Harvesting marigold seeds is easy and very useful. Harvesting your own seed is cost effective and growing marigolds provides a whole list of benefits to your plants and pollinators.
If you own a bee hive, planting marigolds could benefit you because it can boost honey production.
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I really do like handing out a bunch of seeds to my neighbors and my family i especially love busting open the seed heads and sprinkling them all over my garden willy-nilly. It’s very nice picking them because the smell is lovely.
Collecting your own seeds can be hard and confusing so this can be a really easy way to start saving seeds in order to save you money but also saves everyone else money that you give them.
Of course, it’s so fun for kids! Furthermore, You can save them in the freezer for up to 5 years if you don’t want to use them right away. So you basically can’t lose. I do homeschooling with my kids and this is a very easy starting point to teach my kids how to save seeds as well as to learn how pollination works. Marigolds are indeed great for this.
EQUIPMENT NEEDED:
- you can use a basket, a bag, and also pockets!
- However, I really like this Cute Apron with pockets!
HOW TO HARVEST MARIGOLDS SEEDS
- You are going to want to wait until the color is gone out of your flowers, once they start to die back.
- Make sure not to get them when they are too crispy and the seeds have started to deteriorate.
- I like to pick the dead flowers on a sunny day when they are completely dry!
HOW TO STORE MARIGOLD SEEDS
- Leave the heads somewhere where they won’t get wet, in the open air to dry otherwise they will mold.
- Store them in a plastic or paper bag and place them in the freezer to last for up to 5 years!
- I like to keep the flower heads whole until we use them. Just so they are in convenient little pods and it’s not like a bag full of dust.
HOW TO HARVEST MARIGOLD SEEDS
Harvesting marigold seeds is easy and very useful. Harvesting your own seed is cost effective and growing marigolds provides a whole list of benefits to your plants and pollinators.
Materials
- Container - basket, bag, or pockets
- Ziploc bag or paper bag
Instructions
- Find your dry, wilted flower heads.
- Make sure they aren't too deteriorated.
- Place them out in a dry area in open air.
- Store them whole in a ziploc bag in the freezer.
Notes
- Wait for the green base part of the flower to be dark and dry.
- You will notice they are beginning to deteriorate when the color of the seeds themselves turn from black to a dusty gray.
- I place mine in an open cardboard box and put it in my room.
- Make sure you put it in a dry place in your freezer.
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I started cooking at a very young age. In middle school, my friends and their parents would ask me to cook food for them because I could make something out of nothing. I love to cook up new concoctions and see what everyone likes. When I became of working age, I started as a buss boy at a barbecue restaurant, and then moved on to work all positions of the restaurant industry. From head chef of a Jamaican restaurant in Tulsa, OK, to sous chef at a highly accredited bistro on the Oregon coast, all before I turned 21.
I Inherited land in southeast Oklahoma and now spend my days working a Fedex delivery route and working with my wife and 3 young boys on our rural homestead. We raise many different kinds of animals and some vegetable gardens. I hunt all manor of large and small game, and butcher all of my own meat. We harvest wild edibles of all kinds and enjoy to cook with them and eat them.
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