Harvesting the poppy seeds

Feb 4th: A good morning of schooling with a cool drizzly day outside. After lunch we went to Victoria Park, a 5 minute walk away, for Homeschoolers' Sports. We meet once a week and 19 children aged 4 to 11 play sports and do athletics together. I co-ordinate it with another mum. We've taken to timing the children running 60m and 400m on the velodrome track and today we did some ball skills too. After this the boys helped me do some gardening. A huge flax plant had grown stems over 8 feet long with seed pods on the end, and the weight of them had made the stems droop right across the pavement so we wanted to cut them back. We then discovered all our poppy flowers had finished flowering and made these beautiful seed heads. We picked some and sprinkled hundreds of seeds out of each. We're going to put some of these down the side of the house where not much else grows. Unless we find out they are the "wrong type of poppy" by the boys in blue, that is!