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I have taken over a smallholding and it has one polytunnel full of self-sown poppies (papaver somniferum). I use a lot of poppy seeds in cooking so does anyone know if these are safe to eat once ripe and dry.
Meg
Meg
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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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Loads of those at our plot, seems a lot of older people have plenty of them for some reason
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Is that all sorts of poppies? I've got the small, yellow flowering one spreading all over my garden. Like a weed. I mgiht feel quite differently about it if I could harvest the seeds.
I've tried to google poppies to see if I can identify what we have. It looks like meconopsis cambrica (welsh poppy).
Any idea, anyone?
ThanksCaro
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day
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It's only the opium poppy (papaver somniferum) that has edible seeds. You can usually identify it by its distinctive smooth leaves.Last edited by maypril; 01-07-2010, 09:31 PM.Comment
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Thanks for that. Saves me poisoning myself. Which would be quite inconvenient
Caro
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I'm sure I saw in some magazine that you could eat ALL Papaver seeds. Better dig it outOriginally posted by maypril View Post
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According to Alys Fowler, you can eat Opium, somniferum, corn poppy,rhoea, arctic poppy ,nudicale, and all their resulting cultivars. Pretty much everything then!Mad Old Bat With Attitude.
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Try then out on a man. If he dies, no matter....Comment
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ooo...Nasty.Comment
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From Irene: Men have two purposes in life: reproduction and to open those friggin jars. -- IreneOriginally posted by Madasafish View Post
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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