli yes). To get seeds from root crops like beets and carrots, turnips, rutabaga, etc., Mom over wintered the roots she wanted to get seeds from in the cellar. Plant them early in the spring and they will soon start growing a seed stalk. I assume it would work to carefully place a plastic shopping bag over the seed stalk, fasten it underneath so the seeds won't fall to the ground and cut the stalk. The following won't work with the plastic bag. To get the seeds ...

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