These are onion seed heads we harvested mid-summer and let dry down. |
These are the onion seeds (black dots) with chaff. It's often not necessary to get homegrown seed perfectly free of chaff. In this case, the chaff and seeds will all get planted without issue. |
As we harvest bulb onions during the summer , we set aside three dozen or so of the biggest and nicest shaped of each variety for seed. These we bunch up and hang in an outbuilding until fall. |