Garden To Done

Today was a weird day due to bad sleep patterns last night.  The good news is that I think I'm tired enough now to sleep through the night.  Anyway, as a consequence, I got little done.  My right hand is in loads of pain so that's also an influence.

- collected all the calendula seeds, some arugula seeds, some chard seeds, and some flatleaf Italian parsley seeds before the rain hit.  Wish I had been able to get the larkspur seed.

- pruned off the dead bits from the calendula and cut all the "straw" into smaller pieces to start to form a mulch.

- pulled out the dead Cerinthe major purpurea and planted the Cerinthe retorta in the front yard.

If you have more money than time, it's not worth saving seeds. However, if you have a bit more time, it's fun and interesting.  Most modern gardening encourages people to prune spent flower, which means we're constantly getting in the way of the plants' attempt to reproduce.  Then we spend more money to get more of the plants.  It's pretty fascinating to see the different ways plants have of reproducing.  Different flower types, different seed types.  Some reseeding easily and others needing help from something else to germinate.  For instance, I'm told that I'll need to pour boiling water over the parsley seed to get it to germinate.