Collecting Purslane seeds for next year
Watch me harvest microscopic purslane seeds! (photos and animation)
Purslane 'volunteered' in my garden this summer, and I'm collecting seeds to ensure even more of it next year.
This underrated plant, often considered a weed, is beneficial to the garden, tasty, and the best plant source of omega 3 fats. It flowers only for a few hours, on a few mornings of the year, when conditions are right.
Watch this animation of me harvesting the tiny seeds:
A few of those little pods yielded about 150 seeds, now in dry storage over the winter.
In gardening, there's always something exciting and wondrous to look forward to.
DRutter
Hehe cute GIFs! The pursulane seeds are almost as interesting as the plant itself. That pic of the seeds in their pod is quite interesting! :)
They're some of the smallest seeds I've seen. I wonder if the seeds themselves have specific edible or medical properties.
those seeds are almost so small, they seem pointless to collect.... like they're just dust and will be lost and gone by spring anyway. hehe.
Yeah... we thought cannabis seeds were small! Apparently they're more like medium. :P
Ah, pursulane, the secret miracle food that grows wild in the true North! :) It makes such a pretty ground cover, it's a shame that people pull it like a weed.