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.

Autumn Harvest

We set up our hoop house the other day, but left all the plants inside of it until this weekend, when we planned to go through and cut them back and see what we could find in there.  Well we found quite a lot of stuff, a bunch of green tomatoes, Serrano peppers, bell peppers, Anaheim peppers, and Thai hot peppers, and outside of the hoop house we found a couple good sized eggplants, leeks, and some more cucumbers.  Here is a picture of everything we picked in the last couple days.

You can see all the green tomatoes that we gathered from our tomato jungle on the left, in the middle are cucumbers that are covered by the leeks, front right are a ton of Serrano and Thai hot peppers, and in the back right are our eggplants.  Also in this picture are our pineapple, aloe, and some tomato sprouts.