Depending on the variety, flower seed is quite expensive. You can save that money by harvesting your own seeds and having them ready for next season.
Annual flowers develop seeds, which you will find inside the flowers, throughout the summer. If you collect the seeds and fill them in bags in small seed portions and label them, sowing is guaranteed for the coming spring. It is important that you keep the seeds dry and airy.
Pay attention to the ripening point
Seeds cannot be harvested until they reach a certain maturity. You can tell by the fact that the seeds detach from the flower almost by themselves, or can be removed very easily. Some plants literally hurl their seeds out, so you need to get there first. Cut the flower and collect the seeds.
A good way to get all the seeds is to put the cut shoots in a bowl to dry. So the seeds fall out on their own and you just have to collect them. It is stored in an opaque container or bag, an envelope can also be used.
New specimens thanks to self-harvested seed
If you plant seeds next year, however, you will find that the buds of the next generation will look different than last year's specimens. The background is that these previous year's seeds were often hybrids. Nevertheless, very beautiful and very attractive specimens for the garden arise from self-collected seeds.
It is particularly easy to harvest the seeds of cosmos, marigolds, petunias and ornamental tobacco, sunflowers, vetches, marigolds, poppies and maiden in the green. The only important thing for success is the correct storage of the seeds and that the harvest takes place before they are sown in the garden.
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