Seeds have always been such a mystery to me--I mean, where and how do they materialize? I remember looking inside a not yet bloomed sunflower last year for the seeds it supposedly had. Yeah, as I suspected, no seeds. These seed thingys, I thought, are for someone else to hold, behold, and plant. Not for me.
But this spring, I bought some of these thingys to plant in my own garden, to plant from seed. Our first go together indoors was not so great. My seed trays that I faithfully brought in and out of doors each day (until I stopped remembering) didn't like my forgetful ways or the the cold spring we had this year. Direct seeding, though, worked! What fun it was for us to put a little pellet, or flake, or tiny ball in the ground and watch it turn into carrots, peas, spinach, and lettuce.
Seed saving is the next logical step for me on this path, but back to one of the original questions--where and how do these seeds materialize? Lo and behold, and again with nature's unpredictable predictability, there they were hanging off one of our dill plants, which had evidently gone to seed. Wow!
What a truly cool world.
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It just dawned on me the other day as I walked past the so stinky cilantro plant that cilantro has another use. Coriander! I totally forgot. Now these lovely little seeds are drying (I read somewhere I should let them dry on the plant) and will be ready to harvest soon. :-D
Dan has just started saving some of the seeds from our garden this year - we're excited to see if it works! Seems to obvious and yet so mysterious in many ways.
So cool! I love hearing about what's going on in your garden. I think seeds are very mysterious, too. How they happen at all is really quite extraordinary.
The miracle of seeds never ceases to thrill me every year. I'm hoping to try saving seeds for the first time this year (cilantro/coriander, dill, spinach)
I love this picture! I could look at it for a very long time.
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