mountainhippie said:
I just have a hard time not planting all the seeds in the packet. Seems like a waste.
Take 1 Zucchini this year and let it go till it is yellow and mushy....then pick it and take about 10 seeds out of it and store in either a plastic pill bottle or some other small container labled of what the seeds are in the bottom crisper drawer of your fridge... next spring about 4 weeks before it is time to plant, take those seeds and start them in a starter tray and then transplant them out in your area you want to plant... you can space them all around......Zucchini do not run like cucumbers, watermelons, cantalopes and pumpkins, so you can place a Zucchini plant in among your peppers or tomatoes or cabbage, coliflower ect......
then you are not wasting... even better yet....just transplant 3 plants and keep the others inside and on stand by if the 3 do not grow in the area you transplant them too!
You can also get a packet of seeds, plant 5 seeds and take the rest and place the whole packet in a pill bottle or other small container and keep in the fridge till next year.......the germination will not go down all that badly and they will grow for a few years if you keep them cool.....
I got hold of a Store Display 3 years ago and my buddy who owns the farm and I took what we wanted and I offered up seeds on here to anyone who wanted them.... my buddy and I kept almost all the broccoli, coliflower, cabbage, cucumbers and some Zucchini packets... we keep them in his shop that stays somewhat cool all summer long... last year and this spring, we used seeds out of those we kept from that display, ALL the Seeds germinated that we started!
You can store them and they will then not go to waste!