Sue, (AKgardengirl) asked me what else I grew and here it is so I don’t step on the Pomegranate thread.
In this post there will be some rather strange if not out right bazaar plants and seeds that are or were used for a food source or for medicinal purposes.
First I must say if you don’t know what you are doing please don’t go out and eat this stuff.
Some of it is very much like its very poisonous cousins.
My history and experience goes back to my upbringing as a small boy growing up in the Ozark Mountains carrying a rifle at the age of 9 shooting small game for the supper table.
On these trips in the woods I was with some old timers who knew what to eat on the way.
I was also told what plants were good for certain ailments.
Finding a bee tree by looking at the bees at a watering hole and watching them fly a straight line to their tree was also high on the list of things to learn.
I didn’t think much of it at the time but they were survival skills that folk’s way back in the good old days took for granted as a way of life.
Here’s one I learned out in West Texas while stomping around in the desert.
The honey mesquite bean is a good treat when you are famished; just eat the dried sweet pulp from around the seeds and inside the pod.
The leaves are a good way to cure indigestion and were use by the natives in the area.
Trust me it works.
It has to be the honey mesquite, almost any other plant of this type will kill you or at the very least make you hallucinate and then maybe die.
Please read this, the Mesquite is one good plant.
I have plenty of these.
http://www.desertusa.com/jan97/du-smesquite.html
Next is the Vitex Plant
I have one and need more.
I’ll let the links speak for there selves.
A real good plant to grow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitex_agnus-castus
http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/bio406d/im...nus-castus.htm
I will post more later.
Worth