My "surprise" is that I'm going to need to save the seed from my Munchkin broccoli. That was one I had hoped to do a couple of years from now in my rotation. While I wasn't paying attention, it disappeared from the market. I have enough seed left to grow out a decent population to save seed from, but it will decrease my cabbage space substantially. (Not that it's a huge loss, because they look like swiss cheese when the loopers get to them.) I'll be wintering cabbage over to collect seed from next spring, whichever type I'm the happiest with this summer.

I'll be saving seed from every tomato, of course. I'm doing a comparison of a few snap and wax beans to decide whether or not to bother with them in the future. I'm increasing my seed on a wide range of dry bean, cowpeas, and soy for fermenting.

I'm going to try to save seed from most of my peppers, but I'm focusing on the few that I'm low on for seed in case I'm too short on time to do all of them.

I'll be saving seed from my lemon cucumbers, and a cantaloupe or watermelon if any of those produce something edible before frost hits.

I'll be saving seed from my neck pumpkins, buttercups, blue hubbards, spaghetti squash, acorn squash and scallop squash for sure. There are a few others like the Long Island cheese that I'll save some seed from but it won't go back into the planting rotation unless it does much better this year.

I'm saving seed from my Bloody Butcher corn. I made the mistake of only saving dark red ears the last time around, but I have some other seed with light red and white ears to add those genetics back in. I thought they were off-types...but they aren't. (Ooops!)

I'm saving my Amish Bottle onion seeds if they flower this year. They seem to be a little finicky.

There are a few different flowers and herbs that I'm going to attempt to save this year too. I always say that I'll keep my basil cut back so that only one type is flowering at a time, but it always gets ahead of me. Maybe this will be the year?

I'm sure there's more that I'm forgetting now. I'm also sure that a few of these will fall by the wayside as the garden overwhelms me and my husband protests the fermenting seeds on every counter. What is everyone else planning to save this year?

Kayleigh

First year that we are planting out winter overed (in the Root cellar ) broccoli and kohlrabi. They are sending up flower sticks now and look very much like cabbage (which they should).