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RE: Steem-Powered Gardening: Got some cool seeds from @SageScrub!!
Oh hey @squishysquid! I do not know how I missed this post earlier... but I am sure glad I found it now!
Yay it is so nice to see you enjoying the seeds in your garden :) I'd love to see how the orach and dandelion work out for you!
And the mustard greens look so healthy and tasty!! Nice! Will you harvest the mustard seeds later for cooking?
I really appreciate you helping us to get the word out about Homesteaders Co-op! Its exactly what our vendors need right now while we are still rather unknown .... thank you!! I've given you an upvote from our @homesteaderscoop to say thanks!
Thanks so much!!
Yes, we are enjoying the greens and such so much right now! Getting a salad a day out of there. I havent even thought about saving mustard seed to use in cooking! I probably will, once the plants get bigger. Ill have to do a little research and see how people normally go about it.
The dandelions are popping up already and looking great! I am going to plant out some orach seeds today. I need to remove the sad looking kale from the bed and these can go in their place. Its just been too hot for kale lately.
I love the @homesteaderscoop! Im hoping later on to be able to sell seeds and such on there. ♥
Wow they are already popping up! Woo nice! I am so glad they are growing happily!
For mustard seeds once they start to bolt, just let them bolt and once the seed stalks and pods have dried up, clip them off. Sometimes they pods start to split so you know they're ready to harvest if that happens. Then put them in a bin or on a sheet and stomp on them and keep stomping and dancing until you've crushed them good. The seeds will be at the bottom, you can pull off the bulky stuff and toss it, then use a fan or the wind to winnow the chaff of the seeds.. I use a two bin method in front of my fan. You can see an example as I winnow peas in the video at the bottom of this post: https://steemit.com/homesteading/@sagescrub/anouas1j
Hope it helps you! Of course theres tons of other info online, but this is the easiest way I found, and very enjoyable and relaxing to stomp and winnow :)
Oh wow, thanks! Now I know what to do! Ill have to try it for sure. I love my mustard and it would be so cool to make my own!
I collected wild mustard seeds here for the first time last year and threshing and winnowing was fun and I got a lot of seed from just a few bushy plants :) Good luck!