Growing seeds to eat !!

[veggiechicken]

Looking for suggestions for plants to grow with edible seeds please
Seeds generally are a good source of protein and they pack a lot of flavour into a very small parcel. They can also be a by-product of a plant that is grown primarily for its leaves, flowers or roots. So, instead of just saving seeds (because I'm programmed to) I'd like to eat them
Here are some I know of, there must be lots more.......
Pumpkin & squash
Sunflower,
Fennel
Caraway
Dill
Cumin
Fenugreek
Breadseed poppy
Amaranth
Quinoa
Peas & Beans

[Hayley]

On the pumpkin seed front why are the shop brought eddable ones green but the ones you take out while carving your halloween pumpkin white? Are the eddable ones a different variety.

[scarey55]

Flax? not sure how easy it is to grow.
Nasturtium
Nuts, (cob nuts, almonds, walnuts, sweet chestnuts) Not sure if you meant this but I thought I'd say anyway

[veggiechicken]

The green seeds are inside the white husk although I think there is one pumpkin that produces "naked" seeds! Is it Godiva??

[WendyC]

Radish pods are meant to be nice. Never tried them but am going to let a few radishes run to seed this year and try for myself. Don't know whether they store??

[alldigging]

Fat hen is like quinoa isn't it?

[alldigging]

Radish pods are meant to be nice. Never tried them but am going to let a few radishes run to seed this year and try for myself. Don't know whether they store??

Rats tail radish are grown for their pods. You can pickle them ... which reminds me I might actually have a jar somewhere.

[snohare]

Good King Henry - straight from the Paleolithic as a crop...
Buckwheat - straight from the local Health Food shop... (unroasted )

I would be very interested in how you get on VC, I am particularly keen to grow linseed, quinoa and buckwheat (this far north I think I am doomed with sunflowers, never mind pumpkins). Emphasising these in my diet has really improved my wintertime health I think.

[rustylady]

Mustard for the seeds.

[Snadger]

Poppy seeds on poppyknot bread buns..............yum!

[BertieFox]

Never tried Good King Henry for edible seeds though we have well established plants. What do you do to prepare them for eating? Do you dry them?
The pumpkins grown for the hullless seeds are good but you get relatively few seeds from a single fruit. Squash seeds of all kinds can be roasted and eaten.
A farmer is growing a field full of buckwheat here this year, so I might creep out at night and harvest a little to give that a taste.

[Bren In Pots]

I often add Fennel seeds to bread rolls when I make them

[mothhawk]

The only others not already mentioned that I can think of are nasturtium seeds - very peppery though, and peanuts, and I think you can eat purslane seeds too. Wikipedia has a list of edible seeds but I'm not familiar with many of the Latin names listed

[veggiechicken]

Growing seeds for eating!

Looking for suggestions of plants to grow for edible seeds - other than the obvious peas and beans.

I have seeds for:-
Sesame
Kakai - Hulless seed Pumpkin
Breadseed poppy
Fennel (green and bronze)
Caraway
Black Cumin (Nigella sativa)
Sunflower
Mustard
Any squash
Coriander
Aniseed
Fenugreek
Szechuan pepper - Zanthoxylum simulans

Considering Flax for linseed.
Not sure about amaranth or quinoa.

There must be more
Any tips on growing them and is it worthwhile?

[Guest]

Sunflower
any squash seed is meant to be edible

seed pod - nasturium, radish