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Forms

• Membership form (link to our online form)
• Seed Donation Form

Seed Growing and Saving Guidelines

• DCSL Planting Calendar 2024
• How to plan your garden for seed saving
• Easy seeds for beginners
• Indoor Seed Starting
• Winter Seed Sowing
• General seed saving instructions PDF and video
• Seed saving protocol
• Plant A Pollinator Patch
• Collecting Native Seeds
• Growing Natives from Seed

 We recommend that you start with these super-easy crops:

• Tomatoes
  • How to grow and save tomato seeds
  • (video) How to save tomato seeds
• Beans
  • How to grow and save bean seeds
  • (video) How to save legume seeds
• Peas
  • How to grow and save pea seeds
  • (video) How to save legume seeds
• Lettuce
  • How to grow and save lettuce seeds
  • (video) How to save lettuce seeds

Recommended Reading

• Available through InfoSoup with your Door County Library card:
  • Seed Saving: A Beginner’s Guide to Heirloom Gardening by Caleb Warnock – very well organized and great for beginners
  • Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth – the classic seed saving guide; a very comprehensive book
  • The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving by Lee Buttala, Shanyn Siegel, et al. – winner of The American Horticultural Society’s Book Award
  • The New Seed-Starters Handbook by Nancy Bubel – great for beginners and more experienced gardeners
  • Pollinators of Native Plants by Heather Holm
• A Seed Saving Guide for Gardeners and Farmers by Organic Seed Alliance – a condensed guide available as a free download
• Various gardening publications can be found at the UW-Madison Division of Extension Learning Store
• Wisconsin Native Plants – recommendations for landscaping and natural community restoration

The Door County Library has many more gardening and seed saving books that are available to borrow too!