The best time to collect seeds
What’s the Best Time to Collect Seeds?
Written by: Chris Murray
Vice Chair for Propagation & Seed Share GCA Horticulture Committee
Question: What’s the best time to collect seeds? Answer: Any time they are ripe!
Fall is an ideal time collect seeds for a variety of uses:
Share them by posting them on the Seed Share section of the GCA web site: https://www.gcamerica.org/index.cfm/members:seeds/list
Use them for winter sow, that wonderfully easy way to grow seeds without having to deal with the pesky issues of cold, moist stratification and hardening off: https://www.gcamerica.org/members:showcases/details/id/1026
Grow them for harvesting in fall 2022 for the (fingers crossed hybrid) Shirley Meneice Seed Share at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston or for growing plants for the Plant Exchange there. https://www.gcamerica.org/members:news/get/id/3325
Share them in your own communities for projects such as public plantings pollinator gardens and school projects.
Plant them in your garden for your own enjoyment.
Happy Growing!
Chris Murray
Vice Chair for Propagation & Seed Share GCA Horticulture Committee
