When I was in Ft . Lauderdale , I belong to a church building picnic at John U. Lloyd state park and beachcombed with my kids for a while .
We found some pretty nerveless plants – including some edibles – right there along the shore short letter . Hog plums , sea grapes , Bidens alba , some shoreline beans … gravid stuff .
But something that really caught my imagination ( yes , Chrissy – I jazz I ’m a junky ! ) were the various “ ocean beans ” or “ drift seeded player ” we found among the seaweed on the shoring .
Beach beans or movement seeds … call them what you will , they ’re really cool
Thebeach beansin the pods were establish by one of my sons further up the beach ( proficient find ! ) , but the rest of these Florida drift seed we found near the surf .
The two seeds on the top pull up stakes aretropical almonds , then there ’s a “ hamburger bean , ” then two “ sea coconuts , ” one in its chaff and the other without it .
Beach beans or drift seeds… call them what you will, they’re really cool
I find it awesome that these seeds were design to be dispersed by the ocean … what a testimony to God ’s creativity .
Of naturally , me being the works nerd that I am , I could n’t be satisfied by just picking up a few seeds and place them on a ledge as curious . Nope – I ’m now attempt to germinate these suckers .
Awwwwww yeah .
Beach beans or drift seeds… call them what you will, they’re really cool
I ’ll give you an update and some pics when I get a chance . The beach beans are already coming up and the ground beef bean has sprouted a tooth root .
Survival Gardener REPRESENTIN ’ ! ! !
UPDATE : Here ’s the berth ongerminating the beefburger beanin this photo . Also , one of the tropic almond seminal fluid sprouted and is now a huge fruiting tree inThe Great South Florida Food Forest Project . Who would ’ve thought a simple head trip to the beach would play such gardening inspiration and H.M.S. Bounty ?
Beach beans or drift seeds… call them what you will, they’re really cool
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Beach beans or drift seeds… call them what you will, they’re really cool
