More Seed Snatchin' (Part II)

Yes, how true... the other rule I (try to) follow is... no slug goes unslain!

LOL, it was in a field across from UPS in Ft. Smith, AR. I probably got watched from the windows. I parked in their parking lot and walked across the road.

I just snatched some today from my mom's Crepe Myrtle's, she didn't care. But I did come up with another seed snatching rule. If you load up your pockets with messy seeds, unload OUTSIDE! Not in the house. Now I gotta sweep the kitchen floor again. :-)

Uhh huhhh ... I knew I'd catch up to the culprit one day!!! ..
I thought you'd never confess !!
... L O L ...

- Magpye

Stopped by Ceeads place to drop off some composting leaves and noticed some hanging pots that had gone to seed. After unloading the leaves, I loaded up three pots to harvest seeds from. Told her better half I'd bring em back later... he said, 'Take what you need." I love a small town!

Hee hee! I had a successful trick or treat snatchin trip yesterday myself!! Problem is now I can't find the dag blame baggies!! One of the seeds weren't quite dry too.. have to look today!!

I got Northern Sea Oats (anybody know if I can grow it from seed?) Hosta (don't want these will mail them to you if you want) don't know the variety but it's a medium sized green one. New Guinea Impatiens and lastly Red Salvia! Those poor red salvia were just sittin there thrown seeds onto my neighbors rock mulch! Wouldn't have sprouted you know!

NC, the red salvia was probably so grateful the little seeds leaped into the bag for safety! LOL! Don't know anything about sea oats. Hosta grows fine from seed, though I usually don't get a high germination rate. The seeds are black and flat, as I recall. I'm told that hosta don't come back true from seed, so you're most likely not going to get the same hosta you collected from. Division is better if you want them true. However, some of us just like planting seeds, don't we!

I've started putting my seeds in cups when I collect. I've had so many forgotten baggies full of slimy seed heads... getting old, poor memory. I put cups in an open top box or a flat, so even when I get home and set them down, they are still getting air.

I did find out that NO one bothers a witch if she is peering at a plant and ripping off seeds the the neigborhood on Halloween night. I sent my daughter back for zip locks!! Today, they go in their little containers (with scraps of paper with the name!!) and into the drying area. Anyone want a silk tree seed?

Way to go, Anne! The neighbors were probably just relieved to see you weren't carrying toilet paper or eggs!

I think they were relieved I wasn't carrying apples, either!!

LOL!

Hee hee!!

"Token In The Tundra" has been legalized by the voters of Alaska.... ya'll better watch trying to snatch those seeds. lol lol lol



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Yes, we're a gun totin' bunch up here!

Thought I would be immune to the influance of this thread ... then on the way to the afternoon job stopped at a fast food joint & noticed that some of their landscapeing plants has bolted, I think I will have to have lunch there again tomarrow. Thanks Weezengreens!

You gals are really corrupting us newer members (not that I'm complain'n) but I can't drive anywhere now without a sideways glance to see if there's some bounty to be had. . .came home today from my DD's with 4 new 'specimen' (sp?) already dry'n in the garage. . .I think I like the side-splitting humor the best though. . .keep on corruptn' us!! ;-D Janet

... Oh my, oh my ...

Cleptobotanical Harvesting ® is quickly spreading to epidemic proportions!
Cleptobotaniac fever, I tell ya !!

Weez, hope you can live wif yorn ol bad 'kon-tay-jus' seff !! ... HEE HEE ...
(.. only teasin' ya again, weez! .. )
Besides, if'n ya feelin' like it .. ya should feel mitey proud - mitey proud indeed !!

.. LOL ..

- Magpye

Proud to say, I visited the polls on Nov. 2nd. However, while my poor DH was inside standing in line, I was outside checkin' out the nice alyssum seed at the fire house window box! It pays to keep an eye on opportunity!

If I post a Pic of the plants that are bolting - can someone help w/the id?

OOOOOOOOHHHHHH! Dyson's got it bad!

You can post them over here if you want to, but you might try posting the pics in the ID forum, there are folks over there who are really good at IDing pics for people. That reminds me, I gotta get back over there and post my new pics. Thanks for the reminder.

Maniacal laughter can be heard drifting down the hallways.......

I've been considering some sort of plant tags I can attach to plants in public places so I can go back after they've bloomed out, but still know the color. I'm considering some green twist ties and ultra fine Sharpies to write on them. Any suggestions?

Carol, I started using ribbons when I mixed up all of my butterfly bushes. Works wonders. Tiny 1/8" ribbons come in most colours. I also use yellow on pineapple mint, orange on orange, red on apple mint and brown on chocolate.

Good idea, Ladyannne! My problem with seed snatching plants is that they are in public places, so my tagging has to be discrete...discretion has never been my strong point, I'm afraid.

LOL, ditto here. In public places, there is usually just a garden maintence person who will eventually trim up the plant with no regard to seed, so, we should take them, no? I play 'airplane' in the super market and sing in the echoing alcove of the mall, so my children rarely accompany me anyway. LOL!!

I've been known to sing the Star Spangled Banner in public restrooms where the bathroom fan has the right harmonics! We should shop together!

Exactly!! Our high school r & r band used to practice our acapella songs in the bathrooms. Equal is coming to help clean for Turkey Day, you come too, we could all head for the mall! Seed snatching all the way!

Oh gosh yes !! .. Bathrooms .. especially most 'public' restrooms .. (MUSEUMS, are the best!) ... lend some of the finest acoustics!! ...

When yall git ready to form the Clepto Choir .. be sure to give me a toot and a holler also ... O K ? ...

- Magpye

Mag, wouldn't it be grand??? Museums, hmmm? And we thought we were bad!! Heh, heh....going to take my daughter to the mall. Anyone want anything? Seeds?

Hey, we should write a Seed Snatcher's Anthem!

Oh say can you see, by the dawns early light, or a flashlight, these seeds need savein for propagation ?

Been gone all morning. . .what did I miss?. . .an anthem?

Oh say can you be seen, by the dawn's early light, or by flashlights white glare, seedpods bursting in air, gave proof of delight, of the kleptobotaniac that's been there. . .oh they say free seed anywhere never wavers . . .in the land of free seed and those klepto seed savers.

A little loose on the melody, but how's that for an anthem. . . . ;-)

Or the tune of 'Jingle Bells?' That blasted song has been in my head for almost 10 years! My parrot even knows how to whistle it! It's a great bed time song too! LOL By the way, great lyrics Jcangemi!! I am so mad! I can't find the salvia seeds I rescued while my son was trick or treating!!

Great, jcangemi!

Cab't type, alufng toohard

I made a bad mistake yesterday when I went to Lowe's and saw the half off table. The extra surprise was when I got all the plants home, I collected seeds from most of them. Yesssss.......

OH MY GOSH these threads are hysterical!

Too many people out and out used to steal from me. We're not talking seed or clippings like what the people do here but entire plants just like what cceamore mentioned in the first thread. Sad reality is that I, like everyone else here at DG; would gladly share seeds, cuttings, or divisions if asked. The plant liberating stopped once we installed wireless security mini cams. We were in total shock when we saw who one of the whole plant cleptos was. The whole plant clepto's husband asked us to please not share this with anyone. Ya right, whole plants on private property or from a forest preserve or botanical garden is crossing the line. Be careful out there folks as wireless digital surveillance equipment really came down in price. I'm not raining on anyone's parade but just be careful. We also were able to finally figure out which neighborhood kids took all of the Halloween candy even though the sign said "please take only one" on the bowl last year. Then we finally found out who was letting their dogs whiz on my iris down by the mailbox and which neighborhood kids were skinny dipping in our pond. I have to admit chit chatting with the kids about their indiscretions was priceless. They haven't been back and no more garbage to pick up by the pond.

Now, all of you gals and guys are missing major golden opportunities. It's called dumpster diving. Why stop at just mere seed snatching when you can get entire potted plants? Home Depot is one of the best sources but most nurseries toss plants that look unsaleable out! I will miss Franks Nursery and crafts as they had nice dumpster pickins. Home Depot carries a line of plants by Hampshire Farms that never, and I mean never, goes on sale. Hampshire Farms instructs their reps to throw out anything that they wouldn't give as a gift to their own Mother. I was talking with the gal there about when the plants were finally going to go on sale and she told me they never do and explained the details. I made a mental note of that. The first night I went there was when I realized the dumpsters were very big and very deep and not at all accessible like the dumpsters at Franks Nursery and Crafts. Take notice because I had to be inconvenienced by driving back home to get a folding step stool. Next tip for dumpster divers- after you get up and on the edge of the dumpster... pull your step stool up and into the dumpster with you so you can get back out if there isn't a lot of garbage in there to stack up to be able to get back out again. Naturally, it is best to do dumpster diving in pairs but I wasn't smart enough to bring a friend so I had a son of a gun getting out of that dumpster the first time I stupidly left the step stool on the outside. Learn from my mistakes, pull the step stool into the dumpster with you! No sense being publicly humiliated by getting stuck down in the bowels of one of those big dumpsters to be found by security or whomever. Try to coordinate your efforts for the night that the rep shows up but definitely before their garbage pick up which is usually the same day every week. On my first night of dumpster diving at Home Depot I was rewarded with up 3 or 4 one gallon pots of Enchinacea as well as a few odds and ends for friends. They are doing perfectly fine now that they've had a little TLC. My husband was aghast and shook his head in disbelief. On my second little dumpster shopping spree at Home Depot I picked up 3 or 4 one gallon pots of Chocolate Eupatorium plus more odds and ends for friends. These plants are doing extremely well! On my last shopping spree to HD, I got the mother load of hostas. Poor things were just going dormant and they were tossed senselessly in the trash and many of them had spilled out of their pots. Imagine that. Their loss my gain. Husband is still having heart failure over my dumpster diving misadventures. My only regrets are that I didn't learn what opportunities were out there earlier in the season this year. I get a lump in my throat just thinking about all that was tossed out before I got turned onto dumpster diving. Oh oh oh! Did I mention I got an entire 5 tiered plant stand on wheels that only needed a little bit of soldering! I had to go back and get that with a friend's pick up truck. Found that outside an industrial area rolled over by their dumpsters. It had my name on it. I also got several commercial grade lighting fixtures that will work just fine for seed germination this winter! Here's to dumpster diving!

Wow, Equilibrium. . .you take dd to a whole new level. . .some good face-saving pointers there. . .might be good to have cell phone on your person too, if you get stuck. . .LOL (but who ya gonna call to get you out of that messy situation??)

If you get caught in a dumpster, just tell them you thought you heard a baby crying... there's always an excuse! As for surveilence, if they want to bust me for harvesting seeds, they should just cuff me and get it over with! Wouldn't Wells Fargo bank look like real heros dragging an old fat lady off in cuffs! I could get on 60 Minutes!

.. LOL ..

Dumpster Divin' Diva's ... that's who ya can call !!! ... Check your local yeller pages!

LOL

- Magpye

Been laughing so hard, feel like I've been crying, almost wet my pants, getting old you know! 1st time I've read this forum! Just reminded me I have 10 baggies in my waist purse full of seeds from weeks ago (I have a lot of Senior moments). Went to the Monterey Aquarium, and I always carry a pen, post-its, and baggies and my little cross knife, would'nt go anywhere without it, not even a Ball, so while waiting in line outside, beautifull flowered paths, bent over getting seeds, this lady in line going the other way, (winding lines) wants to know if I know the name of that particular flower as she had just collected as well into her baggies, I thought I was going to die laughing, the guy behind me taps me on the shoulder and tells me the name!!!! she didn't know about Dave's, she was from the Midwest, I pleaded for her to join us in therapy!!!!! Hope she has, lol lol, can't stop laughing, DH keeps telling me I'm bringing the wrong size of poop baggies for our Golden, what was I thinking, God, here I go again, roflol!!!!! He can't take me anywhere, I smoke,tsk tsk, so WHEREVER We go, I have to go outside, around a corner, and guess what I do, get seeds, lol. Last night was my Son's Birthday party at Q-Zar, what was I supposed to do, my little scissors came out of my pocket as I walked the beautifully landscaped paths in Pleasanton, clip clip, clip clip, I brought home this really cool plant stem, it was higher than the rest, needed trimming, hope it sprouts cause with 4 screaming kids in my car I forgot it till I started reading this!!!! When I don't know the name of a plant, I draw a little pic with description, lol. We're not stealing, just replenishing the earths goods, right.
Thanks for the info on garbage bins, think I'll ask the florist at Safeway what she does when her flowers wilt?????
I always buy nice flower arrangements when We have company at Trader Joe's, and yes, I let them dry, pick the seeds, works well.
And oh yes, I wonder about those poppy seeds on bagels, I'm sick!!!
When I use fresh garlic, there's always a few too small cloves, put them in the ground for next year!!!! don't trow away veggies without saving seeds!!
Enough for now, I need to take a break and stop laughing!!!!