Breadseed Poppy

[steev]

I think poppy seed is poppy seed; if you're wanting to harvest something else, that's another matter entirely; not to cast aspersions, but there are considerations; bullshit is very popular, regardless of its impact on individual rights.

BTW, doesn't one need a good poppy-seed grinder to make good strudel? Perhaps I'm a tad too picky.

I only ask, having been gifted with the "poppy-seed teeth catching" gene; all things considered, I prefer prune-paste; less irritating, more tasty, IMHO, but what do I know; my folks only spent a century in Ukraine, so eastern European cuisine didn't get so deeply ingrained, perhaps.

Why does it not surprise me that a boa constrictor would be an endangered species in Canada? Oh, wait, were there ever boa constrictors in Canada? Not since the Poles were temperate, I suspect; that's been a while.

[mskrieger]

stone Your poppies are gorgeous--great blog, thanks for the link. I still need to sort my poppy seed and don't usually plant until early March, due to unpredictably crappy winters and ravenous birds. My brother-in-law harvested the pods for me and didn't keep track of which ones came from which plants, so I'll be sorting based purely on size of the pod, which will probably count against the plants with multiple flowers.

However, from the total weight of the bag, the amount of seed taken in is negligible for baking purposes <sad face> The flowers were pretty but not pretty enough to take up space in the food producing areas of the garden. I'll be sowing the seed I keep in the pollinator patch, the hellstrip near the street and the orchard.

steev I had not considered the poppy-seed grinder aspect. Thanks for the tip. And bringing boa constrictors across international borders is restricted by the Convention on International Trade In Endangered Species (CITES) treaty of 1973.

[stone]

Nov 6, 2016 10:14:41 GMT -5 mskrieger said:

stone Your poppies are gorgeous--great blog, thanks for the link. I still need to sort my poppy seed and don't usually plant until early March, due to unpredictably crappy winters and ravenous birds. My brother-in-law harvested the pods for me and didn't keep track of which ones came from which plants, so I'll be sorting based purely on size of the pod, which will probably count against the plants with multiple flowers.

To sort my poppies.... I tie a bit of flagging to the plants that I wish to collect seed from.... But.... as was discussed earlier in thread, works best to remove plants that we don't want in the gene pool.

In Long Island.... you probably should plant real early in the spring, like Feb.
Poppies need to grow through a lot of cold weather... Down here, Spring planted poppies don't live long enuff to bloom... Is why we plant in October, or... just allow to self-sow.

Of course, these guys get all they want first...

[mskrieger]

Just got around to sorting and emptying my seed pods. The large pods gave a lot more seed than the small pods. A lot. A lot less work to shell them, too. So I selected heavily for big pods filled with seed. I'll grow them in with the garlic again and see if a couple years of selection changes the pod size and seed amounts. stone the reason I don't plant until March is that my garden is usually covered in snow and ice in February! Or the ground is frozen hard, at the very least. Sometimes I can't plant anything until April. As long as I spread seed as soon as I see open ground, there seems to be enough cold weather. And then they don't mind the heat when they're drying down. The pods mold in the rain but only on the outside.

Also, the color of the seed was highly variable, from light grey to dark blue to black, with a couple pods yielding purple or brown shades. Very pretty. I decided not to discriminate at all on seed color.
And fortunately, my birds seem entirely unaware of the deliciousness of poppyseed. I hope to keep it that way.

[caledonian]

Oct 4, 2012 3:35:52 GMT -5 mayz said:

the seeds used in bakery are perfectly viable.

Where I'm at, poppy seeds sold for consumption are sterilized before they're offered to the public.

You can easily buy them from a wide range of seed catalogs, even though it's technically illegal to grow them, because the law is only enforced when the enforcers feel like it. In practice, that usually means that as long as you're not growing enough to make more than a few doses of an illegal substance, you won't attract the attention of law enforcement. But it's an inherent risk.