permaculture

["georg parlow" <georg@websuxxess.com>]

> I was reading a seed catalog today, and in its description of purple
> hyacinth beans, it said to pick and eat them while they were young and
> immature, because when mature they "might" be poisonous.

 mature beans of dolichos lablab are a traditional staple pulse, and of
course are poisonous like mature phaseolus. if you can cook the lablab into
bean soup, or if you have to discard the cooking water, i dunno.

cheers
georg