Hide the bags in your car and keep a couple in your sock to lecture law enforcement on the importance of native plants, it is a moment they'll remember and tell their friends about.
Used to work Fire/EMS and, can confirm, this would be a GREAT way to start a “conservation conversation” with Law Enforcement. If they start kneeling on your neck, then you know it’s going swimmingly. #helpfultips
I cut junkmail envelopes in half and keep seeds in there. They're free and the paper makes sure moisture can escape if case they aren't all the way dry. Just gotta fold the open end over and write a label on the back. Sometimes you even get a little window so you can see what the seeds look like. If the seeds or heads are too big, liquor store bottle bags are just perfect too!
Couldn't have come at a better time! There's a space that was reserved as a wildlife area near my work that's now getting bulldozed and developed. It's currently in bloom so time to grab all the seeds I can.
Is there someone who would get permission to dig up the plants and transplant them onto better protected property (assuming there aren't jumping worms/invasives)? I hope you're able to grab seeds.
I’m ready to see a new “Take the seeds, and put’em ina bag!” Sticker. Or a “PLANT THEM DENSE!” one, I’d buy both! Great video, please keep them coming!
Pud'em in a bag. Looking forward to gathering acorns to plant next year after I freeze them. Mostly burr oak and scarlet. I like the big caps on the acorns. Trying to make better habitat for bear and deer.
A native plant nursery opened up this year on the East side of Cleveland, Ohio. And in late winter The Cleveland Seed Swap is held where there are native plant seeds to be had.
I have been collecting native wildflower seeds from my land to make “flower bombs” to throw into ditches on my way to town. I dream of a drive to work that is lousy with native blooms.
Same for the Netherlands. Solidago gigantea is an even more common invasive. I have a little goldenrod patch in my garden, insects love it. I do remove the seed heads before the seeds are ripe though.
"Take those seeds and put them in a bag, say that with me..." Sidenote: Always keep in mind that seeds and plant material mixed in will mold if you keep them in a sealed bag for prolonged time if they are not completely dry
No doubt, but a paper lunch bag wicks the moisture and if obvious moisture throw a paper towel in there. Plastic even if top open can mold. Your sidenote is key
*_Top Five Seed Collecting Bags..._* 5. Mariano's Bag 4. Pete's Bag 3. Tony's Bag 2. Jewel's Bag And da number one baig for collectin' seeds (but you'll have to go diggin' deep inta your baig baig for one of dees) is da... *_Dominick's Bag_* _RIP Dominick's_
After watching your video about that guy's prarie backyard yesterday, I took my dog for a walk to a place I know with a power line running through the forrest and came home with a pocket full of goldenrod, aster, and evening primrose. The first two are pretty common around here in ditches and stuff. Got some funny looks from my wife though 😅
I love this video, people need not to be afraid to overcomplicate the idea of collecting native seeds. Take 10% of what seeds/seed pods you find and go and just, try to do some good with them. Eventually some are gonna sprout and grow into mature healthy plants and benefit your local ecology!
Thank you so much for the lesson. Fucking awesome. Just collected some last night. Waiting for A. gerardii to go to seed. The good thing about collecting seed of R. pinnata is that is smells amazing when you crush the seedheads.
You know what, up here in Michigan you take the paper bag from whatever you got at the dispensary. That's a perfect bag for collecting seeds! Ask me if I know from experience.
I literally went to the local dispensary this morning on my bike and had to detour on my way home. There was a monarch butterfly garden with a bunch of dead flower heads. "I should grab a bunch of this but l don't have my bags! What should l...? 💡😃💡" Then l come home and see this comment 🤣
Been 'puttin' em inna bag' since 2001 doing volunteer work with The Nature Conservancy in Minnesota. All seeds collected get redistributed on site in places needing help (previously choked with buckthorn and, yes, even sumac). Super dry here this year though so the seed crop is very poor. I'm all for collecting seed and replanting where natives have been lost for whatever reason. Please don't dig wild plants though unless transplanting from one garden to another. Tony's gone on that that rant before, and he's right!
Would love a video about seed germination - I've run into some roadblocks with finding resources for certain species. Berry maceration, liquid smoke, different scarification and stratification schedules--it's a mess. Where do you look to find resources on how to successfully germinate your native seeds?
Unfortunately there's no internet resource for that one. Gotta find your local experienced grower and ask them. Somebody should compile a database with anecdotes and written testimonials.
It's not an informational website, but Prairie Moon Nursery has a lot of good information. They provide general information, range maps, and germination instructions for the plants that they sell. At the very least it's worth a look if you can't find that information elsewhere.
I live in St. Louis City and I HATE grass and resent having to maintain it. I’ve always joked that my overgrown yard is “prairie revival”. I’ve managed to mostly kill the lawn in my backyard, but I’ve begrudgingly kept my tiny front lawn which I “mow” with a weed whacker just often enough to not get ticketed by the city. I want to start collecting seeds like these to actually turn my yard into a prairie revival zone. And finally kill off the rest of my lawn.
Dehiscense is one of my favourite words in botany. I find the mechanisms of dehiscence fascinating, especially with explosive dehiscing. Nature is amazing.
We have got to get you over to Chicago Public Schools Waters Elementary School in Lincoln Square. Massive native gardens surround it and are part of a flourishing ecology program. Absolutely beautiful and well established.
Went out today and collected a bunch of evening primrose seeds and put em in a bag, in a couple weeks I'm going back to get aster and goldenrod! At least two different Solidagos.
Heard about this channel from someone in R/whatidthisplant. They described your personality well but not well enough. I enjoyed the everloving f**k out of this. Keep loving what you love and sharing it.
There is some native Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium) growing along the side of the road nearby. I am thinking of waiting until the plants go completely dormant this winter, then taking a shovel and gently digging a few of them for my garden. I checked yesterday and saw a few seed heads developing so I'll probably go back in few weeks to check on those. Either way, I hope to establish this lovely plant in my garden to give the critters another choice on the menu.
definitely take seeds over digging! I've committed that sin before and I still feel bad for it. Now I'm doing all sorts of research to figure out how to germinate the seeds I've collected this year and its a little fulfilling all on its own to research and learn about the specific plants. Plus one thing I've got I can't find any information on germinating so who knows, maybe I'll be the first to know something
@@LichenDragon There are probably 50 plants at this site. I would probably dig 3. And they are on the roadside, not in a habitat area which is the only reason I would even consider it.
I'd love to see a follow up with goldenrod deadheads. The last place we lived I had good luck transplanting some ditch 'rod but I've tried several times over the 10 years at our current place with seeds but have been thoroughly unsuccessful. (You could also run a sideline of regional culinary herbs and plants....)
*Also - with your tallgrass fetish you should make sure someday to come see the Kansas prairies like Maxwell and the National Preserve. Holler and we'll shoot you a jar of sandhill plum jelly.
I've been amazed at how thistle heads will mature despite being cut/harvested well-before their time. Certainly the non-native, invasive species seem capable of maturing to fruit that way.
Tony have you checked out Chiwaukee Prairie yet? It's a dune and swale topography prairie, lots of plants Swink and Wilhelm rated 9's and 10's. It's amazing this time of year. Fringed gentian, Grass of Parnassas, etc. Sorry for common names. just woke up.
I do this all the time, I call it 'articact retrieval'. I'm currently trying to find some _cirsium discolor_ seeds. My neighbors get snotty with me about my milkeeed because I open all the seed pods on windy days. If I have to dig up all the burning bush starts from my yard due to their 'landscaping', they can deal with my asclepias.
my graj rafters hold a variety of brown paper shopping bags with seeds dryiing and waiting for spring ... mostly bergamot, coreopsis, blanket flower, tansy, and some sweet william ... mulleins abound here so dont need much help, multi stalked up to 7 feet tall, they remain a stalk for a couple years after they bloom and seed as the birds eat em
I grabbed some mariposa lily seeds and some penstemon seeds yesterday. Will they actually germinate in my garden where I planted them? Who knows, but at least there's a chance!
Excellent I’d love to see some more seed collecting videos and maybe some stuff on how to get them growing. I’m planning on getting a bunch of seeds from around me this year to grow and put out in areas where I’m pulling out invasives mostly woodland stuff but thinking I might pop some stuff in the power line cut near me as well since right now it looks to be mostly full of invasive grasses, teasel, bird foot trefoil and and a few others I’m sure. I’d love to see more of our prairie savanna and meadow natives in there instead of the crap taking over from Asia and Europe even though many of them are also beautiful
I want to make some origami seed packets so I can collect the seeds. Then write the species, location and date on the packet. Much love from the Cape Flats Sand Fynbos region.
Working on a seed bank for Lake County, California, to provide seed for local ecological restoration projects. If more people focused on seed collections for their counties, maybe we could get away from generic or not locally native "meadow in a can" kinda bullshit.
Have you been up to Northern MN yet? I havent seen much of you traipsing through the North Woods. The North Shore is a highly fragile ecosystem with some real bangers
Very fine information to add to that wild thought garden naturalizing my mind and slowly expressing itself in my backyard. Enlightenment from one who is enlightened - may his messaging like pollen be widely dispersed.
Bring a little clipper or scissors for the shallow rooted and hard to pluck bastards. Have unfortunately pulled some species like echinacea, penstemon, allium etc straight outta the ground roots and all. No fuckin bueno. Chasing rue and gentian today in the prairie potholes of SouthDakota. Better believe I’m bagged up to the goddamn gills
With all the concern with water here in southern california, do you think you could come and do a similar video here? LA is soon to outlaw ornamental grass lawns, i hear.
Hide the bags in your car and keep a couple in your sock to lecture law enforcement on the importance of native plants, it is a moment they'll remember and tell their friends about.
Used to work Fire/EMS and, can confirm, this would be a GREAT way to start a “conservation conversation” with Law Enforcement. If they start kneeling on your neck, then you know it’s going swimmingly. #helpfultips
lol
I cut junkmail envelopes in half and keep seeds in there. They're free and the paper makes sure moisture can escape if case they aren't all the way dry. Just gotta fold the open end over and write a label on the back. Sometimes you even get a little window so you can see what the seeds look like. If the seeds or heads are too big, liquor store bottle bags are just perfect too!
Lord knows we all get enough junk mail, great way to reuse what's usually just thrown away 👍
Great idea!
I do that and parking ticket envelopes work too.
💗
Recycling the dystopian low grade misery, into small rebellions against apathy. Great idea!
Put ‘em in a bag!
Don't forget about that put em on your pants 🤪 4:02
Couldn't have come at a better time! There's a space that was reserved as a wildlife area near my work that's now getting bulldozed and developed. It's currently in bloom so time to grab all the seeds I can.
Bastahds. They can go fk themselves. Put 'em in a bahhg.
I'm so sorry. Good for you!
Thanks for taking those seeds and putting them in a bag at least
Is there someone who would get permission to dig up the plants and transplant them onto better protected property (assuming there aren't jumping worms/invasives)? I hope you're able to grab seeds.
humans have a big appetite, eat everything. right before your eyes the planet is disappearing.
The prairie series has been a bop, man. Keep em' comin!
The pep talk to the bee! 😂
I'm taking all these good seeds of wisdom, and stuffing them in my heart. Good stuff
Pud em in a bag
And then you better put your heart in a bag, if I understood the video correctly 😂
Nahhh . I'm gonna keep my heart in my treasure chest. See what happens. This channel sure duz help it grow tho🌱❤️
I’m ready to see a new “Take the seeds, and put’em ina bag!” Sticker. Or a “PLANT THEM DENSE!” one, I’d buy both! Great video, please keep them coming!
It's pronounced bahhhhg
Pud'em in a bag. Looking forward to gathering acorns to plant next year after I freeze them. Mostly burr oak and scarlet. I like the big caps on the acorns. Trying to make better habitat for bear and deer.
A native plant nursery opened up this year on the East side of Cleveland, Ohio. And in late winter The Cleveland Seed Swap is held where there are native plant seeds to be had.
I have been collecting native wildflower seeds from my land to make “flower bombs” to throw into ditches on my way to town. I dream of a drive to work that is lousy with native blooms.
Loving the prairie series you got going 👍 Solidago canadensis is horribly invasive here in Norway, but nice to see it in its native environment!
It's awful here in Sweden as well!
the norse used to invade and now...the turn tables.
Same for the Netherlands. Solidago gigantea is an even more common invasive.
I have a little goldenrod patch in my garden, insects love it. I do remove the seed heads before the seeds are ripe though.
"Take those seeds and put them in a bag, say that with me..."
Sidenote: Always keep in mind that seeds and plant material mixed in will mold if you keep them in a sealed bag for prolonged time if they are not completely dry
No doubt, but a paper lunch bag wicks the moisture and if obvious moisture throw a paper towel in there. Plastic even if top open can mold. Your sidenote is key
Well gosh darn, uploaded 1 min ago. Im always up for throwing native seeds all over the joint when I go on a " mental health " walk.
*_Top Five Seed Collecting Bags..._*
5. Mariano's Bag
4. Pete's Bag
3. Tony's Bag
2. Jewel's Bag
And da number one baig for collectin' seeds (but you'll have to go diggin' deep inta your baig baig for one of dees) is da...
*_Dominick's Bag_*
_RIP Dominick's_
I live near the Mackinaw river in central IL, love these flowers. Going for a walk through the prairie makes my brain less angry :)
This is exactly what I was going to lookup today. Could not have been better timed
My new favorite saying, “put ‘em in a baag!”
I see new merchandise coming in the future… “Put ‘em in a Bag”
Seed collection- library-I use glass vials (20 mL scintillation vials) with rice at the bottom as a desiccant. Works so far….
Do it right... Getcherself a baig.
After watching your video about that guy's prarie backyard yesterday, I took my dog for a walk to a place I know with a power line running through the forrest and came home with a pocket full of goldenrod, aster, and evening primrose. The first two are pretty common around here in ditches and stuff. Got some funny looks from my wife though 😅
I need a shirt that says "Put it in a Bag!"🤣
Thanks Tony for the botanical drinking game that you have patented* without knowing.
I love this video, people need not to be afraid to overcomplicate the idea of collecting native seeds. Take 10% of what seeds/seed pods you find and go and just, try to do some good with them. Eventually some are gonna sprout and grow into mature healthy plants and benefit your local ecology!
Lovely prairie, don t forget it " put the seed in the bag"😀
The "do you need a bag?" song, yes I do if it's full of good SEEDS!
Thank you so much for the lesson. Fucking awesome. Just collected some last night. Waiting for A. gerardii to go to seed. The good thing about collecting seed of R. pinnata is that is smells amazing when you crush the seedheads.
Bro you deadass got convinced me to to take courses and to buy a stack of books
You know what, up here in Michigan you take the paper bag from whatever you got at the dispensary. That's a perfect bag for collecting seeds! Ask me if I know from experience.
I literally went to the local dispensary this morning on my bike and had to detour on my way home. There was a monarch butterfly garden with a bunch of dead flower heads. "I should grab a bunch of this but l don't have my bags! What should l...? 💡😃💡" Then l come home and see this comment 🤣
@@patrickstonecrusher YOOOOOOOO LFG!!!!!!!!!!! Great minds think alike, etc etc.
Been 'puttin' em inna bag' since 2001 doing volunteer work with The Nature Conservancy in Minnesota. All seeds collected get redistributed on site in places needing help (previously choked with buckthorn and, yes, even sumac). Super dry here this year though so the seed crop is very poor.
I'm all for collecting seed and replanting where natives have been lost for whatever reason. Please don't dig wild plants though unless transplanting from one garden to another. Tony's gone on that that rant before, and he's right!
Wow - you could have your own mini prairie in your yard!
Would love a video about seed germination - I've run into some roadblocks with finding resources for certain species. Berry maceration, liquid smoke, different scarification and stratification schedules--it's a mess. Where do you look to find resources on how to successfully germinate your native seeds?
Unfortunately there's no internet resource for that one. Gotta find your local experienced grower and ask them. Somebody should compile a database with anecdotes and written testimonials.
It's not an informational website, but Prairie Moon Nursery has a lot of good information. They provide general information, range maps, and germination instructions for the plants that they sell. At the very least it's worth a look if you can't find that information elsewhere.
Tony: "You take the seeds, and you put 'em ina bag!"
Me: *furiously writing this down* "Seeds -> bag. Got it!"
I live in St. Louis City and I HATE grass and resent having to maintain it. I’ve always joked that my overgrown yard is “prairie revival”. I’ve managed to mostly kill the lawn in my backyard, but I’ve begrudgingly kept my tiny front lawn which I “mow” with a weed whacker just often enough to not get ticketed by the city. I want to start collecting seeds like these to actually turn my yard into a prairie revival zone. And finally kill off the rest of my lawn.
Guess I'm bringin' a bahg to the woods today
Dehiscense is one of my favourite words in botany. I find the mechanisms of dehiscence fascinating, especially with explosive dehiscing. Nature is amazing.
Going to have to try something with the Aussie natives here but need to do some research first
Fellow Aussie here!I went on D and H seed harvest
Co and got some acacia seeds and just... PUT EM IN A BAG... and sprinkled in good locations.
Thanks Tony! Made this prairie boy smile! TAKE THOSE SEEDS N STICKEM IN A BAG!
We have got to get you over to Chicago Public Schools Waters Elementary School in Lincoln Square. Massive native gardens surround it and are part of a flourishing ecology program. Absolutely beautiful and well established.
PUT IT IN A BAAAG!
PHUT M N AH BHEG
I play this game where I don't label the seeds and try to remember what they are much later on.
Isn't it fun? Done that myself 😄
🫵🎼🎶🎵🎤take dem seeds n put em in a bag! 🎶🎶🎵
Always looking for what to do in the Midwest. Thanks!
I went out yesterday and I'm going out again today... and the bees were busy pollinating while I was busy. Oh yeah, pots...
Got in a huge argument with my mother about golden rod. Good thing I had your video to show her LOL
Went out today and collected a bunch of evening primrose seeds and put em in a bag, in a couple weeks I'm going back to get aster and goldenrod! At least two different Solidagos.
I can't help but feel the urge to put things in bags.
Heard about this channel from someone in
R/whatidthisplant. They described your personality well but not well enough.
I enjoyed the everloving f**k out of this. Keep loving what you love and sharing it.
ha ha ha, love you bro. Make me laugh too much =) Greetings from Sussex!
"Got all that pollen on his legs, right next to his big fat ass"
please enlighten us kids with a native herbiculture of midwest understory/forest floor plants!!!
Dug up many Spring Beauties from land to be razed. They grew beautifully.
Love your vids!!!❤
I sense a pattern in this video. I think it's suggesting to put seeds in bags. Anyone else?
The seed pods on the baptisia alba are cool! They sound cool bangin' together.
There is some native Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium) growing along the side of the road nearby. I am thinking of waiting until the plants go completely dormant this winter, then taking a shovel and gently digging a few of them for my garden. I checked yesterday and saw a few seed heads developing so I'll probably go back in few weeks to check on those. Either way, I hope to establish this lovely plant in my garden to give the critters another choice on the menu.
definitely take seeds over digging! I've committed that sin before and I still feel bad for it. Now I'm doing all sorts of research to figure out how to germinate the seeds I've collected this year and its a little fulfilling all on its own to research and learn about the specific plants. Plus one thing I've got I can't find any information on germinating so who knows, maybe I'll be the first to know something
Don't dig up plants. Get some seeds, put them in a.... I forgot what but you get what I'm saying!
@@LichenDragon There are probably 50 plants at this site. I would probably dig 3. And they are on the roadside, not in a habitat area which is the only reason I would even consider it.
Put ‘em in a bag 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This has a similar energy to Adam Ragusea’s “Shocking Secret” videos and I’m here for it.
I'd love to see a follow up with goldenrod deadheads. The last place we lived I had good luck transplanting some ditch 'rod but I've tried several times over the 10 years at our current place with seeds but have been thoroughly unsuccessful. (You could also run a sideline of regional culinary herbs and plants....)
*Also - with your tallgrass fetish you should make sure someday to come see the Kansas prairies like Maxwell and the National Preserve. Holler and we'll shoot you a jar of sandhill plum jelly.
Finally, a principle in biology I can actually follow: "Put 'em in a bag".
I've been amazed at how thistle heads will mature despite being cut/harvested well-before their time. Certainly the non-native, invasive species seem capable of maturing to fruit that way.
I just brought some big blue stem home for the front yard.
LOL all day long I’m gonna be putting everything, IN A BAG!
Message received ✅
Tony have you checked out Chiwaukee Prairie yet? It's a dune and swale topography prairie, lots of plants Swink and Wilhelm rated 9's and 10's. It's amazing this time of year. Fringed gentian, Grass of Parnassas, etc. Sorry for common names. just woke up.
I do this all the time, I call it 'articact retrieval'. I'm currently trying to find some _cirsium discolor_ seeds. My neighbors get snotty with me about my milkeeed because I open all the seed pods on windy days. If I have to dig up all the burning bush starts from my yard due to their 'landscaping', they can deal with my asclepias.
Rattlesnake master: a plant so nice you told us to put da seeds in a bag twice
my graj rafters hold a variety of brown paper shopping bags with seeds dryiing and waiting for spring ... mostly bergamot, coreopsis, blanket flower, tansy, and some sweet william ... mulleins abound here so dont need much help, multi stalked up to 7 feet tall, they remain a stalk for a couple years after they bloom and seed as the birds eat em
This is great fun!
now kids you behave
the bag-man will come for you
Yay! the little sprouts shout in unison
I grabbed some mariposa lily seeds and some penstemon seeds yesterday. Will they actually germinate in my garden where I planted them? Who knows, but at least there's a chance!
I’m about to get a house. Can’t wait to fill my yard with native plant “landscape beds” until there’s no shitty lawn left!
Make seed bombs. Find vacant lots in your 'hood and town. Toss and enjoy!
PUT EM INNA BAG!
❤
Excellent I’d love to see some more seed collecting videos and maybe some stuff on how to get them growing. I’m planning on getting a bunch of seeds from around me this year to grow and put out in areas where I’m pulling out invasives mostly woodland stuff but thinking I might pop some stuff in the power line cut near me as well since right now it looks to be mostly full of invasive grasses, teasel, bird foot trefoil and and a few others I’m sure. I’d love to see more of our prairie savanna and meadow natives in there instead of the crap taking over from Asia and Europe even though many of them are also beautiful
Take all dem seeds and put 'em in a bag! put that on a shirt like "Kill your lawn" because that's your next great slogan XD
Broham. I’d no shot buy a cloth canvass bag with pockets in it from you that says “Put the seeds in the bag”.
Could be a good idea for store option.
I want to make some origami seed packets so I can collect the seeds. Then write the species, location and date on the packet. Much love from the Cape Flats Sand Fynbos region.
Ah seed time :) I’ve been collecting tobacco seeds for a month or so now. Going to mix them into the mini prairie at the nature park.
#Put Inna Bag...much love from Indian River County
When they are ready I'm a gonna put'em in a baag!
We need put em in a bag merch
Working on a seed bank for Lake County, California, to provide seed for local ecological restoration projects. If more people focused on seed collections for their counties, maybe we could get away from generic or not locally native "meadow in a can" kinda bullshit.
I use cheap dollar store no lick sealing mailing envelopes. They're easy to write on; description/date collected, etc..
YES NICE
Crown royal bag
new shirt
"You know what to do"
"Put it in the BAAG"
GEEZE! I need'a get more baygs!
When you carve your pumpkin, take those seeds and .... ( he says it better than I do )
I just threw some goo & all in my ditch. Had the most interesting things growing next year.
"Put em' in a bag".
Have you been up to Northern MN yet? I havent seen much of you traipsing through the North Woods. The North Shore is a highly fragile ecosystem with some real bangers
Very fine information to add to that wild thought garden naturalizing my mind and slowly expressing itself in my backyard. Enlightenment from one who is enlightened - may his messaging like pollen be widely dispersed.
Put em in a bag
Plant em dense
Start collecting and spreading from the resulting native gardens
Tony, most bees that are working flowers are females. I'm going to dehiss my echinacea today!
Maybe it was a they/them
Take my subscription and put it in a bag.
Don't forget to label da bag!!!
You need to take a trip to isle royale i need to learn all about the ecology of the island
Bring a little clipper or scissors for the shallow rooted and hard to pluck bastards. Have unfortunately pulled some species like echinacea, penstemon, allium etc straight outta the ground roots and all. No fuckin bueno. Chasing rue and gentian today in the prairie potholes of SouthDakota. Better believe I’m bagged up to the goddamn gills
With all the concern with water here in southern california, do you think you could come and do a similar video here? LA is soon to outlaw ornamental grass lawns, i hear.
I think I almost got it but unsure about one part.
So you take the seeds.
But then what?