You can just shake them out where you want then to bloom. Or stuff them in a paper bag in a dry place for a few days until most of the seeds have come out (shake the bag gently) and then sprinkle the seed here and there where you want plants. You should have plenty of seeds so be generous, but mostly they come up very well.
I also sometimes sow some in some very deep boxes of good compost somewhere shady under trees. As Edd said, they don't need to be fussed over, just keps moist. These can be thinned, and then planted out directly in autumn, without potting up, potting on etc..
We have had some monsters too this year! I let them seed where they are then see what germinates and move them in the spring when I am doing my daffodil deadheading. I find they transfer better then as the ground is warming and the frosts are not as hard. Never had much luck with growing them from seed they either shrivel or go mouldy
Thank you Katherine W ...... wow thought it would be more complicated than that .... I don't suppose I can do the same with lupin seeds, and or poppies I've been given some of those 'pods' too
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You can just shake them out where you want then to bloom. Or stuff them in a paper bag in a dry place for a few days until most of the seeds have come out (shake the bag gently) and then sprinkle the seed here and there where you want plants. You should have plenty of seeds so be generous, but mostly they come up very well.
I also sometimes sow some in some very deep boxes of good compost somewhere shady under trees. As Edd said, they don't need to be fussed over, just keps moist. These can be thinned, and then planted out directly in autumn, without potting up, potting on etc..
We have had some monsters too this year! I let them seed where they are then see what germinates and move them in the spring when I am doing my daffodil deadheading. I find they transfer better then as the ground is warming and the frosts are not as hard. Never had much luck with growing them from seed they either shrivel or go mouldy
Thank you Katherine W ...... wow thought it would be more complicated than that .... I don't suppose I can do the same with lupin seeds, and or poppies I've been given some of those 'pods' too
It's quite early for ripe pods of these. Are they brown and dry?
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Nutcutlet, not yet I have them in my airing cupboard??
They need to ripen on the plant, until the seed pods start to open naturally.
You can dry a seed after it's harvested but it does need to have matured as a seed before it leaves the plant.
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Does that mean no lupins for me next year
I'll upload the poppies image next 
No, they are still green and unripe. They will rot, not germinate
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