If you sprout in winter and you garden in summer, my question is did you plant a area of your garden to produce seeds for sprouting? and if so, what did you choose to grow?
I have been well aware of the rising costs of sprouting seeds, it seems like while there is more choice these days, the price is rising every three to six months. I do save seed from different plants for use in the garden but alot of them would not work so well in regards to winter sprouting, I mean squash is super easy to keep back and great for roasting and eating the seeds.
While there are a number of different things that can be let go to seed for keeping back but the two that I find the most basic and easy to do, would be radish and any of the mustard greens, both are super easy to grow, will go to seed if you let them with no trouble, and are reasonable in regards to harvesting them, and provide tons of tiny seeds, and they taste good as sprouts.
Right now in my garden I have three rows of radishes that are huge and I am sure folks that looked would think.. Pick them or they will go to seed soon, but they are in fact my sprouting seeds to be, and I am counting on them doing just that.
What is your favorite sprouting seeds and can you add them to your list of homegrown produce?
Just another Day on the Farm 
Oh that is so clever. It never occurred to me to let the overgrown, pithy radish go to seed for sprouting purpose. But now I know what I’m going to do with the broccoli since we sort of skipped a season here and they’re bolting straight-away.
Hey Andrea, You’ll get a great double-whammy from having Broccoli flowering in your garden… Bees LOVE brassicas in bloom!
What an excellent idea to save seed for sprouting! You are SO organised! I had some things from the Mesclun Mix go to see one year and they’re still coming up years later, but it’s in the lawn now because I’ve moved the garden since then!! They still taste great as spring greens though; )
LOL, I wish was organised, I try, I really do but as soon as I get one thing done and all picture perfect, there is the next thing and the next thing, and then back to the start I go..
That’s funny about the spring greens in the lawn, as long as you know where they go, I guess that is the important thing really.