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Collecting seeds from your own flowers
Everyone loves a bed of colourful flowers in the summer. Flowers are the plants' reproductive organs and will produce seeds if you leave them on the plant. Most people throw the seed heads away with the dead plant in the autumn, but they could recover the seed and plant it in the spring. If you have a large garden you need to buy a lot of seeds every year. Most gardeners derive a lot of satisfaction from growing plants from seed they have saved from the previous year's plants. You only need to buy each type of flower seed once! Seeds from F1 hybrid flowers will not produce plants the same as its parent, but will usually give you something that will flower for a spare corner of the garden. To save your seeds just leave a few flower heads on the plants until they are brown and dry looking. Put the flower heads into paper envelopes and keep them somewhere cool until the spring. Shake the flower heads in the spring and the seeds will fall out. If in doubt, just rub the whole flower between finger and thumb and cover the whole powdered flower with compost. It does not matter if you have planted a few ground up petals as well as the seeds after all. |
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