Characteristics, gathering and sowing

Do I have to buy the seeds for the mustard?

You can get the seeds of the Mustard easy to collect from your plants yourself if you don't cut off the withered inflorescences but let them ripen. If you don't want to go to the trouble of this or if you don't have any cloves at all, you will find a wide variety of seeds in specialist shops.

You can shop on the Internet as well as in local nurseries or specialist shops to suit your taste. Often colorful mixtures with double or single flowers are offered, but occasionally also individual colors. This is especially true for rarer or special colors, such as the black and red flowering variety Dianthus barbatus nigrescens “Sooty”.

Are the seeds always pure in color?

With the seeds you buy, you can assume that you will get the colors that are on the Bag are shown, with a colorful mix there should be at least a certain variety of colors be. The plants that have been grown will also be filled or simply flowering as desired.

Sow If, on the other hand, you choose seeds that you have collected yourself, your experiment is like a little surprise bag, because you do not know which hereditary properties of the parent plants will prevail. You can only breed your own plants with pure color by cuttings.

Does the bearded carnation sow itself?

Like many other summer flowers, the mustard sows itself, provided you don't cut all of your plants after flowering. Leave some inflorescences to allow the seeds to mature. They fall to the ground and soon germinate. As light germs, they do not need any special treatment by the gardener. The young mustard carnations are relatively hardy and only need light protection from the cold.

The essentials in brief:

• buy or collect
• hardy
• collected seeds are not pure in color
• self-seeding
• Light germs