How Do You Collect Seeds From Plants?
“Hi, this is Yolanda Vanveen and in this segment I’m going to talk about how to collect seeds from plants. Now the best time to collect seeds from plants is, when they’ve turned to seed and before it rains really hard and they turn to mush in the fall. So in the heat of the summer or as soon as they’ve made little seed pods that you see that are pretty much on the dry side, you can save them. Now these Alliums are great, because they were done blooming months ago, the seeds are still good and they’re very dry. An easy way to collect seeds, is to save them right into an envelope. And you can just pull them right off or you can cut them off, but I like to just put them right into an envelope. And then that way they stay on the dry side, and then keep the envelope in a dry place. So once you’ve collected quite a few seeds, you can turn around and plant them right away or wait till the next spring and plant them. An just mark your envelope, these are Allium, and you’ve got some seeds. I’ve
