I've done some gardening before with varying degrees of success, but an idea just hit me today while at the grocery store... They sell 1kg bags of dried beans (presumably unprocessed) for about $1.25 which is almost exactly the same price as a seed pack of bean seeds for planting. I could plant a quarter acre (more than I could ever need) from one bag of those dried beans whereas the seed pack barely covers 10x10 ft sparsely. Do any of you know if the dried beans from the grocery store would sprout and grow like "seed beans" or do they do something to them that would preclude this?
As a follow-up - If that WOULD work, are there any other kinds of vegetable or crop seeds you could think of that could be bought in much bigger quantities as "food" than as seed packets?
Things I could think of possibly -
Rice? Popcorn? Wild rice grains? Unsalted sunflower seeds?
I'm gonna try it with a handful of dried beans from the bag I got (of course eating the rest) just to see if any germinate and intend to post back here (if this doesn't get removed for being off topic).
August 05, 2018 at 12:59PM
