So, I had to de-clutter my seed box, because the seeds would not fit in anymore, and I knew I had a lot of extra seeds that are expired, proven to not work anymore (repeated failures), and were also huge and taking up a lot of space. The number one problem were the squash and pumpkin seeds. Every time I had a good pumpkin or a squash, I would take out all of the seeds and hoard them for future use. However, every year I would go and plant these plants, I would need mostly 10-20 seeds, from which I would actually grow 3-4 plants, and the rest would stay hoarded.
I went thru every envelope and found I had hundreds, even thousands of excess squash seeds. They're all cross-pollinated so I can't safely gift them to other people and promise them it would grow true to type, it probably would not. I'm just satisfied with any kind of squash I get (as long as it's edible).
So I put them all in a bag and now I have this situation on my hands:
That is a full bag of mixed seeds from zucchini, hokkaido squash, butternut, kabocha, various pumpkins, and they're all probably at least a little cross-pollinated with each other. And I don't know what to do with them.
I know they're edible, but I know myself enough to be sure that I am not going to crack thousands of squash seeds out of their skin, I already have a big jar of large pumpkin seeds, and I also have the green skinless seeds, that do not have to be cleaned, which I do eat.
I wanted to feed them to the birds, but birds here will adamantly refuse to eat squash seeds - and I mean, I offered them cleaned, skinless, cut into small bits, easy to digest squash seeds, and they still would not even hear of it. Birds would only take hazelnuts, walnuts and sunflower seeds and leave the squash seeds like they're not even there.
I thought for a moment, wouldn't it be funny if I just randomly distributed all of this on the field, just to see what happens, hehe. But, this year has been extremely slug heavy, to the point where everything I planted on the field has gotten eaten by slugs, and I had to give up planting anything but tomatoes there. So if I distributed a thousand squash seeds, and hundreds of them started growing, it would give a huge food source to already overpopulating slugs, and I do not want to do that, not this year.
I also have unusable sunflower seeds (tiny ones), corn seeds (they stop germinating after a year has passed), and some stone fruit seeds there as well. Any ideas on what I could do with this?
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Roasted Winter Squash Seeds
These butternut squash seeds are excellent when roasted. Save the seeds from your next butternut or acorn squash preparation for a tasty snack! 1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste, 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 cup butternut squash seeds or other hard squash seeds
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Roasted Winter Squash Seeds — Nuts and Seeds
These roasted butternut squash seeds are delicious. Next time you prep butternut or acorn squash save the seeds for a nutritious little snack!
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Roasted Winter Squash Seeds — Nuts and Seeds
These roasted butternut squash seeds are delicious. Next time you prep butternut or acorn squash save the seeds for a nutritious little snack!
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