Top 5 plants for August in zone 7: Job’s Tears
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- Опубликовано: 23 янв 2025
- I’m taking a chance on this one, considering his little I know about it! But Coix lacryma-jobi, aka Job’s Tears, has been an EASY plant to cultivate that does offer a unique attribute: beads for jewelry making! This type is not meant for eating (so don’t break your teeth!) in contrast, Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen is harvested as a cereal crop and has a soft shell.
I love the texture of this plant- it somehow manages to look exuberant and wild without looking weedy. Neat find, Brie!
"Job" in the Bible is pronounced "Jobe", so that's probably correct for this plant.
Brie this was a very interesting plant with a interesting history thank everyone that left comments for the description of its meaning. Brie you never cease to amaze to find a way to surprise us and some matter in your lovely garden thank you for all that you share🦋
Hi , I am South African , these plants grow in our rivers in an area where indigenous African folks (called the Xhosa tribe ) Live. You can look up the Eastern Cape and the above tribe .
The seeds have been used as a grain ( ground on a grinding rock with a heavy stone ) but also as beads worn by babies for teething and traditionally as beads representing “river ancestors “ .
Yes now they have become popular as fashion beads 😊
Oh thank you for this information! I visited the western cape in February and fell in love with South Africa! I hope to return next year.
I just got 5 seeds in the mail to plant and I am excited.
Where did you get your seeds, please,
I have gown Job’s tears here in Louisiana for about 20 years. I use them to make rosaries. Unfortunately I lost my plants after some cold weather :( I was so sad. I even had them in a closed in workshop cover by a double towel. I have a whole water jug full of the beads but I never started a plant and do not know if you can used seeds that have been dried for years 🤷🏼♀️my first plant was given to me many years ago already growing. Do you know if the old dried seeds can be used to grow? I’m thinking no🙈
Job is pronounced “Jobe”. It if Biblical.
The seeds taste great and are as healthy for you if not more so than quinoa. You just got to get the outer hard shell/husk off
40 years ago I purchased this plant at Taylor’s garden shop San Marcus California
I had been looking for that plant where can i get some seeds to plant because when i was a kid we used that for making rosaries, letty ,lynden WA,USA
Look for seeds from online suppliers.
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In the old testament there is the book of Job it’s about Jobs life and how he lost everything. Hence the name Jobs Tears
I would definitely pronounce it as “Jobe” and I’ve seen seeds on Baker Creek’s site. Apparently the grains can be eaten once hulled. Maybe I’ll grab a pack on my next order, just to give it a try.
I think this species is NOT edible. I noted (wrote) the name of a different species that is edible
You were right…it’s called Job’s Tears (long “o” sound)
Hello. Can you tell me if when you harvested the Job's tears, did you cut the stalks off at the ground or did you pull the plants out of the ground roots and all. I planted it this year and I cut the stalks off about 2-3 inches above the ground and like you said it reseeds but does it grow back from the stalk left in the ground or by the seeds that were not gathered. Thank you. I hope you are having a great day in the garden.
This year I’m ripping it out- from experience it grows right back if it cut it. I can’t believe how much of it I have this year.
Thank you.
You can think of them like beans, you need to put them in a slow-cooked soup!
It is called Jobes tears
The real name is Coix lachrymajobi called Job’s Tears for short
Are you willing to sell a packet of seeds through mail? I’m from Michigan so stopping by the garden open house kinda outta the question.
Also it’s probably ground up to make bread fillers and such.
I’m sorry, no nail order seed sales.
I think you were saying it correctly. I say "Jobe"
Same as Bible JOB [Job 1:1 KJV] 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Nicee👌👌👌
You were pronouncing it right. It is not the word job it is the name Job...
Can you send me some seeds? I’ll reciprocate!
It is good for weight Ioss, diabetic and it is a source of foods for the Asians
This is called Job’s tears otherwise we call it cornbeads.
I don’t get the obsession with natives. So what if it originated somewhere else as long as it’s not invasive. It’s like being anti-immigrant, but for plants.
Ha ha it’s a bit true! I think the conversation needs to be more about what service does a plant provide, not just where it’s from.
The gardening trade has driven out a lot of perfectly beautiful, useful, and easy to grow plants from home gardens. In effect, we opt much too easily for needy and too often invasive species when we could be using native species. If you don't have a grandma with a garden full of native plants that her granny grew, you'll never learn what's available and what won't eat the neighborhood 20 years from now. See also: kudzu. Everyone thought that was a great import, too.
@@SB_McCollum I hear you as my neighborhood has a nasty infestation of Tree of Heaven. I’m still going to plant both, though.
No, Job….like from the Bible ….
That's my picture, but not my comment nor my @ signature. I did not write it although I agree!...scary...some type of GOOGle agorthim at work.