Harvesting Squash, Planting and Collecting Seeds

This morning I kept busy in my garden.  I decided to remove the Buttercrunch Lettuce plant to collect the seed.  Below is a picture of it when it was developing flowers:

Butter Crunch Lettuce Plant flowers developing

Butter Crunch Lettuce Flowers

After flower development comes

seed development.

The white "furries" 

(at this time I don't know what their called)-

they are what the seeds are attached to.

Butter Crunch Lettuce Flowers and Seeds

Butter Crunch Lettuce Seeds

If you want to carefully collect your seeds from a plant that you uprooted, try to plan it out first so that you don't loose too many seeds in the process as you are carrying around an uprooted plant that is most likely dropping seeds as you carry it trying to figure out where to put it  and how you are going to collect its seeds.  

The Butter Crunch Lettuce plant was uprooted and the stems cut 

so the seeds could be collected and stored until planting.

The portion of the Butter Crunch that was needed to save the seeds 

was removed from the rest of the plant.  

The rest of the plant was cut up and put with a green compost pile.

When bringing plants inside to harvest for seeds make sure

they are bug free. 

Try to prepare the seed areas to take inside to store

 before bringing inside.

Remove stems and leaves then take 

them back outside to your compost pile.

Zucchini Seeds planted for summer/fall and melon seeds

Basil plant starting to go to seed.

Corn in the garden growing this summer-

hoping for some edible corn 🌽 cobs.

Zucchini Squash

Yellow Squash with over hydrated squash below it.

The yellow squash plant and the zucchini plant
do not like too much water.  Some of the squashes start to develop and they get over hydrated make them squishy unable to develop properly.   Remove the dead leaves and underdeveloped squashes so that the plants can use the resources it uses else where on the plants.

Couple of more zucchini growing.


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by Nell Sapp