a few months ago we harvested our kale seeds pods after they dried on their stems. today, i spent hours processing the seeds for planting later this year. it was fun (i love doing detailed work with my hands!), but it sure took a while!
kale seed pods stored in a paper bag to dry
our seed pods were stored in a paper bag and i went through the stems one at a time, breaking open each seed pod and pushing and/or scraping the seeds out into a bowl with the broken off pod pieces.
broken off and emptied seed pods after processing
kale seeds, freed from their pods!
that was it, really. a simple process but one that takes time and energy. we filled about 1/4 or 1/3 of a sandwich-sized ziploc bag with seeds, plenty for planting this year and the next!
next year’s kale crop inside!
we put the spent stems and the still-attached pods into a compost area; perhaps we’ll use them for mulching in the near future!
emptied kale stems and pods
and since i found the opened pods to be beautiful, i decided to save them, though i’m not really sure what i’ll do with them yet! i’m thinking a craft of some kind, but who knows?!
empty pods–a future craft?!
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