Baking type poppy seeds, anyone ever plant em?
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poppy seed for baking?
Comments (15)The seed from the annual poppy Papaver somniferum are used in cooking. In Canada and the US it is legal to have seeds but illegal to have any other part of this plant. Many people do grow it and suffer no adverse consequences. But the authorities can destroy or make you destroy the plants. Unless you are growing acres of it or growing for nefarious purposes, this will likely not happen. There is the concept of mens rea. Seed colour and basal patch colour are related. Petals with a white basal patch will have white or straw coloured seeds. Petals with a dark basal patch will have dark coloured seeds. The dark basal patch and dark seeds are coloured with anthocyanin. The blue-grey seeds are prefered for baking. In India, the white seeds are more common. If you plan to grow these plants in quantity for the seeds, then go to the baking or bulk section of the supermarket and buy 100 grams for $1 or $2. For white seeds, go to an East Indian grocery store. Sometimes the seeds have been steam heated to prevent them from germinating. You will have to just to do a germination test and find seeds that are fertile. The infertile seeds can of course be used in baking. When making banana bread, line the pan with butter and coat the butter with poppy seeds before adding the batter. Takes the banana bread up to the next level so to speak....See Moreopium poppy seeds wanted
Comments (46)Caroline, my poppy seedlings this year are still tiny and they have come up very thick. All I do is wait until about January, then I scatter the seed where I want the poppies to grow, as I haven't had good luck transplanting poppies. I don't cover the seed or even tamp them down. I'm still kind of new at growing poppies, this being only my second year, and I did worry about the birds coming along and eating the seed so at first I covered the bed with some old curtain sheers that I keep for use in the garden. But at some point one end came loose from the edge and I watched closely and didn't see any birds coming to the raised bed to eat, so I took the sheers off and just ignored them until early spring, when I was out one day and noticed lots of little seedlings up. They have ridden out numerous nights of freezing temps and the only thing I did was to water from time to time during a dry spell. It may be that planting in the fall is too early to plant? Maybe they broke dormancy too soon and then dried out, or maybe the birds ate the seed? Maybe they were covered too deep in the soil? At any rate one would think a few of them would've survived, from planting that many. You should have seedlings up by now if they've been out all winter, though. You might try stirring the top layer of soil up a little. When something doesn't germinate for me, I have a spot in one of the raised beds where I spread the dirt from ungerminated plantings. Sometimes things come up the next year out of that dirt!...See MoreSeed Gathering: Poppies
Comments (18)Dawn- You enjoy those muffins! You just can't beat them! When they are done, you just come on up here and I will have the coffee or tea ready. :) Actually, that sounds like a great way to spend this afternoon while its raining, baking some muffins! I had never seen poppies before, except on the Wizard of Oz, so when we came down here in late March, early April of last year to look at towns and houses, I was in awe to see them all over the sides of the roads. And I think they are just lovely. And after Sammy posted that picture, I think larkspur's are just lovely too, as I had never seen them before either. There is something else here that was growing on the side of the road leading back into our area that I have no idea what it was that was beautiful. I kept telling Josh I was going to sneak up there one night and dig a bunch out to bring back here to plant. Upon a quick google search I think it might have been Indian Paintbrush. Oh and the Redbud trees..we didn't have those in Wichita. If we did they were few and far between. I think Oklahoma has opened my eyes a bit more to natures beauty, gardening, and just soaking it all in. Its a lot different here then being in a big city....See MorePoppy Seeds
Comments (11)Hi yall, I'm just getting acquainted with the winter sowing forums and the Texas gardening forum. I'm all excited about winter sowing - this will be the first time for me - can hardly wait!! Today, my husband and I went to Home Depot and they had a bunch of seed packets at $1.00 ea. I bought 2 different poppy seeds: a pizzacato mix and a red one, plus a CA poppy; plus about 10 other flowers! I have a question, though - I was checking the wintersowing.org database for zone 7 and many (if not most) of the plantings they showed were for Feb or Mar or later. Isn't that a little late for winter sowing? I would have thought that winter sowing would start in Nov and continue thru Dec, Jan, and Feb. Those are what I consider the winter months. March is when it starts to really warm up! Those of you that have had experience in wintersowing please enlighten me, ok?...See Morethe_musicman
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