Harvest Time (Small Scale)

We have been drying out some of our onion flowers in some paper bags so we could harvest the seeds.  Today I sat down and sorted through the detritus and picked out the seeds.  Here are a few pictures of the progression of flower to seed:

Onion flower still growing.

Dried Onion Flower after a month in a paper bag.

A Pile of seeds from about 6 flowers.

We plan to plant most of the seeds this fall in hopes of a big onion harvest in the spring.  We’ll see how it goes.  We also plan to let our lettuce, cilantro, carrots, leeks, basil, rosemary, dill, parsley, and sage go to seed, as well as collecting seed from the rest of our plants.