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lupin pods
charles armitage
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I have some lupin pods but they have not yet gone brown will they still ripen? I am wanting to plant them from seed
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They should go brown over summer, be patient, they will just go all manky if you pick them too early.
Ive never done anything pre sowing, but some chip wirh a pen knife, some rub with sand paper, it really is up to you, why not try all and see what works for you, hope it goes well
To be fair there is no wrong way, we all do things that arent right and have fab results, just trial and error like everything else.
One of the first jobs I was ever entrusted with in the garden was shelling the lupin seeds. My grandma had cut the stalks of seed pods when they'd gone brown but before they'd started to open, then she hung them up in the porch to dry.
When the pods were dry they started to open and that when they were laid on newspaper and I had the job of opening the pods and putting the seeds into brown paper bags.
When Ma found out she was cross because she was worried that I might have eaten them, but I said Grandma had told me they would make me sick so of course I wouldn't eat them!
I was four.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It takes you back to the time when there was more common sense about
In the sticks near Peterborough
ho I do love lupins I have them all over the allotment . so easy to grow but the dreaded greenfly do like them