How to Save Spinach Seeds

If you want to save seeds from year to year,  you must plant heirloom varieties of plants, not hybrids.  I grow Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach.   When it starts to get hot in the early summer, your spinach plants will bolt and get quite ugly looking.  Don’t pull them!  If you leave them, they will produce lots of seeds.  Once they have produced seeds and are all dry, pull them up and hang them upside down to dry somewhere.  This step is probably not necessary if it is a dry year.  It was raining every other day here so I wanted to get them inside to finish drying.

Now, just pull off the little bunches of seeds and store them until planting time.  Be sure to get enough for your fall and spring plantings.