Poppy seeds

[meggalley]

I have taken over a smallholding and it has one polytunnel full of self-sown poppies (papaver somniferum). I use a lot of poppy seeds in cooking so does anyone know if these are safe to eat once ripe and dry.

Meg

[Snadger]

Should be ok!

Poppy Seed

[nomis]

Loads of those at our plot, seems a lot of older people have plenty of them for some reason

[Caro]

Is that all sorts of poppies? I've got the small, yellow flowering one spreading all over my garden. Like a weed. I mgiht feel quite differently about it if I could harvest the seeds.

I've tried to google poppies to see if I can identify what we have. It looks like meconopsis cambrica (welsh poppy).

Any idea, anyone?

Thanks

[maypril]

It's only the opium poppy (papaver somniferum) that has edible seeds. You can usually identify it by its distinctive smooth leaves.

[Caro]

Thanks for that. Saves me poisoning myself. Which would be quite inconvenient

[basketcase]

It's only the opium poppy (papaver somniferum) that has edible seeds. You can usually identify it by its distinctive smooth leaves.

I'm sure I saw in some magazine that you could eat ALL Papaver seeds. Better dig it out

[cupcake]

According to Alys Fowler, you can eat Opium, somniferum, corn poppy,rhoea, arctic poppy ,nudicale, and all their resulting cultivars. Pretty much everything then!

[Madasafish]

Try then out on a man. If he dies, no matter....

[thegardener007]

ooo...Nasty.

[Snadger]

Try then out on a man. If he dies, no matter....

From Irene: Men have two purposes in life: reproduction and to open those friggin jars. -- Irene