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PROP STYLIST: DAN PELOSI

FOOD SPECIAL Bloomberg Pursuits May 4, 2020

The Garden in Your Pantry

Seeds out of stock? No problem. Look no further than the kitchen for this

year’s crop. By Heather Arndt Anderson Photograph by Gabriela Herman

BEANS

If you can’t get a $3 packet

of seeds, just grab a few

of your favorite dried

Rancho Gordos

and poke them

into the soil.

Mung beans

(far left) are

even better: You

can eat them

as sprouts.

MUSTARD

The mustard seeds you might have for

home pickling won’t produce the ruffly

leaves you’re used to seeing braised

with bacon in Southern cooking, but

the smaller leaves still pack a peppery

punch. And they grow fast.

CORIANDER

You might have

already bought

whole-seed spices

for, say, a homemade

curry. Save a few to

sprinkle over soil

and pat them down

gently. A couple

of weeks later,

you’ve got a

little lawn of

cilantro.

GROW FROM SEEDS

GROW FROM PRODUCE

GOJIBERRIES

Becauseweneedsuperfoodsmorethanever,

right?Picktheseedsoutofdriedberriesand

givetheshootsa trellistoclimb.

KABOCHA

ThefirsttimeI realizedI

couldmineseedsfromstore-bought

producewaswhenakabocha

squash volunteered itself in

my compost heap and vined up my

cedar hedgerow. They’re prolific.

PEPPERS

Youcanscoopthe

seedsoutofa bell

pepper—Irecommend

striped Holland

varieties—but try

walking on the wild

sidewiththeseeds

ofa jalapeño,poblano,

orhabanero.

Even dried

chiles work!