Yay!! I was rather successful at my first attempt at seed saving! I have turned into quite a greedy little gardener. Every neighbor's or friend's house I've gone to in the last month I've had the thought in my mind of "what can I scavenge from their garden"...but I've been giving quite a lot of my seeds away in exchange. It's pretty fun to trade seeds.
I've got tons of cosmos, South African Pearl Daisies, Galliardia, Giant Chives, Summer Savory, Lemon Bergamot, Amaranthus Dreadlocks, Dahlias (I was successful after all!), Bachelor Buttons, Marigolds, some purple daisy I don't know the name of, Coreopsis, Calendula, Maximillian Sunflowers, Echinacea, and Stevia. Next year I will try out saving vegetable seeds. It sounds a bit more tricky, since you have to mash, wash & dry them...
It was a bit of a learning process; I hope to write a bit of what I picked up (THAT'S the seed?!?!) in future articles, along with pictures. Pictures speak a thousand words, as usual.
Below are a few pictures of my operation:
