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    Looking for suggestions for plants to grow with edible seeds please
    Seeds generally are a good source of protein and they pack a lot of flavour into a very small parcel. They can also be a by-product of a plant that is grown primarily for its leaves, flowers or roots. So, instead of just saving seeds (because I'm programmed to) I'd like to eat them
    Here are some I know of, there must be lots more.......
    Pumpkin & squash
    Sunflower,
    Fennel
    Caraway
    Dill
    Cumin
    Fenugreek
    Breadseed poppy
    Amaranth
    Quinoa
    Peas & Beans

  • #2
    On the pumpkin seed front why are the shop brought eddable ones green but the ones you take out while carving your halloween pumpkin white? Are the eddable ones a different variety.

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    • #3
      Flax? not sure how easy it is to grow.
      Nasturtium
      Nuts, (cob nuts, almonds, walnuts, sweet chestnuts) Not sure if you meant this but I thought I'd say anyway
      A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

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      • #4
        The green seeds are inside the white husk although I think there is one pumpkin that produces "naked" seeds! Is it Godiva??

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        • #5
          Radish pods are meant to be nice. Never tried them but am going to let a few radishes run to seed this year and try for myself. Don't know whether they store??

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          • #6
            Fat hen is like quinoa isn't it?

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            • #7
              Originally posted by WendyC View Post
              Radish pods are meant to be nice. Never tried them but am going to let a few radishes run to seed this year and try for myself. Don't know whether they store??
              Rats tail radish are grown for their pods. You can pickle them ... which reminds me I might actually have a jar somewhere.

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              • #8
                Good King Henry - straight from the Paleolithic as a crop...
                Buckwheat - straight from the local Health Food shop... (unroasted )

                I would be very interested in how you get on VC, I am particularly keen to grow linseed, quinoa and buckwheat (this far north I think I am doomed with sunflowers, never mind pumpkins). Emphasising these in my diet has really improved my wintertime health I think.
                There's no point reading history if you don't use the lessons it teaches.

                Head-hunted member of the Nutter's Club - can I get my cranium back please ?

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                • #9
                  Mustard for the seeds.

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                  • #10
                    Poppy seeds on poppyknot bread buns..............yum!
                    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                    Diversify & prosper


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                    • #11
                      Never tried Good King Henry for edible seeds though we have well established plants. What do you do to prepare them for eating? Do you dry them?
                      The pumpkins grown for the hullless seeds are good but you get relatively few seeds from a single fruit. Squash seeds of all kinds can be roasted and eaten.
                      A farmer is growing a field full of buckwheat here this year, so I might creep out at night and harvest a little to give that a taste.

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                      • #12
                        I often add Fennel seeds to bread rolls when I make them
                        Location....East Midlands.

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                        • #13
                          The only others not already mentioned that I can think of are nasturtium seeds - very peppery though, and peanuts, and I think you can eat purslane seeds too. Wikipedia has a list of edible seeds but I'm not familiar with many of the Latin names listed
                          Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
                          Endless wonder.

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                          • #14
                            Growing seeds for eating!

                            Looking for suggestions of plants to grow for edible seeds - other than the obvious peas and beans.

                            I have seeds for:-
                            Sesame
                            Kakai - Hulless seed Pumpkin
                            Breadseed poppy
                            Fennel (green and bronze)
                            Caraway
                            Black Cumin (Nigella sativa)
                            Sunflower
                            Mustard
                            Any squash
                            Coriander
                            Aniseed
                            Fenugreek
                            Szechuan pepper - Zanthoxylum simulans

                            Considering Flax for linseed.
                            Not sure about amaranth or quinoa.

                            There must be more
                            Any tips on growing them and is it worthwhile?
                            Last edited by veggiechicken; 30-12-2015, 09:21 PM. Reason: Adding seeds

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                            • #15
                              Sunflower
                              any squash seed is meant to be edible

                              seed pod - nasturium, radish
                              Last edited by Norfolkgrey; 30-12-2015, 12:15 PM.

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