I have been busy with some of the less obvious tasks that can be done around the garden during winter. These are Calendula (pot marigold) seeds. They have been drying on the plant. You can collect a huge number of seeds completely for free. I also intend to keep some mallow seeds this year. I like both calendula and mallow - they are not difficult to grow here and they provide a lot of beautiful, unashamed colour for many months. All I do is wait until the seed heads have dried on the plants. You can also cut and hang them to dry. I store the seeds in cheap brown envelopes with the name of the plant and a date of when I collected them. I then keep them in a cool spot indoors in a large plastic container.
An added bonus of the Calendula is that the seed can produce all sorts of different flowers - from yellows to oranges, and even different shapes and sizes of flower. You never know what you will get!
An added bonus of the Calendula is that the seed can produce all sorts of different flowers - from yellows to oranges, and even different shapes and sizes of flower. You never know what you will get!
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