the radish trees come full circle

Let me tell you a story about the radishes that went to seed.

They turned into tall and pretty radish trees.

Then they turned into a mess.

 

I chopped them all down. And spent the next three days taking the 5 or 6 seeds out of each pod. The barrow of pods never got any smaller. There must be a better way.

We took all the pods off the plants.

We put the pods into the cooler. I got in with my new blue shoes and started to smoosh the pods hoping to release the seeds. A radish pod poked through my shoe and hurt my toe.

Nigel got his bare feet in the cooler and carried on where I left off.

We put the smooshed pods though the colander. Hoping to end up with seeds on the other end.

We ended up with more than we bargained for.

Blow Dryer to the rescue!

And we have seeds.

Lots of radish seeds.

the pods

radish pods I mentioned earlier that we have been letting our radishes go to seed. It has been so interesting to me.
They are such little plants and yet they have shot up 4 times their original size. And they have these dainty little pink blossoms waving in the wind up the top. I have been watching them daily wondering what they will do next. There had been no sign of any seeds. I thought maybe they would show up somewhere when the flowers fell off.
silverbeets gone wild and lettuce blossoms Little did I know!
Pods!
The radishes are forming little pods. Inside which will be the seeds.
Of course! What was I thinking.
I guess we wait until they dry up and then crack em open.

Watching our plants go to seed is a bit of a journey for me.

It is a slow process in this fast paced life of ours. It would be much more "efficient" to just buy some new seeds from the shop and plant them than to wait the months for these plants to produce their own.

Now beside the fact that buying the seeds from the shop is not the best long term. Dont get me started on seed companies!

There is something about the letting the plants go through their natural process.

The journey of planting a seed.
Watching it grow.
Enjoying the fruit from the plant.
Watching the plant grow some more.
Enjoying the beauty of the blossoms.
Watching the plant grow more.
Harvesting the seed.
Planting a new seed.
There is more sometimes in the slow journey.

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