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Dave Liquorice[_2_] · 28-08-2013, 12:23 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:44:23 +0100 (BST), wrote:

Collecting wild flower seed from the wild is quite legal
providing
you have the landowners permission or it is on common land.
It is recommended that when collecting seed, not more than 20%
of the crop is taken.

How do you know, as an individual, when 20% of the "the crop" has
been taken? When you have taken 1:5 seed heads? But how do you
know
that some one else hasn't already taken 1:5 seed heads? Or that
another person won't be along later to take another 1:5...

That's just a rule created by people who like to order other people
around.

And created by people who haven't thought it through properly.

I am extremely old-fashioned, and still believe that using one's
intelligence is a desirable objective.

That assumes people have intelligence or knowledge which these days
is not often the case. It is very much "uncool" to know things and to
think.

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Cheers
Dave.