Lettuce seed harvest – shaking method – Going to Seed with Dan Brisebois

We�re going to shake, shake, shake those lettuce seeds out!

And wiggle our waggles away.

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We used to mostly pull lettuce plants full of seed and and spread them out on tarps. We�d then let them keep maturing before seed extraction. This is how we manage a lot of seed crops.

But lately our lettuce seed yields haven�t been great with this technique. Not sure if it�s birds eating the seed before we can thresh it, or too much wind, or something else. But I haven�t been happy.

So this year, we�re shaking lettuce seed head�s into bins.

And so far, we�re quite happy.