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Talkback: How to collect and sow foxglove seed

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    a business  opportunity Lizzy. Invent a fancy name for them and get them on ebayimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • LizzybusyLizzybusy Posts: 87

    Hi Nutcutlet

    I do sell some plants on ebay, but foxgloves? Wouldn't know what colour they would be! I guess the £5 charge is for the selective breeding! image

     

  • MotherBMotherB Posts: 5
    I often think I should sell plants. Do people actually buy them on eBay?
  • LizzybusyLizzybusy Posts: 87

    Yes! I enjoy spreading the joy of plants. Postage is the big killer though.

  • I paid £9 for a mature foxglove this week! from a posh garden centre near me! Hopefully it will lead to many more! Do they self so quite easily? 

  • I don't have a cold frame, can I put my pots with seeds in on my kitchen window sill? image

  • yarrow2yarrow2 Posts: 782

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     No idea what this one is but would like to try and do something to reproduce, no matter the eventual colour.  Presumably these seed pods are too green for removing or collecting just now?  Not sure whether to leave the stem as it is for a while longer or chop it now and keep the pods or just chop this stem off and hope for side shoots.  I can't remember which type this is, think it was classed as a small or miniature or something.  It's only about 5 ft.

  • MotherBMotherB Posts: 5
    I'd go with what Katherine W said. Leave the stem until you can hear the seeds rattling then use the ones on the middle of the stem.

    I'm definitely trying that this year. Mine are still green so will have to wait a while.
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Hello , I just let them self seed in the garden , if in the wrong position just pull them up image

  • At the moment I don't have any in the garden, my beds are new. I've been given some spikes by my neighbour image

     

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