Bev, I'm waaay behind on answering stuff.
We had our second Healthy Harvest seminar today, and I talked about
how I start seeds and brought up this technique. I learned from one
of the attendees that supposedly you can mix buttermilk and lichen in
a blender and paint it on rocks to make it grow and "age" the rock.
Legumes have many different flowers types, so it's not always easy to
recognize them. For instance, the fuzzy flowers of sensitive briar
or mimosa don't look at all like a sweet pea or lupine flower, which
don't look like an orchid tree (Bauhinia sp.). But one thing almost
all have in common is a joined stamen-filament. In other words, if
you dissect the flower, the stamens look like matches all attached at
the bottom instead of separate. We mostly recognize legumes by their
fruit, or pod. But some aren't as readily recognizable, for instance
the curled burr that comes off burr clover doesn't look like a pod.
--Sage
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