One of the best feelings in the world is the satisfaction and awe that comes with winnowing seeds. You take a bucket of seeds dirty with so much chaff and dust that you can barely see the seeds. You pour that mixture into the wind. The wind blows away all the light dusty bits and … More Seed winnowing setup ?????
This is the Millet Wet Seed Separator. We mainly use this to crush tomatoes and peppers to extract their seeds. Here were using it for peppers. We feed the peppers into the hopper. (Make sure not to cut through the center of the fruit where the seeds are.) The Millet crushes the fruit up and … More Crushing peppers for seed
There’s a special smell that comes with rotting cucumbers. When you save cucumbers for seed, you let them get big and yellow. And you might stack them in a bin for a few weeks to let them get even more yellow and mature. (And maybe because you forgot to deal with them on time.) The … More That special rotting cucumber smell
The first episode of The Seed Growers Podcast episode 1 wraps up with Adrianna and Joelene of Empowered Flowers discussing how they grow 120 of cucumbers seed on a quarter acre Here’s a summary of the steps: Grow like a market crop Harvest fruit when they are very mature Pile fruit into a mountain Extract … More How to save 120lbs of cucumber seed
Here’s a Cucurbit cheat sheet for #seedsavingformarketgrowers These are the 6 most common cucurbit species in market gardens. If you grow two crops of the same species. They will cross pollinate together. For better or worse. (In the case of Squash – mostly for the worst.) But if you grow two cucurbits of different species … More Cucurbit Cheat Sheet
Do you have any giant cucumbers in your fields? If you answered yes, go on out to the field and cut one open. Does it have some mature cucumber seed in there? If not, you can leave other big fruit to keep maturing before trying again. The seeds will keep maturing too. You can do … More Any giant cucumbers in your fields?