One of the easiest seed to save is cress /karse (Lepidium sativum). You can grow a lot of seed in a small space, it dries well on the plants and is easy to process, rubbing the seed pods between your fingers in a bowl and then blowing the chaff away outside. I sprout the seed inside during winter and also sow it outside in spring to harvest the young plants for salads and lunch. leaving a few to grow big for seed.
This is what ALL window sills in the home of a seed saver look like in October :) Join KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) if you’d like to share this harvest…https://kvann.no/bli-med
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I’ve found the easiest way to clean quinoa and seed of other Chenopods is using water…the seed sinks and the chaff floats…after separating, the seed is dried…
Quinoa seed froths up because of the saponins in the seed…Cleaned seed
I used the same method with Chenopodium album / Fat hen / meldestokk seed (on the left)…the seed doesn’t froth much, so not such high content of saponins..
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
