“Have you ever grown your own chickpeas (garbanzo beans)?
I had never thought of using any of my store cupboard seeds in my vegetable patch until last year.
Never having seen them available in a seed packet, the thought of growing my own never occurred to me, until I grew another batch of (food cupboard) organic chickpea seeds in my sprouting tower last year.
Seeing all those life-giving shoots appearing out of the seeds, I decided that I would take a couple of the chickpea sprouts and chuck them in some seedling soil. Which I did. When they started sprouting small leaves, I planted them in the old bath here in my town garden, and forgot about them…”
