Growing fruits and vegetables from produce you've eaten

Yes! I do this every year. Right now, I have tomatoes, peppers, canteloup and honeydew melons growing from seeds I got from last year's harvest. I also save seeds from flowers and plant them. I have maybe 100 coneflowers growing this year from seeds produced from my flowers last year. I have also harvested seeds from other flowers but haven't started them yet. Last year, I grew pumpkins from an old pumpkin that I threw in the compost heap. They started growing right there. I managed to transplant them to a better location and they grew and produced more pumpkins. I LOVE collecting seeds to use the following year. I have to agree with you that it is extremely satisfying to grow things this way. I used to have a bad habit of collecting seeds and placing them in containers for the following year but forgetting to label them. Some seeds are kind of obvious but others are so similar that I have to grow them to know what kind of flower/vegetable they came from. LOL Tomato, pepper and eggplant seeds are identical so labeling them is essential! Happy gardening!

Not really. I know I've tried with fruit and they just don't germinate. We did have some tomatoes on the vine that sprouted and I planted it, but wasn't very good at keeping it watered enough..

Yes Kelly, I am also a plant lover like you! In my garden, Papaya, Mango, Custard-apple, Drum-stick, Guava, Green-chillies etc are grown up by me and we consume their fruits at regular intervals! I have plans also to grow a lemon plant! There is a special charm with the fruits and vegetables from own garden, of which, the plants are cared and grown by self! Thanks for this nice discussion and have nice fruits and vegetables from your garden!!

I most certainly have. Usually I have the best luck with tomatoes growing from seeds I've saved. Or heck I think I've got a watermelon or some sort of plants growing in my compost bin! I'm curious as to what it is exactly seeing it is a compost bin afterall. My Aunt has good luck with musmellon/cantaloupe sprouting from her discarded seeds and rines. Though I have yet to hear of her actually getting an actual melon out of it.

Hi kelly I don't have a garden in the real sense of the word, when i built my new home, this portion was made the portico, but i have one on my roof top, just two feet wide and about forty feet long close to boundary walls.. we throw the seeds of tomato, egg plant and papaya there, they grow in to plants and yield enough.. Thanks for sharing. Welcome always. Cheers. Professor

Yes dear, we have a small mango tree emerging from one of the seeds we had. We also have a white pumpkin to our surprise, waiting for it to grow bigger. We also had tomatoes, and a lemon tree is growing.

I have a ridiculous number of golden kiwifruit seedlings from scraping a supermarket fruit - now I have a quandary because to get fruit you need both male and female trees, but there's no way of telling til they blossom which they are - but they won't bloom for another two years - I'd hate to just keep a couple and then find out they're the same, but I live in a one-room apartment (I garden on my tiny balcony) and there's no way I can keep them all! I guess I'll just have to view them as pretty foliage plants and leave the possibility of fruit as a surprise bonus if it happens *lol*