Last year, I could not get some of my favorite flower seeds from the usual source. They had sold out. So, I did a search online for that particular seed, Thunbergia (which I have grown from seed for years), and came across Swallowtail Garden Seeds. They also had several varieties of gazania seeds, another flower […]
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Organized Seed Saving and Ordering
Now is a good time to go through and organize any of last year’s, or any remaining seed, that you have been saving. It will help with your seed ordering and buying. It will help you be able to organize new seeds that arrive. It will help you be more efficient when it is time […]
Helpless Female Learns to Harvest Sunflower Seeds
The kitchen table had been obscured by huge mature sunflower heads for a week. I had had some nice help getting the seeds out of the flower head a few days prior, but it was using individually creative and time consuming methods. If I was to continue the process myself, I needed to be faster […]
Saving Cape Daisy Seeds is Easy
The key to saving flower seeds is knowing where to find the seeds! Some seeds are obvious, like those on holly hocks or marigold. They flaunt themselves at the end of old flower heads, only to later be strewn all over the ground surface. You could harvest these seeds simply by sweeping them off of […]
Deciding to Thin or Transplant Petunia Seedlings
I try to prepare myself. I try to use methods of planting that will yield conservative numbers of unnecessary seedlings. I try. But when the seeds are so little (petunia seeds) that they are hard to see even with reading glasses, picking up and planting just a couple per cell pot is challenging. The little […]