Are You Collecting Flower Seeds This September?

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Growing a cut flower garden in zone 8b, Scotland.
Now it is September it is a great time to start saving seeds from your annual flowers. In this video I take you down to the flower patches to show you what flowers I am saving seed from, the stage I harvest it and what I do to store the seeds until I am ready to sow them.
Some of the seeds I am saving today are from:
Daucus
Ammi
Calendula
Cornflowers
Buplereum
Nigella
Orlaya
Other ideas for seed collecting are:
Cosmos
Scabious
Poppies
Sweet peas
Sunflowers
Zinnias
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[@Blissfulspaces]

Absolutely!

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hope you get lots of lovely seed saved 😊

[@Blissfulspaces]

Thank you, so much.😊 I'm looking forward to a bountiful harvest, and your good wishes mean a lot to me. Wishing you a wonderful day!"@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm

[@alisonburgess345]

I was saved this year by self sown seedlings - not a single bought rudbeckia seed germinated and I was resigned to having none this year. I was weeding the other day and found half a dozen tiny seedlings which I instantly transplanted safely into a bed. Phew! I will save my own seed in future - you can't always rely on store-bought seed..😢

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

That’s great you found some self seeded ones. It’s true you can’t always rely on shop bought seed. For me it has been cosmos germination the last 2 years. Significantly down with shop bought seed than it was in previous years. There is something so lovely about saving your own seed too.

[@susanconsidine2648]

Yes must save Cerinthe. Just gorgeous.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Cerinthe is fabulous! Love it 😍

[@edmundhawan3886]

Great information Saving already for next season How time flies Thanks for the guidance Regards Sharon Ireland

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Time does pass quickly, I can’t believe that we are getting towards the end of another growing season already. I hope you are getting lots of seeds saved. Our weather has turned now and some very wet days so hoping we will get another dry spell to collect more seed soon.

[@paulrush5935]

Great 👍 info really helpful

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you for watching, I am glad you enjoyed my seed saving video.

[@jaynetanner3757]

I love saving seeds, Zinnia did really well for me this year, thanks for the video

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks so much for watching. I am glad your zinnia seeds you saved did so well. They are great flowers to save seed from.

[@grahamlock4413]

First class, great advice best video I have seen so far. Being an OAP now I need to keep an eye out for ways to make the garden look good without costing too much, Seed collecting is a fantastic way and is very enjoyable, Foxgloves seem to be the thing I can bring on from seed, but I am trying others as well. Thank you.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you so much for watching this week. I am glad you enjoyed it. Seed saving is such a lovely thing to do and it really does help save some pennies which is helpful when there are always so many things we would like to buy for our gardens.

[@marie9244]

Thank you Catherine great advice . At least you know that your seed is fresh. I suppose you can use desiccants to keep moisture out of your seed storing containers.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Yes you do have the knowledge of knowing your seed is fresh and writing the dates on the envelopes just gives you a good idea months later how old it is. Yes you can use things like silica satchets to keep the moisture away when storing the seeds.

[@aboutthegarden]

What a great video, thank you for sharing this. I was hoping you could please help me with Nigella. I would love to dry the seed pods for arrangements and wondered at which stage I should cut them for that. I cut some too soon I think and they shrivelled up quite a bit. Any advice would be so appreciated. Thanks again for a fab video. ❤

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hi thanks so much for watching. I am glad you found it helpful. Nigella for seed pods in arrangements I cut when they are green and green stems. They have not started to brown or split at all at the top. I do it quite early, very soon after the petals have dropped and on a dry day.

[@aboutthegarden]

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm ah, thank you so much, I can cut mine now then. I’m trying to clear out for new plants so that’s great. I hope you are having a good day ☺️