As I've been spending a fair amount of my 'free' time working on saving seeds from the garden of late, I thought I'd show you the fruits of my labour, thus far anyway.
I'm delighted to say that I've been able to collect my first 200-odd chickpea seeds (picture right, and centre below) - нахут, or леблебия (a nod to Turkish here I think) - having nursed my approx. 50 chestnut chickpea seeds, bought last year, through to maturity. I still have most of the plants to harvest - they have some green leaflets left to wither first - so I am hoping to top 500 decent seeds for saving and resowing, and possibly even eating. This project has been a real pleasure (if a little nerve wracking at times; I've had to rush out and cover them several times to stop them getting battered by heavy rainfalls) and they are beautiful plants.
Also quite newly saved from the garden are a good number of sugar snap peas (r - pea is грах but I'm not sure how the 'sugar snap' is described here), dried broad beans (l - бакла) and green beans (far bottom- боб) of assorted colours, the latter two being generously given to us by different neighbours.
That covers food seeds for now, but I have also been collecting mature seeds from my sweet pea Matucana - which I thoroughly recommend for their beautiful, almost glowing, deep pinky purple and mauve flowers - as well as pot marigold (невeн), a small amount of peony (божур) seed from the big peony we found in the garden, an overabundance of soapwort (сапунче) and, much earlier this year, plenty of fritillary seeds.
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