When I went to check on my Frostweed this morning, I found this on my Turk's Cap. Is it a seed pod? If so, when do I harvest it? There were a couple of them on the plant, too.
Turk's Cap Seed Pod?
Turk's Cap is usually perennial so they will come back in spring. You can try planting the seeds if you dont like eating the fruit. We have tons of fruit in my yard still and I just love it. It tastes like crunchy Watermelon. Someone told me that the seeds were too hard for them but I have never found one where they were not easily crunched up.
Eat them when they are red and not green.
This message was edited Dec 27, 2010 2:28 PM
I didn't know they produced fruit! That's kinda exciting. This one was kinda soft and mushy, though, so I think I'll pass on the eating part. Maybe DH will venture a try.
Or make jelly.
Ours here froze and now thawed into mush. Should be fine for the seeds, but probably not the most hygenic to eat.
Yes you can eat them, but that is the seed, sort of like a little apple, you can harvest now and clean out the seeds, they can be winter sown.
Josephine had told me earlier they were editable and I have tried them, not much of a taste to me. I would have love to know that as a kid and had them available. LOL! I used to go into the veggie garden with my cousins in LA and pick lima beans, radishes, onion, and anything else that was there. We took over an old wire chicken wire coop, built a fire and cooked those beans for an hour or more but they never got soft. LOL!! I am sure we ate them anyway. We always climbed up in a mulberry tree and ate those for dessert! LOL!
I suspect yours was frozen and thawed. Why dont you try some next summer and fall when they are at their best?
Now that I know it produces these things, I'll look for them before it freezes! LOL