Central Texas Gardener Seed Sharing Video

Hi Y’all, Colleen here. HEY IT IS TIME TO START SAVING SEEDS! In the photo above I harvested seeds from Milk Thistle. If you are new to seed saving, just choose one plant this season and let it go to seed, do some research and gain some experience with collecting from just one plant. Cilantro is a good choice to start with. The seeds are appearing now on top of the plant where the flowers were. The seeds will dry out and they are referred to as “Coriander” and can be used as a spice in cooking or you can save them to plant again next year… and make sure you share some at the library.

In addition to my business as a landscape consultant with Red Wheelbarrow, I am the founder of Central Texas Seed Savers, an organization dedicated to preventing extinction by sharing seeds.

In fact, I did a “Backyard Basics” segment for Central Texas Gardener about how to share seeds at the library.

I am excited to tell you that I will be appearing on Central Texas Gardener on KLRU, the local Austin PBS station at noon & 4:00 on Saturday, and 9 a.m. on Sunday, and various times and dates this weekend statewide and on PBS stations outside of Texas. In fact, the entire program is on pbs.org and our segment is on YouTube! I did a “Backyard Basics” segment about how to share seeds at the library. Enjoy and share!