Welsh poppy seeds....

[Tooty Fruity]

Hi there,

We've got those Welsh poppies (Meconopsis cambrica) sprouting out all over the garden, some have got heads full of lovely black seeds already, apart from making teeny weeny maracas - what can be done with them? Can they be eaten ??

I've read that it's just the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) seeds which are edible.

[Snadger]

As far as I can gather you're right, it IS only the opium poppy seeds that can be eaten. That's why I'm growing them, Shirleys papaver mixed!

[Flummery]

At least, that why he SAYS he's growng opium poppies. Honest, officer!

[Snadger]

At least, that why he SAYS he's growng opium poppies. Honest, officer!

Funny you should say that Flum, in some states of America it's illegal (a sick bird?) to grow them!

[Paulottie]

Yeah well, prohibition has never worked, It would be fine as long as they kept there joyless laws there but they feel they must police the world. I thought that was why we stuck em on the Mayflower? ...imagine a bloomer without poppy seeds...Huh!

Grow them? they do that themselves! The thought police would have some sickle work at the bottom of my garden...looks a bit like Afghanistan!