Saving your own squash seeds from your favorite varieties has many benefits. Here are a few:

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• Protect against seed companies dropping your favorite variety.
• Select seeds for your personal tastes and desires.
• Enhance micro-regional adaptation of your seed.
• Save money.
• Gives you 'currency' for trades and seed-swaps.
• Apparently, so my friend told me, seed-savers are really cool.

Botanical Notes:

Family: Cucurbitaceae
Species: Cucurbita spp. (there are four species that will not readily cross pollinate: c. pepo, c. maxima, c. moshata, c. mixta)
Flower: Monoecious (male and female flowers on the same plant).
Pollination: Insect, bee.
Expected Seed Life: 4-6 years.
Isolation Distance: 1/2 mile or greater, easily hand-pollinated.

Botanical Info referenced from 'The Seed Garden'

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How to save squash seed

We are going to assume that you attended one of our Seed Saving workshops and kept your squash isolated from other varieties of the same species, picked a fully mature fruit (hard rind, even for summer squash) with the traits that you deem desirable from a range of plants and are only trying to save from open-pollinated varieties. Note: It's actually very easy to hand-pollinate squash flowers because they have large, easily recognizable male and female flowers. Otherwise you need to isolate by at least 1/2 mile.

Here is Angie saving some seed!

Step 1: Cut the squash and scoop the seed

Step 2: scrape all the seeds into a jar, don't worry about goop

Step 3: top off with water and leave to ferment

Fermentation breaks down the gelatinous placental lining of the seed so that they can be dried for long term storage.

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