My daughter and I spend the other sidereal day digress the yard take in seeds from the various plants that have flirt out most of their procreative lives this season .
We started with the many orange cosmos ( Cosmos sulphureus)scattered around the food timber .
They make semen head that look a lot likeBidens alba . petty sharp wiz of almost disgraceful seeds , waiting for a cash in one’s chips animal or a in effect blast to knock them to the ground . Cosmos attract a lot of pollinator – they seem to be a particular favorite of the zebra longwings that fleet endlessly through my yard .
The seed are easy to foregather by scooping them off the brown heads and dropping them into something convenient .
After the cosmos , we actuate on to theTithonia rotundifolia , an one-year full cousin ofTithonia diversifolia , also confusingly called a “ Mexican sunflower . ”
With these guy cable , I just snip off the blossom head after they drop their petals , turn brownish and point towards the dry land . buzz off the seeds out is a small bit of a task since they ’re wedged firmly inside the head . I basically just bump them apart , pick out the bigger chunks and let the stubble and seed pose in the bowl . I ’ll toss them both out together on the land when I replant in the springtime .
From there , it was on to thebuckwheat bed .
We got pot of source from our buckwheat experiment , though I had to wait a while for a wry day to start gather them . The seeds are jolly easy to gather from the dry out works . I rolled them around in my hands to fail off the fiddling bit of stem left stick to the grains , then stream them from one pail to another in front of a box fan to blow away the miscellaneous leafage and stalk . This year ’s seeds will be used for planting , though Rachel really , really wants to run through them . Maybe I ’ll give her ONE to eat . JUST ONE !
After the Polygonum fagopyrum , we displace to the back G and garner a bunch of seeds from the little bed of zinnias my daughter and I had planted some months back .
With zinnias , the seeds take form at the base of the old petals . It ’s not too hard to pick them out . you could do it without beheading them , but I like decapitate things .
Once we gathered and clean our seed ( not very meticulously ) , we label envelopes for the bounty and put them aside for the spring .
This next twelvemonth I ’m be after on adding a short ton of flowers to the food forest in order toadd habitat , confuse predator , attract pollinatorsand just generally make the G look amazing as heck .
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