The flower may look finished, but the gardening value might not be finished at all. Those crispy brown flower heads hanging from your plants can contain perfectly good seeds that you can collect, store, and use to grow another round of flowers next year without buying another packet.
Seed saving turns one season of flowers into next season’s planting material, which makes it one of the simplest ways to stretch a gardening budget. It also gives gardeners a chance to preserve favorite plants, experiment with different locations, and enjoy the oddly satisfying feeling of getting something useful out of what looks like garden debris.
