Collecting Broccoli Seeds

The broccoli seedpods are finally ready for harvest and their seeds collected. We're so excited!! This is the first time we collected the broccoli seeds so I hope the seeds are good for planting.

There were quite a few seedpods, so I picked the best looking ones, the chunkiest looking 🙂. As can be seen from the photos, they have the visible bumps which indicate good size seeds.

For the past few weeks I have been peeking inside a few pods to see if the seeds have turned brown in colour, so I'm happy to finally see brown coloured seeds.

There are lots of seedpods, so my 5 year old helped me to peel and collect the seeds. 

We have lots of mature brown seeds. Yay!! Fingers crossed they are good seeds and can grow into awesome Broccoli plants.

Lemon Honey Icypoles

My 5 year old had recently started school and he seemed to take on this icypoles craze. He asked me to make icypoles for at home. So, it seemed appropriate for me to prepare a beneficial icypoles during this time of virus crisis.

I recently bought this icypoles mould from Avanti and last weekend was the first time I tried to use them.

I decided to make honey and lemon icypoles.

Lemon rind was peeled and drying at the moment, for herbal tea.

The lemon juice:

Add honey to taste:

Combine honey, lemon juice and add water:

Pour into moulds:

Cose lids and freeze:

Lastly, washed the seeds and dry. I'm going to try to plant them. When life gives you lemons, you take as much as you can out of them!

Sunflower Seed Harvest Continuation

Continuation from the last post. We completed the sunflower seeds harvest the next day. I have my little helper doing the majority of the work.

We collected quite a few seeds from just 1 large flower and 4-5 tiny ones: