Ann B.
01-30-2005, 05:48 PM
I have done this so many times. Let me explain...
If I see a 6 pack of a particular Marigold that I like, it usually costs around $1.00. A packet of seeds will cost at least that. The blooms will produce seeds in a very short time, and I can harvest the seeds, plant them fresh and obtain even more seeds to seve for the next year.
Tom brought up a point about Datura. It doesn't mean that the seeds will always come true, but with annuals, many of them will be just as nice as the mother plant.
I guess I am just what you call a seed collector. I harvest more seeds than I can possibly ever plant.
Today, I harvested some Oleander and Dog Wood seeds. Who knows if I will ever get them planted, but they fascinate me just the same. Hopefully, I will have a chance to give them a try.
Pansies and Pinks also produce a lot of seeds as well as impatients and annual vinca. The Candy Lily also produces a lot of seeds.
4 O'clocks produce seeds also. I have been leary to grow those in the past because they can become invasive here, but my mother had a huge one that came back every year, and I didn't see them invade other areas of the garden. There are some new varieties, but I never see those on the bedding market, so I suppose I will opt to try some of the newer variety of seeds.
Those are my thoughts as I visit the seed racks...
If I see a 6 pack of a particular Marigold that I like, it usually costs around $1.00. A packet of seeds will cost at least that. The blooms will produce seeds in a very short time, and I can harvest the seeds, plant them fresh and obtain even more seeds to seve for the next year.
Tom brought up a point about Datura. It doesn't mean that the seeds will always come true, but with annuals, many of them will be just as nice as the mother plant.
I guess I am just what you call a seed collector. I harvest more seeds than I can possibly ever plant.
Today, I harvested some Oleander and Dog Wood seeds. Who knows if I will ever get them planted, but they fascinate me just the same. Hopefully, I will have a chance to give them a try.
Pansies and Pinks also produce a lot of seeds as well as impatients and annual vinca. The Candy Lily also produces a lot of seeds.
4 O'clocks produce seeds also. I have been leary to grow those in the past because they can become invasive here, but my mother had a huge one that came back every year, and I didn't see them invade other areas of the garden. There are some new varieties, but I never see those on the bedding market, so I suppose I will opt to try some of the newer variety of seeds.
Those are my thoughts as I visit the seed racks...