Chickpeas

[macmac]

Has anyone ever grown these ?one of my lottie mates eats loads and wondered if they'd be successful and where she might source the seed ? I said I didn't know........but I bet I know who will !

[Bugloss2009]

seeds of italy have them. Bit pricey mind

http://www.seedsofitaly.com/catalogue/14

[PurpleHeather]

Cant you plant the dried ones from the shop?

It works with other dried things like peas, beans, sweet corn, fennel and coriander seeds

[saddad]

I thought they needed a lot more heat than we can give them... 

[Robert_Brenchley]

That's what I thought, but you should find some expertise here:

http://alanbishop.proboards.com/index.cgi?

[saddad]

An interesting site Robert... with a very familiar layout... 

[lavenderlux]

Someone on our site grew some last year - she used the ones purchased as dried chickpeas and as sold for cooking.  They cropped but you'd need to grow an lot to make it worth using the space - our plot holder grew them just as something different to grow

[dtw]

You can grow the ones from the shop, soak them overnight and put between damp sheets of kitchen paper. Then just sow the ones which germinate. When I did it, about 70% germinated.

It's not worth the bother really for what you get, considering they are very cheap.
They don't taste any different to the ones you buy.

[chriscross1966]

An interesting site Robert... with a very familiar layout... 

And an occasional familiar poster?..... How do you cope with all the Holy Joes I keep finding whenever I start using an American-based gardening board?...... I'm not talking about committed Christians, I have a deep respect for most of the few of those I've ever met, but there's somethign about southern white fundementalist evangelicals that really sets my teeth on edge.....

chrisc

[Robert_Brenchley]

I have difficulty with that as well, but I haven't met it on that site. I'm a very liberal Methodist, and the fur can fly occasionally!

[Squash64]

I grew them one year but I wouldn't bother again.  Each pod had only one or two peas in.  I used the dried ones.

[Vinlander]

If I remember my "Jean de Florette" correctly (lots of useful stuff in there) the thing about chickpeas is that you get a good yield in Provence, especially useful as a life-saver in a year when everything else is suffering from drought.

Definitely not an obvious choice for Blighty then...

[1066]

That makes sense Vinlander expecially if you think about recipies and where they grow - S France, Spain, S Italy, Greece etc. Still it might be fun to try a few