The Harvest
The Harvest
Insight & Ideas For The Precious Harvests You Have Grown—Processing, Preservation, Storage Of Home Grown Goodness, & Foraged Finds.
Saving Zinnia Flower Seeds
Adored by pollinators and people many gardeners love to grow zinnia flowers for their ease & long-lasting gorgeous coloured flowers too. They are a favourite staple for beauty & pollination function, as well as simplicity of saving seeds for yearly replanting. Buy once and have seeds indefinitely, bonus!
Tarragon Harvest, Preservation and Uses
Tarragon is an attractive perennial herb in the Asteraceae family with a pungent anise/licorice-like taste. It is a beautiful bushy garden addition and a great attractor for ladybugs, often found mating in their leaves. Harvest and preservation of this herbal is simple and easy.
Radish Seed Harvesting
Radish seeds will only form on bolted radish plants, ones that are NOT being harvested for their roots but left to flower and then seed. The flowers will form on the plant after the root is no longer viable and seed pods will form shortly after flowering.
Dill Seed Harvesting
WHEN TO HARVEST DILL SEEDS
In order for the dill plant to set seed, it must first flower. Allowing a few dill plants to flower supply’s any of us home growers enough seeds for storage, sharing and replanting. One flower can put out aprox. 100-200 seeds.
Red Raspberry Leaves: Harvest and Preservation
Red Raspberry (Rubus Idaeus) Is a wonderful perennial that beyond their delicious fruit berries is both food and healing medicinal. Learn when and how to harvest and use.