What is up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast and we are back with B of Flora

Kossina and we're going to be talking about harvesting your edible flowers and

also how to store them so that they last as long. harvesting your

harvesting your edible flowers and also how to store them so that you have the most opportunity to use them in your kitchen.

So this is something that I really don't know a whole lot about.

So I'm going to let B lead the way here and tell us some good principles for harvesting

and some great principles for keeping these nice and stored.

Yeah, hey, good to be back.

So for harvesting, it's usually pretty simple. The basic premises you want to harvest early in the morning, and I usually go out with a small pair of snips and a collinder and I load up with all the newly opened blossoms and then I'll get inside

usually rinse them off sometimes if they are larger blossoms like or maybe a bit more

rugged blossoms like the star flowers like pentas I find that if I give them a cold water bath for maybe I don't know 10 15 minutes I feel like

they hold that moisture and that's going to prolong their fridge life.

So I'll put them in there, then I will let the water drain, put them in a salad spinner,

gently get all that excess water off, and then I'll put them into a container with a dry paper towel.

So I generally don't want excess moisture in the So if I want to go a different route and maybe dry the blossoms, I'll do that with my rose petals and

bachelor buttons, for example.

Then I want to usually rinse the rose petals but get them dry spread them out on

drying racks or you could use clean tea towels paper towels and let them air dry I

would not put them in the direct sun, but you want them in a

relatively dry area. And once they're fully, fully dry, I will package them up in an

airtight container.

If I'm going to be doing something else with them, like with my pansies, stock blossoms,

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