Ack. Whoever said quinoa was easy to harvest was a lying bastard. You have to strip the heads, roll the seed pods in your hands, soak the seeds and rinse them about a hundred times (must determine a method that doesn’t involve gallons of water). They’ve finally come to the point that I can eat the seeds and they taste like raw food instead of a bitter chemical (saponin). Now I can dry them, all three of them. (Not true, there’s a meal’s worth in there, besides the seeds I’m saving.) Anyway I need to know this for the story I’m writing, in my head.
It’s our problem free…. philosophy…..
Work is marginally better.
Another solid night of sleep, thank goodness.
Your seeds may not be suitable to keep for planting. I remember something about the seeds being smaller than the commercial product? If you plant small seeds, you will get small plants and small seeds in the future. Better to start over with fresh stock, feed the ground specifically for the crop, and choose the biggest seeds out of the next harvest to keep for replanting. Also, my experience is, if you want to keep seeds, they need to mature on the plant well past the time that your ‘crop’ is harvested. Maybe quinoa is different, but cucumber, bean, etc all need to dry on the vine. The trick is usually to keep squirrels etc from harvesting them ahead of you.