saving and sowing seeds (Bedding Plants in General)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Bedding Plants in General
Date:	01/08/02 (1256 review reads)
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SAVING AND PLANTING SEED'S

Some of my garden has begun to look faded and tatty the flowers on the sweet Williams are dead, so are the dog daisies and the calendula (pot marigolds are beginning to go to seed. The honesty has lost its flowers and has some pretty paper like windows, the love in the mists petals have fallen, and the aquilegia has pepper pots not flowers.

They may look a little tatty but I have not pulled them up I am letting them complete their life cycle. Seed, plant flower, seed rest awhile then plant flower seed all over again and again.

Today decided some of the seeds were ripe so I cleared the sweet Williams put their heads in a paper bag and gave them a good shake the seeds fell out of the seed capsule each flower had produced many seeds

What I did next was to dig a little of the garden over lightly and buried the seed 0.5 cm deep. I shall try and keep it moist and hopefully in October I will have small plants shall probably move them to where I want them to flower they will flower next year between may and July

A packet of sweet William seeds from Mr Fothergills cost 99p
Suggests sowing seeds in April to July, but I think you might get away with sowing your seeds from old plants now



I have got a lot of bright orange calendula (marigolds) flowers brightening up my garden. Some of these are self-sown. They are beginning to form seeds each flower must have 15-20 seeds
How I deal with these is as they ripen I collect them and some I sprinkle immediately on the garden where I want them to flower next year others I collect when ripe and put in a paper bag and store in a dry place till spring next year then I sow these in spring, where I want them to grow these will flower a little later than the self set ones.

I do the same with honesty seeds these are a biannual flowering the second year.

Forget-me-nots
I pull these up when they have finished flower
ing and put them in a paper bag let the little black seeds fall in to the bags and sow where you want them next year these are an annual flowering the first year.

Hollyhocks mine are still beautiful seeds beginning to form and ripen I think I shall
Collect some and try and grow some for sleepydormouses new garden.


A lot of seeds can be collected and saved. Each plant will produce a lot of seeds. Trying to multiply and some times I am successful with my attempts, sometimes not but I love trying there are so many plants you can try to collect seeds from and sow for next year as well as the above pansy's or foxgloves
Most of these if the seed is sown immediately they will grow or if saved till spring in a paper bag or envelope and sown in the spring will be successful
Do not store in plastic bag they will go mouldy I KNOW I have done it

Happy gardening have fun, harvest, sow and reproduce its life?s never-ending cycle
Thanks for reading Mary

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