What do you allow to self seed?

**Gardener Bod** · 21-04-2014, 06:42 PM

I let hellebores, foxgloves and love in the most (nigella) self seed - they are always welcome and it's a wonderful surprise to see them pop up.

**Ja9** · 21-04-2014, 07:09 PM

Yes I let hellebores too but they are often a bit of a murky purple.

**Alison** · 21-04-2014, 07:16 PM

I let masses of stuff self seed but very little of it is by plan, most of it is because I don't dead dead in time. If it's something I like I'll transplant it to where I want it otherwise I'll pull it up and compost.

**AllInContainers** · 21-04-2014, 08:47 PM

Tricky to say. I'm sure some stuff self seeds, but if I see something growing that I haven't sown or planted, out it comes. I'm not prepared for stuff to get laerge enough for identification before making the decision

**veggiechicken** · 21-04-2014, 08:55 PM

I let everything self-seed. If its happy, let it grow

**alldigging** · 21-04-2014, 09:41 PM

I've got some cabbage and kale in flower. The bees are loving them.

**hellybore** · 21-04-2014, 09:53 PM

I let most flowers self-seed - I love litttle surprises popping up. At the allotment I've got marigolds, evening primrose, borage and comfrey merrily seeding themselves aound - my neighbouring plotholders may get some for free too!

**Alison** · 22-04-2014, 06:27 AM

Originally posted by hellybore View Post

I let most flowers self-seed - I love litttle surprises popping up. At the allotment I've got marigolds, evening primrose, borage and comfrey merrily seeding themselves aound - my neighbouring plotholders may get some for free too!

My neighbours just give me dandelions for free

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**Scarlet** · 22-04-2014, 08:47 AM

I let most things self seed, love the birds on the Mexican tree spinach and sunflower plants in the Autumn. Hellebores I tend to pot up and plant where I want them. I have a chard patch at the moment which is great but I wish I'd been a bit more careful with the parsnips.

**alldigging** · 22-04-2014, 09:14 AM

Seeds, Eclectic Victorian Vegetable Seed from Pennard Plants
Oo they sell Mexican tree spinach (And lots of other things!)

**Feral007** · 22-04-2014, 10:53 AM

Everything I can. Poppies. Unfortunately no other flower seems to want to self seed at my place.

I have two huuuuuuuge beds of rainbow chard and 3 other lots in other beds. Hoping for some bok choy but it's not looking good.
I've got lettuce springing up everywhere atm. Some broadbeans have been missed in the picking, and the smallish ones in the pods that went back into the waffle garden are also coming up. I'm hoping for celery, bok choy, broccoli, cabbage. All self seeds welcome here. Oh and potatoes that we missed last year came good this year. I saw a few we missed this year when I was mulching.
Also garlic about 5 that were missed in the picking.

**mothhawk** · 22-04-2014, 06:04 PM

Foxgloves, poached eggs (limnanthes), forget-me-nots, cyclamen, and Jacob's ladder (polemonium) are the main things that self seed in my garden, but I shake seeds from almost everything all around. I think a lot are snaffled up by the wild birds though.

I discourage aquilegia and Welsh poppies and violets, 'cos they can take over a small garden so quickly and are hard to grub out, whereas a foxglove in the wrong place is easy to whip out, and just as easy to shove in somewhere else.

**Jeanied** · 22-04-2014, 06:08 PM

On the plot - parsley and parsnip and some sweet rocket!
At home - anything that looks good

I have lots of things that are spreading, like periwinkle and lily of the valley.

**Two_Sheds** · 24-04-2014, 07:01 AM

I let everything self-seed (except weeds).
Then if something's in the wrong place I move it. If there's simply too many plants, I chop them up & drop them on the soil surface, as a mulch

Nothing's wasted

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