Update: We're growing garbanzo beans (with photo!)

On an agricultural lark, Ilene and our little girl decided to put a dry garbanzo bean — you know, the kind you buy in bulk at Whole Foods — into a small cup filled with dirt.

They watered it. The bean sprouted. Eventually we moved it to a pot outside, and it grew a bit.

It flowered recently, and a few bean pods are now hanging off the plant.

Homegrown garbanzo beans in the San Fernando Valley — looks like it's going to happen.

Photo by Ilene, who's writing about what we eat at Foodspace.