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The value of seeds

I have one more seed swapping event this year – I’m off to the Harvest Veg Event 2010 in the New Forest. I have therefore been collecting seeds from my garden, and processing and packing them ready for the swap (and any ad hoc swapping!).

For the first time, I am adding MyFolia codes to my seed packets – which means that gardeners who grab one can let me know where they’ve ended up. MyFolia also encourage what they call Serendipty Drops, which is leaving packets of seeds lying around so that they can be picked up by passers-by: basically book crossing, but for seeds. I quite like that idea, but you’d have to leave them somewhere indoors or risk them being soaked and germinating in the packet….

I have found seed swapping to be a very rewarding experience. Not only do you meet some lovely, like-minded people, but you can also get your hands on seeds that are hard to find elsewhere. And there’s something about swapping seeds that gives them more value. When you’ve bought a packet of seeds, and it was cheap and it’s got thousands of seeds in, then there’s a tendency not to worry about over-sowing, or letting the packet get past its sow-by-date before you use them. There’s a tendency to hoard, and collect, more than you need.

But with a packet of swapped seeds, it’s different – particularly if they were collected, cleaned and packed by hand. This adds value to them, so you’re motivated to take good care of them, sow and plant them carefully, nuture the plants and then save your own seeds to pass them on. You’ve been given a gift, and it’s important to share it with others if you can.

No doubt this mentality was widespread before the industrialization of the seed industry, and will become more important again as the environmental problems we face mean that seeds that are open-pollinated (and therefore able to adapt to your microclimate) are much sought-after.

If you’re collecting seeds in your garden and would like to join in with seed swapping, then MyFolia is one place you could start. You could also add yourself to the Blogger Seed Network. There are plenty of people out there who are cultivating extraordinary plants – unusual species, or heirloom varieties – who are more than happy to spread the wealth.

For those of you who are into South American crops (achocha, yacon, mashua, oca, etc), then take a look at the Radix blog, which is all about these potentially very productive plants – how to grow them, collecting information about how well they do in different parts of the world, and trying to breed these basic species into varieties that are well-adapted to our climate. If you’re on Facebook then you can also join the Radix Root Crops group.

London Permaculture Festival

Pete and I spent yesterday running a seed swap at the London Permaculture Festival. It was a long day (setting off at 8 am and not getting home until 6.30 pm and only eating a handful of grapes inbetween), but I met some great people.

I came home with some red sunflowers – nothing particularly special there, but I have used up all my sunflower seeds so now I have some new ones for next year. I also have asparagus lettuce (or celtuce) which (if I remember correctly) came from Hedvig who listens to the show and is from Get Growing. It’s always nice to meet online friends in the flesh, and apparently Hedvig’s introductory talk on permaculture was very popular, although I didn’t have a chance to attend it myself.

A lovely Greek couple gave me some wild radiki seeds, and described the plant to me as “like dandelions, only nicer”. Having looked it up this morning, it’s chicory.

Leyla Laksari from Haringey Council (and the Living Under One Sun community allotment project), left me with some intriguing seeds that she recognised from her native Iran. One is a sour cherry (A kit teh) and the other is a plant that bears orange fruits that are good for diabetes (Zul Zul-Lak). The names in brackets are what Leyla wrote on the envelopes for me, but it’s going to take a little bit of detective work to track down what they might be :)

And I met Azul from the Food in the Sky project and Rajan from Pebble Garden, and handed out seeds to people who were going to take them to Croatia, Portugal, India, Sub-Saharan Africa and Iran!

One of my favourite moments is shown in the (rather rough) photo above – a lady brought in some ornamental giant allium seeds from her garden. She didn’t know which variety they were, so packed the seedheads as they grew so people could see their size. I ended up handing out seeds on sticks, it was hilarious!

I also signed a few books and handed out a few cards, so if you have found your way here from the Festival then welcome! If I didn’t get a chance to speak to you personally then I’m very sorry, but it was such a busy day.

We packed up to come home before the start of the evening festivities, but one band played during the day and I liked what I heard, so I bought their CD – you can check out KarmaFreeLife in MySpace. Everything was live including the beat box loop they recorded at the beginning of the set :)

Pot Luck Salad

As previously mentioned I have a lot of old, often opened, seed packets. Some of the seeds will still be viable; some won’t. Today I have emptied all of the packets of leafy greens into a jar to make a Pot Luck salad mix. I will sow* some later on and see what comes up. It will make a nice exercise in seedling recognition!

If it works well then the Pot Luck salad will become like an old soup pot – always on the boil, with portions taken out and then new ingredients thrown in as they become available. Home-saved seeds may well make it into the mix later on, but for the moment this is what I included:

Lamb’s Lettuce (collected in August 2006)
Wok Brocc (T&M, expiry date lost)
Spring onion Ishikura (Mr Forthergill’s, expiry 2008)
Purslane (OGC, expiry Aug 2009)
Lettuce little gem (OGC, expiry Aug 2008)
Choi Sum Tsai Tsai (home saved)
Korean Chives (v. old)
Red leaf amaranth (v. old)
Spinach Whale (OGC, expiry Aug 2005)
Mustard Spinach (OGC, expiry Aug 2008)
Kaillaan (Nicky’s Nursery, expiry unknown)
Mizuna (free with Which?, sow by of 2012)
Lettuce Romaine Balloon (Mr. Fothergill’s, sow by 2012)
Beetroot Boltardy (BBC Dig In, from 2009 I think)
Oriental Spinach Torasan (T&M, expiry date lost)
Lettuce Bronze Arrow (HSL, no expiry date)
Head mustard (v. old)
Turnip Greens (Real Seeds, packed in 2005)
Broccoli Raab (Mr. Fothergill’s, sow by 2012)
Red Salad Bowl Lettuce (T&M, no expiry date)
Mixed Lettuce (Suttons, expiry June 2010)
Salad (BBC Dig In, from 2010 I think)
Cima di rapa (T&M, no expiry date)
Siamese Dragon stir fry mix (Nicky’s Seed, packed in 2005)
Mustard Osaka Purple (v. old)
Mizuna (OGC, expiry date 2005)

If nothing comes up, I have lost nothing. I have created space (and a little more order) in my seed box, can recycle the empty paper packets and keep the empty foil packets and plastic bags for my own seeds.

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*with all salad mixes, when you sow some you have to be careful that they come out in a mix – the larger seeds tend to rise to the top, and then you get a boring monoculture. Tip some out onto your hand and sow those, so you can check what you’ve got.

The first Alternative Kitchen Garden seed swap

On Sunday Pete and I went along to the Sustainability Centre for the Hampshire Green Fair. We took along seeds and plants and ran the first ever Alternative Kitchen Garden seed swap :)

The weather wasn’t kind – it didn’t rain, but it was breezy and cold – but that didn’t prevent us having a great time. There was a super turnout, and plenty of people who brought plants and seeds, or came with empty hands and went away with something to plant.

Pete and I are currently decluttering the house and a couple of weeks ago we cleared out a lot of old plant pots that I was no longer using. I washed all of the plastic ones and took them with us on Sunday, and they all found new homes! A lot of them went to a school gardening project, which is nice.

I met friends from Twitter and Facebook and the lovely Dawn from the Raising Seedlings blog, who not only brought seeds and plants to swap, but gave me a jar of her Glutney Chutney too!

I was very restrained and didn’t add too many things to my collection ;) but I couldn’t resist some allium seeds (the big purple ornamental ones) and lamb’s lettuce (which will be useful if the weather doesn’t warm up!) as well as a feverfew plant and a gartenperle tomato. There are also some field beans, and I may snag those to grow them for their flowers, like they do at Le Manoir so that I can keep the broad beans for beans.

There were lots of people who were unfamiliar with the seed swap idea and hadn’t come with anything to exchange, and so we collected a lot of donations. We split the money between the Sustainability Centre and Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library, who were kind enough to provide us with seeds to swap.

We had a great day, it was lots of fun, and the Green Fair was wonderful (as ever). We have been invited back to do more seed swaps there, so keep an eye out on the blog and I will let you know when they’re coming up.

Sunday Seed Swap

The Hampshire Green Fair is set in the beautiful grounds of
The Sustainability Centre

On Sunday I will be running a seed and seedling swap at the Hampshire Green Fair (as well as signing the odd book). It’d all very exciting, and there’s lots to do before then.

I’m taking the last of my spare oca tubers – they’re all well and truly sprouting now, but you can chit them like potatoes, and as long as they’re planted soon they will be perfectly happy.

I will also take along the rest of my home-saved seeds (Welsh onion, sorrel, lilac peppers, achocha) so there won’t be any more packets of those to mail out to interested people until the autumn.

As well as my own seeds and seedlings, I have had some exciting donations of seeds from seed companies. There have been contributions from Victoriana Nursery Gardens of seeds that would be good for little fingers to plant. Chiltern Seeds have sent a wide-ranging collection of herbs, vegetables and flowers, and I have just received a bumper collection of heirloom seeds from the lovely people at the Heritage Seed Library.

I’ve also got some odd packets of seed that were freebies, and I’m welcoming all contributions to the swap. But if you don’t have any spare seeds or seedlings to bring along then that doesn’t mean you can’t take part – I’ll have a charity pot and a small donation will allow you take home something new :)

The Sustainability Centre and a charity called Elizabeth FitzRoy Suppport who work with adults with learning disabilities are creating a gardening project onsite, and my intention is to donate any leftover seeds and plants that they can use to them.

So, if you’re in the area on Sunday, come and say hello!

Product Review: Garland Super 7 Windowsill propagator

Up until last year I’d never used a heated propagator – I’ve always found that seeds germinate at room temperature, although they may take a little bit longer. Even pepper seeds, supposedly easier to germinate with ‘bottom heat’ came up just fine on my windowsills.

But last summer I succumbed to temptation and ordered myself a Garland Super 7 Windowsill propagator. I tried it pretty much straightaway, with the fairly predictable result that my seeds fried in the hot days with extra heat. I put it away.

I got it out again a couple of weeks ago and decided to give it a second chance during cooler weather. I sowed seven different pepper seeds in its little trays, and switched it on.

I also sowed one pepper seed in a pot, in an unheated propagator, as a control – and that’s how I know that the seeds in the propagator aren’t going to germinate. The one in the pot, the one which should take longer, came up a couple of days ago. There are no signs of plant life in the propagator trays – all it seems to have encouraged is fungus gnats, whose maggoty offspring have no doubt eaten any roots that did manage to emerge.

I had doubts as soon as I opened the propagator box. It’s a low-cost model, which means that it doesn’t have a thermostat. It’s either on, or it’s not – but it doesn’t even have an indicator light to show that it’s working. The plastic lids don’t grip onto the plastic trays, which makes it almost impossible to move the trays about without knocking the lids off. There’s no space for labels, and you’re not supposed to get the base unit wet, so you have to remove the trays to water them. I may have been able to live with all of those issues if it actually helped raised seedlings, but it doesn’t.

So my electric propagator is being cleaned up so that it can find a new home and I’m going back to the low cost, low tech and carbon neutral method of my non-electric propagators. If you really, really, really want an electric propagator then my advice would be to save your pennies long enough to buy a decent one with temperature controls.

Sowing New Seeds

Amaranthus hypochondriacus

If something involves seeds and unusual vegetables, it’s bound to attract my attention, don’t you think?

Garden Organic’s new Sowing New Seeds project has three years of funding from the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food Scheme with the aim of helping gardeners, allotment holders, schools and community groups in the Midlands to grow exotic crops that aren’t normally seen in the UK.

Over the next three years the plan is to:
• Collect, increase and make seeds of exotic crop varieties available through Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library to safeguard them for future generations
• Gather information on how people are growing these plants in the Midlands, and the story behind them
• Publish factsheets on exotic vegetables
• Publish an exotic crops grower’s guide
• Set up an exotic crops demonstration garden at Ryton Organic Gardens
• Hold seed swaps, community events and demonstrations

To do all that, they’re going to need our help. Think if you (or somebody you know) grow anything different or unusual which might be a non-traditional plant. Tell as many of your allotment or gardening group colleagues as possible about the project. Act by growing an extra plant just for seed this coming growing season. If you haven’t got time or space, donate a seedling or cutting to somebody else who might have room.

Sally Cunningham (she wrote Asian Vegetables) is one of the people behind the new project and she sent me a PDF copy of their explanatory leaflet, so if you would like more information about the project you can download it here. She also says that some of these exotic plants should be on display at Ryton Organic Gardens later this year, so keep an eye out for them if you visit.

2010 Alternative Kitchen Garden Seed Swap

It’s Seed Swapping time again! This year I am only offering home-saved seeds from my garden here in Oxfordshire, UK. If there is more information available on the seeds elsewhere on this site I will link to it; if you want to ask a question then you can email me. I only normally send seeds to UK or European addresses. If you’re elsewhere in the world and would like to discuss the possibility of a swap then email me.

What would I like in return? Probably nothing (which makes this more of a free seeds giveaway than a swap!) because my seed box is bigger than my garden – but regular visitors to the site will know that I have a soft spot for unusual edible and otherwise useful plants, so if you think you have something that will catch my eye than let me know.

To claim a packet of seeds, email me with your name and mailing address. First come, first served. When they’re gone, they’re gone!

I am part of the Blogger Seed Network, a worldwide list of independent bloggers interested in the free trading of seeds.

The Seeds

Dwarf marigolds, which I use as a companion plant for peppers and tomatoes, and which are good for wildlife.

Good King Henry

Achocha – a climbing, fruiting vegetable that’s one of the Lost Crops of the Incas (seeds saved in 2008, not 2009).

Welsh onions, a perennial clumping onion with flowers bees love.

Sorrel

Calendula, the pot margiold. An edible flower that’s also a good companion and a wildlife favourite.

Flat-leaved parsley

‘Lilac’ peppers

French bean ‘Aiguillon’

Goji berries

White alpine strawberries, originally grown from seed supplied by Patrick from Bifurcated Carrots last year.

Oca, scarlet or white

And I have one packet of melon seeds saved from a friend’s melon last autumn. He wasn’t sure which variety it was, but it was productive in his greenhouse (in a poor summer) and he thought it was very tasty (I’m not a good judge of melons!). Oh, and the flesh was orange :)

2010 UK Seed Swaps

Here’s a list of the UK seed swaps I know are running this year. Don’t forget to check they’re still on before travelling a long way to an event, and to see whether they have any restrictions on the seeds you’re allowed to bring along. If you’ve got an event that you’d like to add to the list then either add it in the comments or email me the details and I will add it.

January

Chorlton Plant (and seeds and magazines) Swap
Saturday 30th January 2010, 2pm – 4pm

12th Annual Hampshire Potato Day
Sat 30th & Sun 31st January 2010, 10am – 3pm

Crediton Seed Swap
Saturday 30th January 2010, 11am-2pm

West of Scottish Seed Exchange Network Seed Swap
30th January 2010, Noon-3pm

February

Forest Row Seed Swap
Saturday 6th February 2010, 10am – 1pm

Lewes Seedy Saturday
6th February 2010, 10.30am – 3.30pm

RISC Seed Swap, Reading
13th February 2010, 1pm – 4pm

Minehead Seed Swap and Potato Day
February 13th 2010, 10am – 1pm

Transition Horsham – Seedy Saturday
Saturday 13th February 2010, 10.30am – 2.00pm

Transition Tunbridge Wells Seed Swap
Saturday 13th February 2010, 10am – 12 noon

Kew Bridge Eco Village Seedy Sunday
Sunday 14th February 2010, 11am-3pm

Seed Swap Herefordshire
20th February 2010, Saturday 10 am – 3 pm

Fordingbridge VegEvent 2010
Saturday 20th February 2010, 10.30am – 3.00pm

Hartfield Horticultural Society Seed Swap
Saturday 27th February 2010, 10am-2pm

Totnes Seedy Saturday
27th February 2010, 11am til 3pm

Carmarthen Seedy Saturday Spring Fayre
Saturday 27th February 2010, 10am – 3pm

Arundel Agenda 21 Seed Swap
Sunday 28th February 2010, 1.00 – 3.30pm

Seedy Sunday Machynlleth/ Sul yr Hadau
Sunday 28th February/ Chwefror 2010, 10.30am – 4pm

Stonebridge City Farm Seedy Sunday
Sunday 28th February 2010, 12- 3pm

March

Bedford Seed Sharing Saturday
Saturday 6th March 2010, 9.30am – 12.30am

Kingston’s 2nd Annual Seed Swap
Saturday 6th March 2010

Winchester Seed Swap
Winchester & Itchen Valley “Grow Your Own” Day
7 March 2010, 10am until 1pm

Sow, or throw?

As a prelude to planning my 2010 garden, I have been doing a stock take – creating an inventory of my seed collection in Bento which allows me to search on keywords such as ‘Oriental’, ‘Tea’ and ‘Edible Flowers’ and means that I don’t have to keep lists of plants lying around or in my head.

Until yesterday I’d been cataloguing the new seeds, the ones just lying around. Yesterday I started in on my seed box, the old seeds – and I found out just how old some of them are. I have seeds almost back to when I started gardening, and lots of packets of seeds that are past their Sow By date.

Old seeds are a problem for gardeners with small gardens, or gardeners like me that want to grow new things every year – there’s never enough space to sow all of the seeds in the packet. If you have gardening friends or go to lots of seed swaps then you can give away your excess; you could also donate them to a local school garden or a gardening charity like Thrive. However, no one is going to want opened packets of out-of-date seeds.

So I am trying to work out what to do with them. Seeds have a definite lifespan (and there are tables where you can look them up), but I could do germination tests on all of these packets and see whether any of them are still viable.

There are various different types of seed here (and I haven’t finished going through the box yet, so the pile will grow), but I could try sowing all of the leafy veg seeds in a big pot and seeing what comes up. There may be some plants fit for human consumption, but plants that we eat only when they’re mature (like calabrese and broccoli) could provide the chickens with a supply of greens as well.

Some of the organic seeds might be suitable for sprouting, but non-organic seeds are not as they will have been treated with nasty chemicals like fungicides. With things like peppers I could just sow them all and see what germinates, then sow fresh seeds if I don’t end up with enough plants. I seem to remember reading something somewhere about someone (Bob Flowerdew?) using old seeds as a free green manure.

It looks as though a variety of approaches are needed to deal with my old seeds – unless I just cut my losses, throw them away and start afresh this year.

What do you do with your old seeds?

Seeds of Italy open days

Time to plan your seed orders

I’m really quite excited because Seeds of Italy (who are fans of the show :) are having some open days in the run up to Christmas. They’re opening up their warehouse and letting people in to wander round and browse the goodies to their heart’s content. They do some lovely stuff – I’m still trying to find a suitable place for a truffle tree, and they do seed mixes for pet food and unusual things like risotto rice and barley and … well, if you like growing unusual things you should check out their catalogue.

When you see Seeds of Italy seeds for sale in garden centres, they only stock a small portion of the range, which means if you want any of the odd stuff then you have to put in an order via their website. Which is no problem, but if you want to avoid the postage costs and have a good nose around then perhaps the open day is for you. Here are the details from their email newsletter:

“We are pleased to invite all of you to 3 pre-christmas Italian shopping events where you are welcome to come to our warehouse at Seeds of Italy in Harrow to complete your christmas shopping. illy coffee, vin brule and Panettone will be awaiting you as we show you around and you will be able to buy signed copies of our cookbook ‘from seed to plate’ personalised to your loved one, fine Italian soaps from Florence and Milan, some limited cookware from Piral of Genova, and of course, lots and lots of Franchi seeds with expert advice on which ones to choose for 2010.

Nearest tube is Harrow and Wealdstone (Bakerloo line) and we are 5 minutes walk, out of the front of the station (where the shops are), turn right to the bridge, right and walk down the hill and 2nd left into Rosslyn Crescent where the costcutter is. Half way around, you will see Phoenix Industrial Estate and we are the first unit on the left, unit A1.

The open days will be held on Saturday the 28th of November between 0930 and 1600 with parking directly outside for a limited number of vehicles, and then again on Friday the 18th of December from 1600 to 2030 and again on Saturday the 19th of December from 0930 – 1400. Some items will be discounted on the day and with no P&P, you could make some good savings too! Why not order your goods in advance for collection and we can even wrap them for you!

If you can’t wait, then you can see us this week until Sunday the 8th of November at Spirit of Christmas at Olympia and then again next week from Friday 13th-Sunday 15th November at BBC Good Food (Masterchef live) at Olympia and the Italian Christmas bazaar on the kings road on the 1st and 2nd of December at the old town hall, Chelsea. We look forward to seeing you there.”

I’m currently in negotiations with Pete as to which event we can attend :D

Book reviews

Doesn’t time fly? It’s been around 3 months since the UK publication of The Alternative Kitchen Garden: An A to Z, and the latest news is that it will be available in the US from February 2010 (although Amazon UK and the Green Shopping Catalogue both ship internationally if you want a copy before then).

If you’ve already read the book, would you consider writing a review? If you have a website/ blog of your own then you could put it up there and I will link to it from my Books page. If you’re an Amazon shopper, you could write an Amazon review. If you don’t have an online presence as such then you could email me your comments and I could put them up on the Books page.

If you let me know that you’ve put up a review I will happily say thank you with a gift of home-saved seeds from the Alternative Kitchen Garden (if you’re in the UK) and/ or a signed book plate to stick in the front of your copy.

Oxford '09 Get Together

FoGroBloMe ’09 (the food growing bloggers get-together) took place on Saturday, at the Restore Café in Oxford. Once again the event was well-organised by Patrick of Bifurcated Carrots, and we are all very grateful for his efforts.

First to speak this year was Michelle of Veg Plotting, who told us all of a trial she had taken part in this year to try growing potatoes in Air Pots – pots with holes in the side that aim to develop a healthy, fibrous root system via ‘air pruning’. She was not impressed with her potato yield from the pots, which are probably better used for their original purpose which is keeping trees happy in pots for longer.

I was up next, talking about the Grow Dome and the chickens, and if you really want to you can head over to Soilman’s blog and watch a little video of me talking.

Ben from Real Seeds gave a short presentation on why GM crops are bad (for the low down, check out the Real Seeds 2008 newsletter, there’s a really good diagram that Ben recreated for us on the ‘Soup of the Day’ chalk board).

Vickie from Garden Organic explained a bit about the work of the Heritage Seed Library (HSL).

Dr Simon Platten from the University of Kent gave a very interesting presentation on his anthroplogical study of local allotment sites – and he also brought along his collection of French bean seeds that I saw at Kew in March.

Tom Wagner of Tater Mater gave a very detailed presentation on his work breeding new varities of tomatoes and potatoes (with the aim of conserving genetic traits from old varieties and landraces by bringing them forward into new varieties and also to increase the nutritional value of the varieties we eat).

What with the seed swap and the pot luck lunch (I made hard boiled eggs!) you can see that we had a really full, interesting and fun schedule.

I came home with two new things to try – Patrick’s litchi tomato seeds and two cloves of elephant garlic that I have potted up this morning.

(Look back at FoGroBloMe ’08.)

The Alternative Kitchen Garden Seed Appeal

I’ve talked before about the Millennium Seed Bank and the important work they are doing in preserving the world’s wild plant species from extinction. Some of the seeds are stored in their facility at Kew’s second garden in Wakehurst Place (Sussex, UK) and others are collected and stored by Kew’s partners across the world. (There was a lovely article about one group, in Botswana, in the Observer in July.)

Yesterday, the MSB announced that it had reached its first major milestone – seeds have been collected from 10% of the plants. The next milestone is in 2020, and aims to collect 25%. However, there is a problem – there is a lack of funding to continue the work.

The MSB is now asking for donations, and if you are so inclined you can adopt a seed for £25 – which might be the perfect gift for the gardener who has everything.

I am sure you share my feeling that this is an important cause (even though, we know, it is a safety net and not the entire answer to species extinction). Many of you will be saving and sharing seeds at home, helping to protect the biodiversity of our familiar crop plants and ensuring that heritage (heirloom) varieties are passed down through the generations as they have been for centuries.

And so I think that together we could go one step further and save an entire plant species. The list of species that is currently available for sponsorship includes edible and useful plants that should appeal to AKG listeners. The cost of sponsorship is £1000 or £2000, depending on which species is chosen. From the current list I would choose Origanum syriacum (the most economically important edible wild plant in Lebanon) if we hit £1,000 or Oldfieldia dactylophylla (a multi-purpose fruit tree from south central Africa), if we can raise £2,000.

And so I have begun something new to me – an Alternative Kitchen Garden Seed Appeal. I have a JustGiving page, which means that you can donate via credit card or PayPal, and means that you can be sure that the money raised goes directly to Kew. If you’re in the UK and you would prefer to send a cheque then send me an email; once it arrives I can add it to the total.

If we reach our goal then our sponsorship of a species will be recognised on the electronic touch-screen register at the MSB in Sussex.

Thank you!

Mystery Seeds

Do you recognise these seedpods? (You can click through for a larger picture.)

I collected them from the garden earlier in the year, and I left them on the side in the kitchen so long that I have forgotten what they are. They’re from a plant that wasn’t abundant in the garden, which means that it could be an ornamental rather than an edible.

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