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Anonymous Coward User ID: 42589698 Portugal 06/30/2013 06:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! Valery, i don't belive, the pigeon peas you sed me just start to sprout in the pots!!!! Quoting: Luisport Have fun watching them grow! it was sooo fast!!! I never imagine that! It caught me by surprise also we have a heat wave in this moment with 38 to 39C during the day and 20C+ in the night so i supposed this is the main reason... my tropical fruit trees are growing fast on this temp. and some are flowering! |
lionhound (OP) User ID: 625009 United States 06/30/2013 09:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! we have a heat wave in this moment with 38 to 39C during the day and 20C+ in the night so i supposed this is the main reason... my tropical fruit trees are growing fast on this temp. and some are flowering! It's a good thing you have diversified your plant portfolio with both tropicals and cold hardy plants. Global warming, new ice age or pole shift, you'll be fine. I am diversified too. |
lionhound (OP) User ID: 625009 United States 06/30/2013 10:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! used to eat them suckers,had to soak em overnight first cos they was rock hard(use them for pea shooters),they was like mushy peas,used to have them in the boozer with bacon in em.also used to call em grey peas. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42571900 Ok you really started something. I did a sneak attack on the kids during a movie. It's been all out war. Tomorrow I will have to pick peas out of the carpet and plant them. Hehe |
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lionhound (OP) User ID: 625009 United States 07/06/2013 01:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! [link to www.floridasurvivalgardening.com] Florida cranberry a.k.a. Jamacian sorrel. I started some of these seeds a little late as I just discovered it. Has anyone tried this plant? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 42905894 Portugal 07/06/2013 09:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! [link to www.floridasurvivalgardening.com] Quoting: lionhound Florida cranberry a.k.a. Jamacian sorrel. I started some of these seeds a little late as I just discovered it. Has anyone tried this plant? WOW!!! What is this? It's a fruit or what? This flower is very beautifull!!! |
lionhound (OP) User ID: 625009 United States 07/07/2013 02:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! [link to www.floridasurvivalgardening.com] Quoting: lionhound Florida cranberry a.k.a. Jamacian sorrel. I started some of these seeds a little late as I just discovered it. Has anyone tried this plant? WOW!!! What is this? It's a fruit or what? This flower is very beautifull!!! It is a type of hibiscus that flowers in the fall. When the flower dies, the calyx is edible and supposedly tastes like cranberry. It is used in tea. Celestial seasonings "red zinger " I think. I may or may not get production because of late planting. If I do I will send you seeds for next spring. If not we will have to wait one year :( I will overwinter a couple of the plants in pots just to be sure because I planted all the seeds I have. |
lionhound (OP) User ID: 625009 United States 07/07/2013 02:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! [link to www.floridasurvivalgardening.com] Quoting: lionhound Florida cranberry a.k.a. Jamacian sorrel. I started some of these seeds a little late as I just discovered it. Has anyone tried this plant? WOW!!! What is this? It's a fruit or what? This flower is very beautifull!!! It is a type of hibiscus that flowers in the fall. When the flower dies, the calyx is edible and supposedly tastes like cranberry. It is used in tea. Celestial seasonings "red zinger " I think. I may or may not get production because of late planting. If I do I will send you seeds for next spring. If not we will have to wait one year :( I will overwinter a couple of the plants in pots just to be sure because I planted all the seeds I have. Also you can pop them in the freezer until you are ready to eat them. |
Undestroyer Truth User ID: 36045365 United States 07/07/2013 03:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! Pigeon peas are an easy way to add to your food security. Pigeon peas are a staple food that provide good protein. Not only are they delicious, they are prolific and easy to grow. Although it is a subtropical plant, it can be grown as an annual in colder climates. It proudces pods with edible peas in eight months and grows 12 ft within a year. Quoting: lionhound But there's more. This is a nitrogen fixing plant. It improves the soil. It can be used as a cover crop or planted near fruit trees . The branches are used for mulch or can be fed to livestock. Chickens can eat the green peas. (Or cooked peas of course) . [link to www.tropicalpermaculture.com] I hope everyone will take a close look at this amazing plant. Thank you op. 5 star and then some. You cannot destroy my vision when you see my vision undestroyed because I am just an undestroyer. Thread: Food Combining Made Easy by Herbert Shelton a progenitor from the Natural Hygienist Movement "I am a hunter of peace, one who chases the elusive mayfly of love... errr something like that." -Vash the Stampede |
lionhound (OP) User ID: 625009 United States 07/08/2013 12:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! Pigeon peas are an easy way to add to your food security. Pigeon peas are a staple food that provide good protein. Not only are they delicious, they are prolific and easy to grow. Although it is a subtropical plant, it can be grown as an annual in colder climates. It proudces pods with edible peas in eight months and grows 12 ft within a year. Quoting: lionhound But there's more. This is a nitrogen fixing plant. It improves the soil. It can be used as a cover crop or planted near fruit trees . The branches are used for mulch or can be fed to livestock. Chickens can eat the green peas. (Or cooked peas of course) . [link to www.tropicalpermaculture.com] I hope everyone will take a close look at this amazing plant. Thank you op. 5 star and then some. You are welcome! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 43012506 Portugal 07/08/2013 02:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! [link to www.floridasurvivalgardening.com] Quoting: lionhound Florida cranberry a.k.a. Jamacian sorrel. I started some of these seeds a little late as I just discovered it. Has anyone tried this plant? WOW!!! What is this? It's a fruit or what? This flower is very beautifull!!! It is a type of hibiscus that flowers in the fall. When the flower dies, the calyx is edible and supposedly tastes like cranberry. It is used in tea. Celestial seasonings "red zinger " I think. I may or may not get production because of late planting. If I do I will send you seeds for next spring. If not we will have to wait one year :( I will overwinter a couple of the plants in pots just to be sure because I planted all the seeds I have. Well i thank you so much! Ypu are such a friend! I have to see what i will send you too... This site on florida survival gardening is amazing... but your weather is even better than mine! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 43012506 Portugal 07/08/2013 04:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! you know this one? Germinating a hamburger bean Here's another shot of the hamburger bean (Mucuna urens) I showed you in my previous post on drift seeds: And now here it is a week after I sawed a notch in it with a pocket knife, soaked it for a day or two, then put it in moist peat moss and vermiculite: See the little root peeking out? And how weirdly black and swollen the bean looks? That sucker took on a lot of water (and piercing its seed coat was no easy feat). I replanted the bean after the above picture and let it alone for a few more days... until a shoot rapidly emerged from the ground. And I do mean rapidly! It grew about 12" in a couple of days and started rotating around in a circle looking for something to grasp. It moved so fast that my wife and I sat on the porch and watched it make an entire rotation in about an hour. I stuck a little pole in for it to grab... which it did - and twisted itself completely tight to it within another hour's time. From what I read, this particular bean grows many tens of feet into the air... reaching the top of tall trees... so I have no idea how I'll be able to keep it contained. I'd like to raise it to a point where it bears beans of its own, but that will mean protecting it from frosts this coming winter. Here it is now: Mucuna urens is a close relative of the velvet beans (Mucuna pruriens) I've been growing but it's apparently even more tropical. Who would've thought you could find a bean on the beach and grow it? I picked these things up dozens of times without ever thinking about germinating one. There's a first time for everything, I suppose. And even if this doesn't do anything for my "survival gardener" cred, it's at the very least a rather satisfying experiment. [link to www.floridasurvivalgardening.com] |
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lionhound (OP) User ID: 625009 United States 07/08/2013 08:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! Protecting moringa trees from frost [link to www.floridasurvivalgardening.com] Quoting: Luisport I will do that for my primary moringa plantings. The others I will make a mound of sand around the base like the citrus growers here in Fla do or a mound of used horse stall bedding. The later will produce heat (hopefully not too much heat, a little risky but worth a shot) |
lionhound (OP) User ID: 625009 United States 07/08/2013 08:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! I read somewhere the green pod inside the Florida cranberry calyx can be fed to chickens. you only eat the red calix? The green pod is edible too but I cant wait to try the cranberry calyx. I hope it does taste like cranberries and can be baked into orange cranberry muffins. |
lionhound (OP) User ID: 625009 United States 07/08/2013 08:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future! you know this one? Germinating a hamburger bean Quoting: Luisport Here's another shot of the hamburger bean (Mucuna urens) I showed you in my previous post on drift seeds: And now here it is a week after I sawed a notch in it with a pocket knife, soaked it for a day or two, then put it in moist peat moss and vermiculite: See the little root peeking out? And how weirdly black and swollen the bean looks? That sucker took on a lot of water (and piercing its seed coat was no easy feat). I replanted the bean after the above picture and let it alone for a few more days... until a shoot rapidly emerged from the ground. And I do mean rapidly! It grew about 12" in a couple of days and started rotating around in a circle looking for something to grasp. It moved so fast that my wife and I sat on the porch and watched it make an entire rotation in about an hour. I stuck a little pole in for it to grab... which it did - and twisted itself completely tight to it within another hour's time. From what I read, this particular bean grows many tens of feet into the air... reaching the top of tall trees... so I have no idea how I'll be able to keep it contained. I'd like to raise it to a point where it bears beans of its own, but that will mean protecting it from frosts this coming winter. Here it is now: Mucuna urens is a close relative of the velvet beans (Mucuna pruriens) I've been growing but it's apparently even more tropical. Who would've thought you could find a bean on the beach and grow it? I picked these things up dozens of times without ever thinking about germinating one. There's a first time for everything, I suppose. And even if this doesn't do anything for my "survival gardener" cred, it's at the very least a rather satisfying experiment. [link to www.floridasurvivalgardening.com] I've never heard of it. Soon I will be visiting a south Florida beach where I grew up (gulf side). I will look for drift seeds. |