Can you eat love in mist seeds?
Love-in-a-mist seeds are said to have an expectorant effect in small doses (which is used to treat coughs), but the healing effect has not been clinically proven. For this reason, to be on the safe side, consumption is not advisable. Seeds can be started indoors 4-6 weeks before transplanting outdoors but they should be sown in individual peat pots and transplanted with care. Love-in-a-mist tolerates frost so is primarily a spring and fall annual; it does not perform well in hot weather.As an annual that does not like to be transplanted, love-in-a-mist is best grown from seed. The plant easily reseeds itself and if you are lucky, the seeds overwinter in the garden and burst to life in the spring.
Can you eat love-in-a-mist?
It’s called Love-in-a-mist, also known as Nigella damascena. It is however edible (seeds)and has some medicinal properties. The nigella used for black seed oil is Nigella Sativa. The flowers, and only the flowers, in small quantities are edible. Most members of the buttercup family, including love-in-a-mist, are poisonous. That being said, Nigella damascena are considered only slightly poisonous. Nonetheless, you should never consume the whole plant.