In our family we share sunflower seeds with bird-life over the winter when they dont have much to eat. We give them food and they sing to us and we are both happy :)
As a vegan, my main protein sources are beans and seeds so this was awesome to see. I planned my garden out before seeing this and looks like i made some good choices! Thanks for the video
It's great if you can then use garden-collected fennel seeds to flavour garden-grown pumpkin/squash seeds. Those pumpkin seeds - with chili flakes, salt and fennel seeds - were genuinely delicious, even my six-year-old loved them!
Sunflowers are a staple in my gardens. I don't eat many of the seeds myself, but the chickens and turkeys love them all winter long. The stocks are a favorite of the goats, and I swear the milk tastes sunny after they spend a couple weeks noshing on them.
I grew just three mammoth sunflowers this year. LOTS of bees when they bloomed, but then squirrels (and birds, but mostly squirrels) came in to decimate them for food. My solution was to rescue just one of the mature seed heads (well, it was more like 2/3 of a seed head once the squirrels had at it) to hang dry in my basement for seed, leaving the rest to the wildlife. Win-win. I'd like to grow cilantro and fennel for seed next. :)
Letting dill go into seed is great! There is nothing better then chicken gravy with dill seeds. I also use the dill seed heads to add to my ferments and pickles.very versatile!
We grow sunflower, millet and sorgum in our garden this to encourage wild life but also to attract bees. The seed pods are also fantastic for flower arranging.
Nice take. I just harvested nettle, sunflower and dock seeds, my coriander seeds I will try to replant next year. We also have amaranth plants growing in our wild flower garden. I like how you did this
Thank you, inspiring as usual! We grew amaranth this year but the amount of grain harvested and the fiddle of cleaning it of chaff was hardly worth the effort, but it's a meal I grew myself. The most productive crop for us was the runner bean Tsar which can be eaten as a green bean but MUCH better to leave it alone to set seed. The seeds are fat and white and once dried can be stored and cooked like any dried bean, they are delicious.
@@marymcandrew7667 I'm in southern England, where are you? We are classified as climate zone 8 and yes I start almost everything indoors. Partly to get a head start ready to plant out after last frost date and also because mice eat any seeds sown direct.
@@suehunter5024 Thanks Sue, I live in Northumberland, so we're a bit behind you on the growing season. Yes, mice are problem up here too! (where aren't they?) Thanks for your reply, I guess I'll have to start them indoors too if I try them. I want to learn to grow more beans and peas.
@@marymcandrew7667 it is a lot of trial and error here! Finding out what varieties we like to eat and do well in our garden. For example we don't much like the texture of runner beans but there is a flat podded climbing French bean called Hunter which we love and grows reliably here. You can buy very similar beans in the supermarket usually grown in Morrocco. We grow several varieties of tomato in the greenhouse which have proved reliable. As for peas, apart from a few for the grandchildren to pick I have given up on podding peas. The mice eat the seeds, then gnaw through the stalks the steal the pods! So we concentrate on growing sugar snap peas since the are a higher value crop. Good luck, hope 2020 is a productive year for you.
I've just bought edible lupin seed for next year. The seeds look a bit like broad beans, and apparently are commonly eaten in many countries. The plants are as decorative as normal lupins, so I'll probably grow them in my flower beds rather than the vegetable garden.
France is very popular for edible lupin and lupin flower is used in many gluten free products! Just would advice that some people have intolerances or allergies for lupin flour/seeds so observe how you feel after eating.
Another good video. I grow pumpkins and other squash, seeds sunflower for my bird. I want to try others for me and my birds also like Amaranth and caraway... Thanks
I grow caraway (I absolutely love it), pumpkin, sunflower, and amaranth (although I have trouble harvesting the seeds and don't have enough space to grow enough for the tiny seeds to make much of a meal). I also love using dill seeds and celery seeds as a spice.
We're going to try growing quinoa this year and also black oil sunflowers in our 3 sisters plot for the trellises and seeds for the birds, I want to spoil the birds and thank them for eating all the insects and aerating the ground :)
Oh my stars! I am going to try quinoa next season. What a brilliant idea! And all the ideas for the seeds you showed, so many possibilities! Why grow the everyday, when you can grow the phenomenal?! Thank you once again for opening up my mind to the wonders that await! Continued blessings, daisy@MapleHill101
I will be trying out buckwheat come this spring in Australia, along with amaranth, and corn for cornmeal, not technically a grain but you can make muffins and stuff out of it
I am lucky to have found quinoa growing on my allotment this year and have just harvested. Not sure exactly how to get the outer husks off as apparently they contain saponins which is why they are left alone by birds. Thanks for this video, has inspired me to save some of the seeds to sow for next year as I have about a kilo!
Try like wheat. Put the heads in your hands, roll back and forth, gently blow the chaff away. Maybe some hardware cloth small size to screen whats left away. Tedious I know, but raising it you know what is and isn't in it.
We have an article all about growing and separating quinoa here: www.growveg.com/guides/grow-your-own-protein-quinoa/ In my experience, it took a few washes to get the saponins out but once that was done it tasted great!
Millets are very pretty plants, and so many varieties. When I finally have a decent amount of land.... But the sunflower seeds... I got some cheaply from an ethnic shop of which there are a great many where I live, usually run by Turks. Well. Its a bit like they say about celery, it takes more calories to eat than you get from the seeds. 😆 And you look like a Gopnik.
Some great ideas! If I can find where to buy amaranth seed, I'll give it a go. (I wish there was an easy way to remove the shells from pumpkin and sunflower seeds. I find them so fiddly and I don't like eating the shells! I wonder if anyone has invented a small manual seed shelling device?)
If want classic pepitas, (pumpkin seeds without the tough shell), try growing oilseed pumpkins. These varieties have almost no seed coat giving you tender pumpkin seeds without a hard shell. Here are a few links to different varieties.I have not tried these all but if you search your favorite seed catalog for oilseed or naked seed pumpkin, you should find what you are looking for. www.victoryseeds.com/pumpkin_williams-naked.html www.territorialseed.com/product/nakedbear-pumpkin-seed/all_commercial_pumpkins www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/pumpkins/specialty-pumpkins/kakai-pumpkin-seed-2860.html
Fantastic replies! Thanks, Shannon and Les! I have ordered Styrian pumpkin seed from Chiltern Seeds here in England, and I will check out Garden Organic for more details on amaranth and other useful grains we can grow here. It's so helpful to learn new information. Thanks again!
If you can grow poppy, amaranth, sunflower etc. then you could certainly grow nigella, fennel and quinoa I'm sure. Nigella and quinoa are annuals anyhow, so they can be sown in the spring to flower and produce seed later that summer or into fall. Fennel is hardy down to at least zone 5, but can be grown as an annual if its a lot colder than this where you are.
That's a good question Hannah, and the honest answer is I'm not 100% certain. Sometimes seeds are processed or split in some way so they won't germinate. I would suggest giving it a go to see and if it fails then buying in some seed.
Can I just clarify with you the bit about poppy seeds? I know that we have them on bread etc...but i recall as a child eating a handful of poppy seeds from pods and made myself rather poorly, hallucinating etc I assumed for the rest of my life that they must have not been the type of seeds which you find on bread etc.... a different variety perhaps...you will understand my caution therefore. So you are saying that it is ok to eat these seeds for sure, absolutely, definitely?
Hi Shirley. Poppy seeds look very similar from different varieties of poppy. But not all are edible! I can assure you that seeds from the opium poppy - Papaver somniferum (Latin name) are edible. Unless you have an allergy of course. But the opium poppy seeds are considered edible and are the type you'd find in bread etc.
Many thanks for the inspiration However Caraway is a perennial that only lives for two years? I guess you meant biannual? But even so "it only lives for two years suggesting you get two crops Surely a biannual grows in it's first year and only flowers in it's second year before dying? And a written report list table perhaps by a link would be great rather than trying to remember all the detail? But otherwise great Thanks
Yes, caraway is a biennial (its lifecycle takes two years). Essentially it offer two crops because in its first leaves it will offer plenty of fresh leaves for picking, then in its second year come the seeds.
Thank you both, maybe it is better to just buy, but many come from China or unknown European countries and not sure what they may use on them. I'll look and see the varieties for green seeds.
Sentath thank you! I just looked at your link, so many new seeds to look at for growing hulless! I never knew that's how they grew! I hope to try some out maybe next year.
@@kathibenchley3874 Hi Kathi, there are many types of amaranth. In Mexico they make amaranth seed cookies, called alegrias. And from a sort amaranth called huazontle they make a most delicious dish. You might like to Google it up. Greetings from Holland.
In our family we share sunflower seeds with bird-life over the winter when they dont have much to eat.
We give them food and they sing to us and we are both happy :)
Totally agree with you.👍
Us too!
@@theclosetmusician1945 Love to see that I am not the only one :)
@@vins6036 Great! Birds are fantastic!
Yes, we should all grown things to share with wildlife. After all, it's their land too and they need to eat. It's a win-win situation. :)
I’ve grown sesame seeds in zone 6 - easy! Thanks for the other ideas.
I'm loving my scarlet amaranth plants so far! Very elegant shape and gives a nice color to the garden
As a vegan, my main protein sources are beans and seeds so this was awesome to see. I planned my garden out before seeing this and looks like i made some good choices! Thanks for the video
Great you've made some good choices there Angeline.
We planted Sunflowers for the seeds, Cilantro for Coriander, and Poppy seeds; this past Spring.
3:20 You can also make a Relaxing Tea with the dried out Poppy Pods😉
So I've heard! ;-)
I’d completely forgotten about fennel seeds! Our fennel has been great this yr; luckily it’s still flowering so not all is lost. Thanks!
It's great if you can then use garden-collected fennel seeds to flavour garden-grown pumpkin/squash seeds. Those pumpkin seeds - with chili flakes, salt and fennel seeds - were genuinely delicious, even my six-year-old loved them!
Maize is really easy to grow in the right climate, and is one of the most productive and easiest grains to deal with as a home.gardener
Interesting! Never thought of seeds as a crop as such. I have several of these plants and will now look at them very differently, thank you.
Sunflowers are a staple in my gardens. I don't eat many of the seeds myself, but the chickens and turkeys love them all winter long. The stocks are a favorite of the goats, and I swear the milk tastes sunny after they spend a couple weeks noshing on them.
I grew just three mammoth sunflowers this year. LOTS of bees when they bloomed, but then squirrels (and birds, but mostly squirrels) came in to decimate them for food. My solution was to rescue just one of the mature seed heads (well, it was more like 2/3 of a seed head once the squirrels had at it) to hang dry in my basement for seed, leaving the rest to the wildlife. Win-win.
I'd like to grow cilantro and fennel for seed next. :)
Letting dill go into seed is great! There is nothing better then chicken gravy with dill seeds. I also use the dill seed heads to add to my ferments and pickles.very versatile!
Dill is my new favorite! I have even started growing it indoors now in the winter time so it's always fresh!
Buckwheat is very nutritious and super easy to grow.
We grow sunflower, millet and sorgum in our garden this to encourage wild life but also to attract bees.
The seed pods are also fantastic for flower arranging.
Nice take. I just harvested nettle, sunflower and dock seeds, my coriander seeds I will try to replant next year. We also have amaranth plants growing in our wild flower garden.
I like how you did this
Thank you, inspiring as usual! We grew amaranth this year but the amount of grain harvested and the fiddle of cleaning it of chaff was hardly worth the effort, but it's a meal I grew myself. The most productive crop for us was the runner bean Tsar which can be eaten as a green bean but MUCH better to leave it alone to set seed. The seeds are fat and white and once dried can be stored and cooked like any dried bean, they are delicious.
Sue Hunter they sound great! I don't know where you live but do you have to start them in a green house first or directly sow?
@@marymcandrew7667 I'm in southern England, where are you? We are classified as climate zone 8 and yes I start almost everything indoors. Partly to get a head start ready to plant out after last frost date and also because mice eat any seeds sown direct.
@@suehunter5024 Thanks Sue, I live in Northumberland, so we're a bit behind you on the growing season. Yes, mice are problem up here too! (where aren't they?) Thanks for your reply, I guess I'll have to start them indoors too if I try them. I want to learn to grow more beans and peas.
@@marymcandrew7667 it is a lot of trial and error here! Finding out what varieties we like to eat and do well in our garden. For example we don't much like the texture of runner beans but there is a flat podded climbing French bean called Hunter which we love and grows reliably here. You can buy very similar beans in the supermarket usually grown in Morrocco. We grow several varieties of tomato in the greenhouse which have proved reliable. As for peas, apart from a few for the grandchildren to pick I have given up on podding peas. The mice eat the seeds, then gnaw through the stalks the steal the pods! So we concentrate on growing sugar snap peas since the are a higher value crop. Good luck, hope 2020 is a productive year for you.
Sue Hunter thanks so much Sue, I've noted down what you said!
easy to grow sesame seeds and they are a very pretty flower during the summer
Had no idea love in the mist seeds were edible! Thanks
Hey, all you gardeners, this is an excellent site to follow for information and advice. 2 thumbs up!
I've just bought edible lupin seed for next year. The seeds look a bit like broad beans, and apparently are commonly eaten in many countries. The plants are as decorative as normal lupins, so I'll probably grow them in my flower beds rather than the vegetable garden.
France is very popular for edible lupin and lupin flower is used in many gluten free products! Just would advice that some people have intolerances or allergies for lupin flour/seeds so observe how you feel after eating.
@@Heliotropka Thank you - that's worth knowing!
Such an excellent video. I am keen to start planting some of these!
I was looking for information on growing rice, wheat, etc.
Pumpkin microgreens are excellent too.
They are, absolutely.
Another good video. I grow pumpkins and other squash, seeds sunflower for my bird. I want to try others for me and my birds also like Amaranth and caraway... Thanks
Thank you! I have the poppies down, but could you do more on amaranth please?
We'll add this to our list of suggestions for future video topics, many thanks.
Yes, please :)
This is also good for people with pets or bird feeders 👍
I grow caraway (I absolutely love it), pumpkin, sunflower, and amaranth (although I have trouble harvesting the seeds and don't have enough space to grow enough for the tiny seeds to make much of a meal). I also love using dill seeds and celery seeds as a spice.
Dill and celery are great too - good call!
@@GrowVeg I love to use dill seed in my steak marinade.
We're going to try growing quinoa this year and also black oil sunflowers in our 3 sisters plot for the trellises and seeds for the birds, I want to spoil the birds and thank them for eating all the insects and aerating the ground :)
Oh my stars! I am going to try quinoa next season. What a brilliant idea! And all the ideas for the seeds you showed, so many possibilities! Why grow the everyday, when you can grow the phenomenal?! Thank you once again for opening up my mind to the wonders that await! Continued blessings, daisy@MapleHill101
I will be trying out buckwheat come this spring in Australia, along with amaranth, and corn for cornmeal, not technically a grain but you can make muffins and stuff out of it
Also just ordered some sorghum and oat seed
I am lucky to have found quinoa growing on my allotment this year and have just harvested. Not sure exactly how to get the outer husks off as apparently they contain saponins which is why they are left alone by birds. Thanks for this video, has inspired me to save some of the seeds to sow for next year as I have about a kilo!
Try like wheat. Put the heads in your hands, roll back and forth, gently blow the chaff away. Maybe some hardware cloth small size to screen whats left away. Tedious I know, but raising it you know what is and isn't in it.
We have an article all about growing and separating quinoa here: www.growveg.com/guides/grow-your-own-protein-quinoa/ In my experience, it took a few washes to get the saponins out but once that was done it tasted great!
I want to grow chia seeds, someone recommended them to me. I haven’t had much luck with amaranth. Maybe the drought, maybe dodgy seeds.
Chia seeds are full of protein. Good luck with them.
Thank you!
Millets are very pretty plants, and so many varieties. When I finally have a decent amount of land.... But the sunflower seeds... I got some cheaply from an ethnic shop of which there are a great many where I live, usually run by Turks. Well. Its a bit like they say about celery, it takes more calories to eat than you get from the seeds. 😆 And you look like a Gopnik.
Great information
Some great ideas! If I can find where to buy amaranth seed, I'll give it a go.
(I wish there was an easy way to remove the shells from pumpkin and sunflower seeds. I find them so fiddly and I don't like eating the shells! I wonder if anyone has invented a small manual seed shelling device?)
Yes God invented birds
If want classic pepitas, (pumpkin seeds without the tough shell), try growing oilseed pumpkins. These varieties have almost no seed coat giving you tender pumpkin seeds without a hard shell. Here are a few links to different varieties.I have not tried these all but if you search your favorite seed catalog for oilseed or naked seed pumpkin, you should find what you are looking for. www.victoryseeds.com/pumpkin_williams-naked.html www.territorialseed.com/product/nakedbear-pumpkin-seed/all_commercial_pumpkins www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/pumpkins/specialty-pumpkins/kakai-pumpkin-seed-2860.html
Get them from Garden Organic.
Fantastic replies! Thanks, Shannon and Les! I have ordered Styrian pumpkin seed from Chiltern Seeds here in England, and I will check out Garden Organic for more details on amaranth and other useful grains we can grow here. It's so helpful to learn new information. Thanks again!
Great ideas! 🤗
Great video again...thank you
Can you eat any sunflowers seeds?
Yes, sunflower seeds make great eating.
What USDA zones can you grow nigella, fennel and quinoa? I grow pumpkin, sunflower, poppy, amaranth which we call Love Lies Bleeding, and coriander
If you can grow poppy, amaranth, sunflower etc. then you could certainly grow nigella, fennel and quinoa I'm sure. Nigella and quinoa are annuals anyhow, so they can be sown in the spring to flower and produce seed later that summer or into fall. Fennel is hardy down to at least zone 5, but can be grown as an annual if its a lot colder than this where you are.
GrowVeg thanks very much. I am in zone 5b in southern Ontario, one of the warmest areas.
Can quinoa be grown from quinoa seeds you buy from the supermarket?
That's a good question Hannah, and the honest answer is I'm not 100% certain. Sometimes seeds are processed or split in some way so they won't germinate. I would suggest giving it a go to see and if it fails then buying in some seed.
Surprised you didn't include dill seeds with the fennel and caraway.
Yes, good point. Dill is an awesome seed too!
First! Great video as always Jeremy
great vid, i dont believe its keenowa though ! I saw a quinoa farmer pronounce it "quin-oa"
I think there are many ways to pronounce it Stu - you may well be right!
Ive heard it as "kee-no." Who know 😂
Can u grow Amaranth from store bought seed? 🙂
Potentially - a lot of things can be grown this way. It may have been treated in some way though - so be wary of that. But certainly worth a try.
Can I just clarify with you the bit about poppy seeds? I know that we have them on bread etc...but i recall as a child eating a handful of poppy seeds from pods and made myself rather poorly, hallucinating etc I assumed for the rest of my life that they must have not been the type of seeds which you find on bread etc.... a different variety perhaps...you will understand my caution therefore. So you are saying that it is ok to eat these seeds for sure, absolutely, definitely?
Hi Shirley. Poppy seeds look very similar from different varieties of poppy. But not all are edible! I can assure you that seeds from the opium poppy - Papaver somniferum (Latin name) are edible. Unless you have an allergy of course. But the opium poppy seeds are considered edible and are the type you'd find in bread etc.
@@GrowVeg ah...thank you!
Many thanks for the inspiration
However Caraway is a perennial that only lives for two years?
I guess you meant biannual? But even so "it only lives for two years suggesting you get two crops
Surely a biannual grows in it's first year and only flowers in it's second year before dying?
And a written report list table perhaps by a link would be great rather than trying to remember all the detail?
But otherwise great Thanks
Yes, caraway is a biennial (its lifecycle takes two years). Essentially it offer two crops because in its first leaves it will offer plenty of fresh leaves for picking, then in its second year come the seeds.
You are correct! But remember, it's biennial.... Biannual means twice in the SAME year! ;)
Can you buy any of these seeds from Amazon?
I would imagine so. Otherwise a general search on Google or wherever should throw up where to purchase these seeds.
@@GrowVeg Do you have any links? That would be an immense help.
How can we get the shells off pumpkin is what I'd like to know, I don't like them with the shell on.
duckduckgo.com/?q=hulless+pumpkin+seed+varieties&atb=v167-1&ia=web
Grow a green variety meant for seeds. Or just buy pepitas, they’re super cheap
Thank you both, maybe it is better to just buy, but many come from China or unknown European countries and not sure what they may use on them. I'll look and see the varieties for green seeds.
Sentath thank you! I just looked at your link, so many new seeds to look at for growing hulless! I never knew that's how they grew! I hope to try some out maybe next year.
Don't forget about Wheat, Barley, Sorghum, Oats, Rye, and Rice.
Interesting and useful! Thanks! Wouldn't the young leaves of the Amaranth be edible? Mexicans eat them. They call them 'quelites'
I grew amaranth for the first time this past summer and used the young leaves in salads, omelettes, just like I would spinach.
@@kathibenchley3874 Hi Kathi, there are many types of amaranth. In Mexico they make amaranth seed cookies, called alegrias. And from a sort amaranth called huazontle they make a most delicious dish. You might like to Google it up. Greetings from Holland.
how are nigella seeds used?
Here are a few ideas: www.bbcgoodfood.com/glossary/nigella-seed
They have a lovely slightly anise type flavour. I use them in spiced rice.
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