High and earlier crop of vegetables can be get only from high-quality seeds. At sowing of bad seeds not help neither careful soil cultivation, nor its heavy fertilization. Everybody who will not be counted with this rule can not reap a crop of his work.
Good-quality seeds are considered as:
- Well developed,
- Free from extraneous impurity (lumps of the soil, sand, impurity of seeds of other plants, especially weedy),
- Normally painted,
- Tested for an amicable and full germination,
- Characteristic color, taste and a smell.
Color of seeds depends from:
- Degrees of their ripeness,
- Ways of treatment,
- And sometimes from age.
· Not quite grown ripe seeds of cabbage have not light brown color peculiar to them,
· Light color of seeds of a cucumber specifies in their freshness. Bad harvesting and bad drying changes the color,
· Large seeds have also good shine. With increase in age of seeds they gradually lose shine,
· If seeds became rancid or they have a musty smell, it means, they damaged.
It is recommended to store seeds in room conditions at temperature not above 20°ะก. At a cool storage they lose germination.
