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judyofthewoods

Joined: 29 Jan 2005
Posts: 804
Location: Pembrokeshire

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 07 9:58 pm Post subject: Re: Todays harvest

cab wrote:

Foraging books seem to copy bland but readily identified things from each other. Or, worse, nasty edible things. Rats tail plantain and rose bay willowherb, why even list them as edible when they're so very biter?

Knapweed has to be really young. Then its still not worth it, but it ain't yucky.

The very young shoots of Rosebay Willowherb are quite acceptable, not at all bitter. The knapweed was not very young, but not flowering either, and extremely bitter (ugh to me). I agree, plantain (Ribwort is what I tried) is very bitter, but so good for you, that its worth considering. There are few wild greens I would consider tasty enough as a pot vegetable, but mixed in with other food will add a nutritious extension. Edible and palatable don't always go together, alas, and people's tastes and tollerance vary too. I guess it all depends on your reasons for eating wild food, and under what circumstances.

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18409

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 07 6:37 pm Post subject:
More wild redcurrants, and a surprise encounter with next-door downhill's bull, last seen very purposefully heading up the (public) road towards next-door uphill's heifers.

toggle

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 11622
Location: truro

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 07 8:05 pm Post subject:
ok, mixture of foraged and off the plot, a couple lbs of baby onions, they are just gonna rot in damp soil, so i'll eat em now. a handful of thyme, to go with onions in a stewpot. a single radish, semi obscene 8lbs of blackberries 10lbs of small plums

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 07 9:03 am Post subject:

toggle wrote:

a single radish, semi obscene

Enough to enter in the rude veg competition?

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11405

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 07 9:25 am Post subject:
A neighbour has just asked me what some trees in her back garden are and can she do anything with the fruit. She has a plum, damson and greengage - result

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45426
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 07 3:57 pm Post subject:

Frewen wrote:

A neighbour has just asked me what some trees in her back garden are and can she do anything with the fruit.

She has a plum, damson and greengage - result

I take it you told her "No, nothing at all, let me pick them and dispose of them for you"

dottyspots

Joined: 28 Jun 2007
Posts: 286
Location: South Yorks

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 07 10:17 pm Post subject:
We managed 5 blackberries Mind you, there's a shedload of fruit ripening so I'll be going back regularly to make sure I stock up.

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 07 2:24 pm Post subject:
More bilberries - just a couple of handfuls in passing, cos there's too much else to do.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 07 2:34 pm Post subject:
I wish we got wild bilberries here

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11405

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 07 6:28 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Frewen wrote:

A neighbour has just asked me what some trees in her back garden are and can she do anything with the fruit.

She has a plum, damson and greengage - result

I take it you told her "No, nothing at all, let me pick them and dispose of them for you"

Of course I didn't - I offered to show her how to make jam and wine with them.

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