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Seed dryer
"Ernie Willson" wrote in message
FarmI wrote: "Ernie Willson" wrote in message ... I'm looking for plans for a homebuilt seed dryer to dry the seeds from my garden. What sort of seeds are you wanting to dry? I just leave seeds on my kitchen bench on a piece of paper towle or even just in a small glass bowl to dry before I store them. Mostly I am drying flower seedheads and vegetable seeds. Flowers include Coreopsis, Asters, Shasta Daisy, Heliopsis, Marigold, Zinnia and Gallardia. Vegetables include Tomato, Summer Squash, Peas, Radish, Eggplant and Peppers. Unless you live in an extremely humid area, why do you need a seed drier? As I mentioned, my kitchen bench works fine for drying the seeds I keep or indeed, the plant itself where I leave a lot of seed heads to mature because I figure nature knows best how to do it and why should I interfere given that I can just harvest the seeds when dried. I mention humidity because that can certainly spoil some seeds but in most circumstances, anywhere that you can survive, your seeds will too until you are ready to store them. I save my tomato seeds by fermenting them for a few days in an old jar with some water, then run them under running water and then dump them out onto a piece of kitchen paper towel adn then leave them on the bench till the paper towel and the seeds are dry. I then just roll up the paper towel and store the whoel thing till time to plant when I just either peel the seeds off the paer towle or tear the towel into tiny bits and plant the seed on the towel. Since I've never had any problems with seeds drying on the kitchen bench and especially the tomatoes which are sodden when I lay them out to dry, I'm wondering why you'd go to the expense of buying a seed drier? |
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