#radishseed

Schifferstadt Long Black Radish seed and Landis Winter Lettuce seed, cleaned today at Roughwood with @palmermarinelli. And there's that heart potato. #heartpotato #schifferstadtradish #radishseed #raphanussativus #landiswinterlettuce #lactucasativa #lettuceseed #roughwoodseedcollection #seedsaving

Cleaning radish seed was relatively easy today. Here's how: we chose the best roots of our harvest last year in Kutztown and over-wintered these Schifferstadt Long Black Radishes at Roughwood Seed Collection. They bolted, flowered, and set seed pods this spring, which we harvested when they were brown and dry. I hung the pants upside down in the greenhouse for a few weeks where they got crispy and ripe. Today, @palmermarinelli and I took the pods off the plants and stomped on them to remove the seeds. They shattered! Very little shrink wrapping around the seeds as they sometimes do. We sifted with a little hand threshing, and then put through this seed cleaning aspirator, which is powered by a shop vac that separates heavy seed from light chaff. Designed by @realseedcompany and built by @originaltriplechip - it is a breath saver, so to speak. #roughwoodseedcollection #schifferstadtradish #raphanussativus #heirloomradish #radishseedpods #radishseed #seedsaving #threshing #winnowing #breathsaver #lifesaver (at Devon, Pennsylvania)

Take your friends to work day! Here Mendal and Nova are cleaning Madras Podding Radish seed pods, which you can eat when green and tender. To me, they taste like radish-flavored pea pods, and are great fresh or pickled. #radishpods #madraspoddingradish #radishseed #takeyourfriendtoworkday #roughwoodseedcollection #seedsaving #seedkeeping #raphanussativus