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You should not remove soil while the seed pods are present.
Children love to see this happen and look for ripe seed pods in early fall.
The seed pods' long journey back through time had begun.
What about those big seed pods we've seen floating down the river?
When is the proper time to remove the seed pods?
There: a shape like a huge seed pod split open from inside.
Inside each fat seed pod there will be one to three seeds.
The seed pods are a nuisance, too, to pick up and cut off.
They spin the leaves of their host together or live inside the seed pod.
Here and there in it they spotted more of the seed pods.
Wörterbuch der Botanik