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Harvesting seeds
Shelley PEMBROKESHIRE
Posts: 88
hi there
I've spent a lot of money this year on plants
I'd like to know when
And how to harvest seeds from them 
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Dwarf Stock mixed Matthiola incana
Wait until the pods on the plant go dark brown or black, when you give them a little shake they will rattle in the pods.
Some you can sow straight away, some its best to wait till Spring.
I sowed my Stocks in late Summer, for early Spring flowering, depends what you have.
The flowers have nearly all gone will they flower again this year?
Or is it best to leave them die off or take the pods off now and store them
dry them out?
If the pods are brown and rattling as Lyn describes, you can take them off and remove the seeds from the pods. I'd be surprised if they're that advanced.
In the sticks near Peterborough
No they not brown yet
I thought the flowers would have lasted a little longer
I don't grow the matthiola but some plants will produce more flowers if you dead head them but then you don't get seeds
In the sticks near Peterborough
R the seeds inside the long dangling things
sorry if I sound thick but I'm a new gardener
yes..and they will go black, then they are ready for picking.
i don't know how many you need to grow but you will get hundreds from a couple of those pods, so if you want to cut the others off, that's ok.