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 ! ;)
seeds of italy have them. Bit pricey mind
http://www.seedsofitaly.com/catalogue/14 (http://www.seedsofitaly.com/catalogue/14)
Cant you plant the dried ones from the shop?
It works with other dried things like peas, beans, sweet corn, fennel and coriander seeds
I thought they needed a lot more heat than we can give them... :-\
That's what I thought, but you should find some expertise here:
http://alanbishop.proboards.com/index.cgi?
An interesting site Robert... with a very familiar layout... ;D
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
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.
Quote from: saddad on March 13, 2010, 17:43:02
An interesting site Robert... with a very familiar layout... ;D
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 funde
mentalist evangelicals that really sets my teeth on edge.....
chrisc
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!
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.
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...
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 :-\