I'm Going To Seed!

Collecting seed is fun and will save you money, says Toby.

- Toby Buckland

DESPITE the washout weather, flowers have a bumper crop of kernels that are ripe and ready for harvest and I’ve gathered more seed than at any time since I had a job collecting seed at a botanic garden!

For the veg plot I’ve been bagging-up the heads of companion and cut-flowers that I’ll sow next year for colour along the ends of rows of vegetables. The fat plates of spent sunflowers, the wiry tops of larkspur and cosmos are all easy and worthwhile, as are French marigolds.