What does it mean when you let your vegetable go to seed? How do you do this?

TIA

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(Ok - to the best of my knowledge)....

When referring to vegetables "going to seed", it is most often leaving them out on the plant, not picking them at all, and letting them decompose back into the ground. If you do this, some of the seeds will most likely take hold and grow. They may not be strong hardy plants, but they will grow.
For instance....when farmers plant corn, and then harvest it, most often some of the unshucked ears are left behind on the ground. Over the winter (if not tilled in the fall), they will decompose and these seeds will end up in the ground In the spring new stalks will grow. Or - when squirrels bury the entire ear in your yard for food, it sprouts up your own little personal corn field when it's forgotten about

Another way is to let the vegetables go on the plant, and then try to harvest the seeds out, then dry for planting next year.

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Thanks! I may just have to try this one of these years. Of course, I'll have to wait till I grow a garden I'm going start a garden next year, so you'll probably see me in here a lot then. Thanks again!

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sorry, deleted b/c it was supposed to be a new topic.
allgirls

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allgirls, mom to 3 girls

Some plants that do not have blossoms will grow them, on the ends of these buds are seeds.

Leaf Lettuce will go to seed if you do not cut it regularly. Once that happens the leaves become too bitter.