Collect your own seeds

[silky]

Collect your own seeds.

When cutting a cabbage, lettuce, Brussels etc. instead of digging up the plant, cut the top off leaving about 3 to 4 inches of the stalk still in the ground. Then cut a cross on the top of the stalk and from that four new plants will appear. When they are about the size of a grapefruit, remove three for your meal. The one remaining will go to seed and send out a long thin stalk which will flower and when the flowers die off they will produce seed pods. Now cut off the stalk and place into a large plastic bag and rub it between your hands and the pods will break to leave the new seeds in the bottom of the bag.

Put new seeds into a container and label for next year. The seeds will keep for three or four years with the exception of the lettuce, which have to have new seeds each year.

[Orfy]

Good tip.

Just make sure you're not expecting the same plant to grow next year. It's a lottery. They can get cross pollinated or revert to type if they are F1.

It's good fun to do though.