Seed and Plant Swapping

[Butch Bridges]

Bill Uhles came up with the idea of seed trading. Jill and Bill (that rhymes ) have traded some garden and tree seeds the past few weeks, and its worked out great. We just traded Bill for some Castor bean seeds. The Castor Bean tree is a beautiful tree. Below are links to pictures of Bill's Castor Bean tree at Sulphur.

www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos8a/CastorBeanTree092008a.jpg

www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos8a/CastorBeanTree092008b.jpg

www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos8a/CastorBeanTree092008c.jpg

Castor Bean seeds are kinda expensive at the Online catalogs, but we got ours free by doing some swapping with Bill. If anyone has some seeds to swap, let us know here! -Butch and Jill Bridges

[Sharon]

What are you using the Castor beans for? my mom use to put them down gopher holes to kill the varmits....

[Butch Bridges]

Since we don't have any Castor Trees growing yet, just newly sprouted, we aren't using them. But I wonder if they will work on moles? We have a mole or two digging around the north side of our house. At least they look like mole 'tunnels'.

[woodworker65]

Butch, I don't know where to find them, but a fellow in Aspermont, Texas once gave me a hand full of "black Beans". He told me they would grow like the green beans we plant in a garden except these make a bean about three foot long. Similiar to a green bean except it is three foot in length. The man told me they would not grow in my area but they sure did and did a fine job of it. We never tried cooking or eating them but they are good to eat and make great cattle food also.
Don't laugh at the comparison, corn is the same way.