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Has anyone grown chick peas and like to report their success/failure?

Rdak, just browsing through VidaVerde seeds  //www.vidaverde.co.uk
and found this! Hope it helps  DP

~CHICKPEAS ~

 'Brown popping chickpea' (Cicer arietinum) POPS LIKE POPCORN!
Something truly new. Recently we've been growing some rather unusual chickpeas that you can cook like popcorn! You simply fry them in little hot oil until they pop and make a nutritious crunchy snack.

Ten years ago plant breeder Carol Deppe tested thousands of chickpeas and found two large varieties from Morocco that popped very well, and we have been trying these out for the past four years. One of them was particularly reliable and productive, with pretty pink flowers and high yields of mottled brown seeds, and we've now multiplied it up to the stage where we can offer some seed for you to try.

And yes, you can grow chickpeas in the UK. They are just as cold tolerant as broad beans, but to avoid fungal problems caused by prolonged wet periods, they are planted in late spring rather than overwintered.

Rare popping chickpea, dark brown seed, pink flowers.

thanks DP- interesting..never heard of popping chick peas before! maybe one for next year, I have already bought far too many seed packets for this year!

Hi all

Never grown them as a plant but they are great sprouted-like you do with mung beans.

Stephan.