The first indigo harvest

Persicaria tinctoria at Parque da Devesa, Famalicão (Japanese indigo)

Harvesting the Japanese índigos

Harvesting the Japanese indigos

Coreopsis tinctoria 

Keeping the seeds for the next year, these are Coreopsis tinctoria's seed pods

Safflower

Dyer's Chamomile

These plants are very generous. They keep on giving, so I'll dry them for later use.

Experimenting with fermenting the fresh leaves to extract the pigment.

This was our first harvest of our indigos that are growing in the Parque da Devesa, in Famalicão! The right time to harvest it was actually about a month ago, well before they started flowering, but at the time I was in the middle of all the flax activities and couldn't get around to do it. 
Most of the leaves will be dried for later use, but I couldn't resist using some of them immediately to do some fermenting experiments.
Many of the other plants are flowering and being harvested to be dried as well: coreopsis, dyer's chamomile, safflower, marigolds, calendulas... The woad is growing steadily and also is the madder.