Marsh Samphire

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Bit late this year, usually bigger by now.

Had a small dish for lunch, boiled with some butter and sea salt added :)

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Not to be confused with Rock Samphire...

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Different family, grows on the coast but unlike Marsh Samphire grows above the intertidal zone and tastes of Pernod :sick:
 
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I love to pick it and add it to my grub :) I know it as poor Mans Asparagus, sometimes I flash fry or I just wash and eat. Lovely food to pick I just take prune the new growth and leave the little things to grow on and multiply I get it a lot grow in the coast by me and I love it(think I said that lol:rolleyes:)
 

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I prune it too Daren, some folk pull the whole plant out, but that can wreck a bed in a few seasons.

Been picking 20 years or so at this particular estuary, it's spread from a small patch to most of the length of it in that time :)
 
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I never head of it, but I guess it is UK plant. I don;t know that we have something similar in the United States, but it is a big country. I have heard of a few varieties of vegetables that grow here that are regional specialties, that were not on my radar, in fact I had never heard of them at all, so who knows??
 

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