I am sitting on the patio (IN THE SHADE) and enjoying a bit of vino. Life is good. The AM temp is 75 to expected 92. The sun is out and I am "hiding".
Actually, I am cutting bluebonnet seed pods off into a brown paper bag. AND -- just to be really anal about it, I am cutting the leafy bits into a 5 gallon bucket for the compost bin.
The plan is to scatter the seeds away from the gardens. Enough pods split and spit the seeds anyway.
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| Bluebonnet pods after twisting and shooting their seeds |
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| Odd plant with bluebonnet bloom AND "ripe" pods |
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| The root nodule carries a bacterium that fixes the nitrogen in the soil and allows the plant to bloom |
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| I gathered these plants and took them to the patio for shade while I cut off the seed pods. Cannot deal with the sun at all anymore | | |
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I ended up with quite a few pods. The old fashioned way to save seeds is to contain them and put them someplace warm and dry and let the seed pods mature. I wonder if I need a lid on the bag as the pods twist and shoot the seeds quite a ways.
I may divide the seeds into another bag to give them room and hopefully not get moldy.
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