Kitchen Seed Survivor List

 

Items around the kitchen that grow into plants:



(Note: some of our foods are hybrids so the seeds will not produce fruits or vegetables identical to the parents).



Adzuki beans

Alfalfa seeds (for sprouts)

Almonds (for sprouts)

Apple seeds (need to be chilled to sprout)

Avocado pits

Bananas? Nope, not the commercial kinds (see below)

Beans (dried)

Beet tops

Blackberries?

Black-eyed peas

Blueberries

Cantaloupe seeds

Carrot tops

Chick peas or garbanzo beans

Coffee beans (raw) (Yes, they really do grow. I even got beans!)

Cucumber seeds? (Haven’t tried them)

Cumin seeds

Coriander seeds (Cilantro)

Figs

Flax seeds

Garlic cloves

Grapefruit seeds

Kiwi?

Lemon seeds

Lentils (dried)

Lime seeds

Mango pit

Mung beans

Onion nibs (bottoms) or bulbs

Orange seeds

Papaya seeds

Pear seeds (also need to be chilled)

Peanuts (raw)

Pecans (whole)

Pepper seeds

Pineapple tops

Plum (chilled)

Popcorn (raw seeds)

Potato peels with eyes or whole potatoes

Pumpkin seeds (seeds saved from home sometimes have crossed with squash and grow into interesting fruit)

Radish tops

Raspberry?

Sesame seeds

Squash seeds

Sunflower seeds (raw)

Sweet potatoes or yams

Tomatillo seeds

Tomato seeds

Watermelon seeds (but not the seedless kinds)

Wheat, in the form of wheat berries for sprouting




Wild bananas grow from seeds, so you can buy them. However, our commercial varieties don't produce viable seeds. Those brown dots are not truly seeds.