Sugar - from seed to spoon

[Toddy]

Good stuff, all good stuff though

Maybe if we valued sugar more, we wouldn't so abuse it's use. In the 16th century it was still considered medicinal and was expensive. Reading your thread one can easily see why.

Thank you for the posts

atb,
M

 

[British Red]

The next step in our quest for self sufficient sugar is to harvest seed

The tall seed heads did "flop" over and formed a dense carpet


Sugar beet mass by British Red, on Flickr

The individual seeds were starting to drop (although some were ripe, others were green), so we harvested the flower spikes


Sugar beet seed heads harvested by British Red, on Flickr

Digging out the beet it was amazing to find just hollow shells - all that energy had gone into the flower spikes


Consumed second year sugar beet by British Red, on Flickr

The seed heads have been hung up to dry


Sugar Beet seed heads drying by British Red, on Flickr

The ripe seeds look a lot like the commercial seed we started with


Home grown sugar beet seeds by British Red, on Flickr

We will now dry the seed, harvest and re-grow from our own seed to prove that we have bred true - its a long old job testing all these theories out!

Red

 

[woodstock]

Are you selling any of the seeds

 

[British Red]

I can put some up for a donation towards postage if people would like to try growing their own. Always delighted to get other maniacs to try this stuff

 

[woodstock]

I will be more than happy to pay P+P thank you so much