Growing seeds to eat !!

[Jay-ell]

Can you keep the seed of rats tail radish, and do they self seed as my son has several plants of them in his garden where I can get the seeds or plants from

If you haven't let other radishes etc go to seed then yes you should be able to seed save them for tre seeds, just let the pods go brown but pick them before they split otherwise you'll have tons of self sown ratstails next year.

I grew them once and pickled them but didn't like them much so unlikely that I'll grow them again. You can do the same with other radish seed pods as well.

[Snadger]

If you haven't let other radishes etc go to seed then yes you should be able to seed save them for tre seeds, just let the pods go brown but pick them before they split otherwise you'll have tons of self sown ratstails next year.

I grew them once and pickled them but didn't like them much so unlikely that I'll grow them again. You can do the same with other radish seed pods as well.

Seem to remember you can use them instead of hops for beer..............or did i dream that?

[veggiechicken]

Can a Kind Mod merge this thread with http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ing_87826.html please.
I seem to have asked the same question twice and still haven't sown these edible seeds
Maybe 2018's project (amongst others)

[veggiechicken]

Still looking for a Kind Mod ^^^^^ There must be one?

[Snadger]

Don't think sweetcorn has been mentioned on this old thread?

Just do summat norty VC.........that'll get there attention!

[veggiechicken]

Will this do?

[Bren In Pots]

Still looking for a Kind Mod ^^^^^ There must be one?

I've merged them

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Bren. You receive the Kind Mod of the Day Award

[veggiechicken]

Amaranth

Interesting article (I thought so anyway)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...he-garden.html

[Birdie Wife]

Soya? Temperamental but it seems to be turning up in more catalogues now.

I grew giant butterbeans (Greek Gigantes) last year for drying for the winter soups, they were delicious. I put them in a part of the plot that's a bit hard to get to when everything else is growing as I knew I could just let them get on with it. And get on with it they certainly did!

[Snoop Puss]

We have wild amaranth around the place. I view it as a potential weed... All those seeds... We don't eat it - as the seeds are exceedingly small. Maybe a cultivated version would be better. I don't think I'll be trying it.

That said, I did actually grow some once in a garden. People kept stopping and peering over the gate and asking me what it was. Really. Sad thing is it came out of a packet of mixed flower seeds and I had no idea (back in the dim and distant pre-internet past).

Love the sound of the Greek Gigantes, BW. I just love butterbeans.

[Chestnut]

Lentils, spelt and oats?

Found a news article about 6 months ago about a firm growing lentils in Hertfordshire. If they can grow them, then they’re definitely worth a try in Wales!

[ancee]

Hi VC! I grow fennel to make tea out of the seeds. Also coriander to crush with olives and feta. Nigella for me and the birds. This year for the first time I grew teasels for seeds for the birds and yesterday I got 3 finches... never had them before

[veggiechicken]

Ancee x
Not quite edible seeds (I don't think?) but I left a clump of verbena bonariensis which attracted the goldfinches - easily a dozen+ at a time.
I also cut some stems and hung them from the clothes line The finches hung there as it twirled around in the wind - like riding a carousel at the fair.

[planetologist]

I think green coriander seed is much nicer than dry.
I really like lovage seed.
I think quinoa is the better choice than amaranth. Over the course of a few years, the amaranth plants became smaller and smaller. At a wild guess it might be like mais, of which apparently you need to grow ~200 plants to prevent inbreeding. And amaranth chaff is much tougher, so imperfect winnowing makes for a poor meal.

Pumpkin, poppy, Sunflower, Coriander and Fenugreek are annual
Fennel and Szechuan pepper are perennial