How to dry, harvest, and plant annual flower seeds for your flower garden.

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If you're wondering how to grow flowers, you'll enjoy this. It's about how to dry, harvest, and plant annual flower seeds for your flower garden. For this example I've used Marigolds, as they are a very hardy flowering plant and easy to dry and harvest. You'll want your flowers to dry out on the plant if possible, but if you live in area with a lot of wind, rain or snow, you may want to clip your flowers in the fall and let them dry out inside you garage or other cool area. In the spring, take your dry flowers, remove the petals, and roll the rest of the flower like you are putting out a cigarette. Bad analogy, because smoking is bad for you, but that is how you do it! As you roll the flower between your fingers the seeds will fall out. If they don't fall out you probably didn't let the flower dry out enough. Once the dried seeds fall out of the flower save them for when you are ready to plant. I usually do this at the same time as when I'm ready to plant, so I go right from the flower to putting the seed in the soil. Moisten your soil before you put the flower seeds in, then place the seeds right on top the soil, and place a very small amount of soil on the flower seed. With small seeds you only press them into the soil or put 1/8 of an inch of soil on the flower seed. Water it again and put them in your greenhouse. I don't really know if this works with other plants and flowers. I hope you've enjoyed learning how to plant flower seeds! It's not too hard to learn how to plant flowers from seeds. Good luck and let me know how your flowers turn out! Please leave you comments below about what you've learned here about how to save flower seeds. If you are saving seeds from your garden and learned something about flowers here, I would love to hear from you. "Decisions" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0. http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100756. Permissions beyond the scope of this license are available at http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/licenses/.

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Great video,
I think it's so nice to see the kids in the background
A good dad and family man that still gets things done and watches the kids at the same time.
Takes me back!
Thanks

Very useful thank you, subbed!

Shut the damn kids up

great video! i saved some marigold seeds last year.. can't wait to plant them this year....

We don't usually start our seeds in small containers we sow them directly into prepared beds, just water them in and because we sow so many seeds we get a bumper crop and we always get some surprise flowers popping up in the yard that the birds have dropped. We keep them We buy simple brown lunch bags and usually have enough flower heads to fill about 1/2 or more of the bag roll the top, label them and put them in a box for next year. You would be surprised to see the large mounds of Marigolds, Zinnias, Black eyed Susans and Lavendar we get with this method. They can always be thinned although we like the look of lots of flowers.

If I store them am I suppose to let them dry before I put it in my envelope? This will be my first year harvesting seeds.

But how did you store them over the Winter? I've been dead-budding my Marigolds but have no idea how to store those buds until next season. How is it done? In airtight bags or containers, in open bags, in cool or warm areas?

dont the marigold have to be brown down to the stem to save as seed?

can i take the seeds from the flowerheads and put them directly in earth to grow more marigolds??? or i have to dry them

i was looking for merrygold seeding from a month and i got it. i will follow it

I am glad, I watched your video. Now, I know, how to save seeds. Thank you very much Rich Hersey, for sharing your knowledge about flower seeds. I am first time flower grower, I didn't know where the seeds were about any flowers, now I know. :)))

Hello Rich, thanks for reminding me of what was taught me 35 years ago......great help on using seeds from the garden........what could be better this time of year... THX RICH

Seedlings were coming up from those that fell from last years plants right in my large pots. Great flowers. In Az were get an early start. We are in the hot months now. Some mature plants have died. How do I reseed in August for new plants?

Great Video thanks :)

I loved your video! It was very helpful since I am new at this!

I hope you've enjoyed this how to save flower seeds video. If you are saving seeds from your garden and learned something about flowers here, please leave a comment.