I'd love to take a look at any information you have about honey locust
varieties, edibility, etc., including photos.
When you eat the beans from Gallup, do you eat the pulp that surrounds
them as well? That's the edible portion that I've heard about - though
not tried yet. The pulp is supposed to be up to 30% sugar in some
varieties!
Thanks so much...
Best,
Rafter
Lisa Rollens
>Hmmm...I didn't know there was a different species of honey locust
with
>small pods. They're not black locust, are they?? Ours down here
have >large pods...16-18 inches long.
-could be black locust. I've read that there are many varieties of
honey locust and that some nurseries create their own hybrid. The
locust trees in Gallup have pods 8-12 inches long but the seed in the
pod is fat, huge compared to the 6 inch pod found in Maysville with
flat, thin seeds.
the Gallup variety seed (shelled from the mature brown pod), can be
boiled in two changes of water (to remove tannins), and then boiled
like a black or red kidney bean (which I've done -got pics if you
want). It would only take a fist full of brown pods to make a single
bowl of beans.
It's clearly not worth my time to use the Maysville variety this way.
>I picked up over 20 feedbags full and have been
>feeding them to my dairy cow all winter.
Did you pick the pods green or brown (mature)? How do the cows like
them? Can you taste it in their milk? Have you opened the pod to see
how thick the seed is?
>I have elderberries, serviceberry, chestnut, witch hazel, black
>raspberry, and gooseberries under the black walnuts
Nice! I'm not that familiar with the elderberry and the serviceberry
(though I've read about them an seen non-descript pictures of them).
If happen to have a spring, summer, fall, and winter picutres of those
two plants -I'd love to have them since they are supposed to be in
Maysville.
And thanks for the info on the locust's sex. I'll try and photo
document the plantings.
rafter t. sass
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