After the rhubarb has flowered, it goes to seed. If you have left one or two rhubarb to get this far, then you an reap the benefits of the seeds to plant another year. This article provides a pictorial demonstration of collecting the seeds.
Wait for the seeds and rhubarb branch to dry out. Pick a nice looking branch filled with seeds from the rhubarb plant. Pick a few if you want but you will get a lot of seeds from one branch even. You can use snips if wanted but the brittle branch will be easy enough to snap off by hand.
Put the seeds down somewhere safe while you assemble your container. Remove your gardening gloves at this stage, if you are wearing any.
Place the container down and start shaking and pulling off the seeds into the container.
Finish up. At the end, you will have a nice amount of seeds and an empty branch for adding to the mulching pile.
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