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Today we’re going to harvest this aster seed. I planted a package daisies, and I got
a whole row of daisies and one aster plant. The asters are in the same family as the daisy,
but it should not have been in the daisy package. And now this plant has been growing for three
years, and it’s made all these babies around it. It is a perennial. So to harvest the
seed, what I do is I cut off the stalk with the seeds on it after the seeds are fully
dry. I put it in a clean container - this one has a few other seeds. So I’m going
to make sure that it’s clean and there are no seeds in there. And I’ll put it in there
to dry. And ever couple of days I’ll turn it and make sure it’s drying evenly- especially
if the bowl was full. And then when the stems and leaves are totally dry, the seed will
be totally dry, and I’ll take the seed out and store it.