Collecting Spinach Seeds. The Plant Cycle

Today we are going to show you some pictures of the Spinach seeds that we collected. Our spinach plant bolted (started growing very fast to reproduce before the summer arrives). After it bolted it produced seeds. The seeds were collected and we will plant them in August for our fall spinach crop. Take a look at the process below!

Keila and Ruben (right) collect spinach seeds.

A close up shot of the spinach seeds on the bolted spinach plant (below).

 

 Ruben is collecting the seeds and placing them in a pot to dry. The seeds have to be kept dry so that they do not rot, develop mold, or germinate (right).

 A fun time collecting seeds!