Roadside fruit and picking

underlay_guru

What a bunch of willy-worries we have on here. If the safety of roadside fruit and veg are at the top of lifes agenda

There's about as much chance of anyone dying from ingestion of 'fume-poisoned' fruit, as me scoring with Keeley Hazell at the weekend!

Patchwork_Quilt

Pick from the other side of the tree?

Claire_Bear

underlay_guru wrote: »

Of course it can be eaten safely! If there was some sort of lead poisoning risk, would you not think that everyone who lived alongside a major road had major health problems?

There is a project in Todmorden, West Yorkshire where fruit and vegetables are planted in any spare piece of land in the town, including grass verges and in the centre of roundabouts. Flower beds and hanging baskets have made way for herb gardens and root vegetable platations, and the residents are then free to pick the crop for their own consumption! Check it out here:

http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk

This is an amazing idea!

I've always wondered if you could just pick and eat cherries off trees you find in the street, aren't they too pecked up by birds / eaten by insects? Also, how do you get them down, would I have to take a ladder? I'm not keen on getting loads of funny looks from passers-by :rotfl:

sandraroffey

then i too am going to follow my 'freebies!!!' instinct and pick as much as i can from the road near my daughters. people have been picking stuff like that for many years. we have all become too health and safety i think. xx

lots of fruit for ice cream making as well as jams. thanks folks.xx

Lotus-eater

My 2 pence worth is this, if I have blackberry bushes at the roadside and I have them 100 yards away from the road or more, I know which set of bushes I am choosing
So logically I will always seek out bushes which are away from the road, it's hardly any more work for me, so why not do it?

an1179

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:My friend who is in his 70's is a anatural forager and picks fruit etc. He was picking walnius from a roadside tree last year when he was challenged by a woman she said it was her tree and please do not pick from it again.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

underlay_guru

Lotus-eater wrote: »

if I have blackberry bushes at the roadside and I have them 100 yards away from the road or more, I know which set of bushes I am choosing

I would too - but only because there is less chance of being knocked over!:D

sandraroffey

nuts to that!!!!!!!