Sunday, July 21, 2013

Saving Seeds

Working this week on the well-manicured two acres I realized that I could be saving seeds from some of the hundreds of flowers I clip every week. So I set out to save seeds with ordinary envelopes and a pen… and my clippers.

I could get fancy with printing out seed labels and packets to hold all the seeds, but that will have to wait until a less crazy week to do it the right way and not have it rushed.
Seeds I saved this week: Daisies, Blanket flower, Jethro Tull or Tickseed, a red Columbine, and one I don’t know (if anyone can help me out with the name I would love it!), so I described it as purple flower with long string/ hair like leaves grows 2 feet tall.

Jethro Tull or Tickseed
Here we go. Saving seeds is easy and much cheaper than buying them.

Almost Ready

Ready



Daisy

 1. Find flowers/ plants you like

2. Ask permission before clipping if they are not yours

3. Wait for the perfect moment

4. Clip

5. Dry

6. Label and store
Almost ready

Ready
Columbine

Ready
Almost ready



Blanket Flower
Almost Ready


Ready

Mystery Flower


Almost Ready
Ready

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