Gone to Seed ; Now Is the Time to Sow the Seeds of Success for the Garden in Future Years, As Hannah Stephenson Explains.

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BEFORE you ditch those tired summer container plants, cut down your perennials or dig up the bolted veg from your allotment, spend a little time gathering seeds to give you an abundance of flowers and fruits next year.

Self-seeders include annual poppies, foxgloves, lady's mantle, aquilega and love-in-a-mist, which will pop up all over the place in future years. If you want a more organised display, collect the seeds before they self-sow, so you can control where they appear in the garden. Saving seed is an economical way to build up numbers of species to create drifts, but remember that seed from highly bred plants won't come true and should be viewed as experimental only.

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Gone to Seed ; Now Is the Time to Sow the Seeds of Success for the Garden in Future Years, As Hannah Stephenson Explains.

Seeds from many plants, including nasturtium and nigella, should be stored in paper envelopes in a cool, dry place until you are read...

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