Edible weeds?

fabienne_2

ground elder young leaves are tasty in salad, in quiche and in soup. Horsetail young buds are full of silice and eated like asparagus just out of the ground. The radish like bulb of clover is DELICIOUS, but you will need to dig it out as it says in the ground when the leaves are pulled. i actually cultivate those. Keep the soil watered and they will be juicy and enormous.

squeaky

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

My husband likes it too. He's 'only' 35 though. Odd stuff. What IS burdock?!

It's a plant.

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Though I'm not sure if this is the one used for the drink. At a guess it'll be the root that is used.

cornerclose

You can eat lots of different weeds as well as some garden flowers.
Try salads with marigold or rose petals, nasturtium flowers and leaves, dandelion leaves, sorrel leaves, cowslip leaves, shepherds purse and even small amounts of daisy leaves.
Cook ground elder and eat as spinach, or if you can be bothered you can do the same with chickweed, silverweed or lesser celandine (but NOT greater celandine!).
Pickle nasturtium seeds and use like capers.
Blackberries, elderberries, hazelnuts and beech nuts are all edible.
Make jam from quinces, crab apples, rose hips and hawthorn berries.
Roots of dandelion and lesser burdock can be cooked and eaten like carrots.
Happy eating :j

SaraP

I grow wild and tame(?) or domesticated rocket in my vegetable patch. Leave the wild rocket plants to flower and seed overwinter and you'll probably be knee deep in the stuff next year and reaching for the weed killer. It self seeds very easily at least it does down here in the south of England. I'm told it grows wild all over the place on Cyprus.

Downsizing__for_sanity

Thanks Sara, and everyone else. Can't wait till spring now to see if it all comes up! However, we live in the north of Scotland, so I'm not sure - those plants were lovingly cultivated on a sunny windowsill for a couple of months first!
DFS

ixwood

Great thread. If we could have photos IDs and recipes/uses for each wee... plant, it'd be brill!

nodwah

Wild garlic or ransoms found in woodland- the leaves are delish chopped into omelettes - you can pick them up til the flowers come, after that they get tough

pipk62

Gingham_Ribbon wrote: »

My coriander has flowered. I presume I can eat the flowers?

NEVER presume, like critical1 says, some are dangerous, such as Rhubarb leaves.

A little research goes a long way, especially when shared.

Coriander flowers can be eaten, according to this site:
http://whatscookingamerica.net/EdibleFlowers/EdibleFlowersMain.htm