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
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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!

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Tarragon Harvest, Preservation and Uses
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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.

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Radish Seed Harvesting
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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.

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Dill Seed Harvesting
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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.

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