What are you harvesting/foraging/found?

[Meadowlark]

Dock and Polk are two of my favorite greens...never tried eating alfalfa.

No one has mentioned Polk. Been getting bunch of it.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

May apple in bloom

 

[Meadowlark]

Here you go @Sheal . The makings of a fine salad...pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)

 

[Sheal]

I don't think so @Meadowlark...

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[Meadowlark]

Grew up on it...ancestors lived on it...just use the young tender stuff...

• "Young shoots and tender leaves — These are the most palatable and are traditionally used in Southern U.S. cuisine as “poke sallet” or “poke salad.” They have a mild, grassy flavor and are rich in vitamins A and C, minerals like iron, calcium, and potassium cysalad.com+1.
• Mature leaves — Can be eaten if young enough and cooked thoroughly, but they are less palatable than spring shoots"

Elvis couldn't possibly be wrong

 

[roadrunner]

Here you go @Sheal . The makings of a fine salad...pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)

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I get no less than about 10 of those plants every year in my yard. I do eat weeds, but I don't eat pokeweed, simply because it's too much work, but I have eaten it in the past.

It serves several other purposes in my yard, provides shade for plants that can't handle Florida Sun, Feeds the soil with its deep tap root, the small flowers attract wasp, which keep tomato horn worms virtually non-existent, I use it as a chop-and-drop and the berries attract birds.

One of my favorite summer weeds plants.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Star of bethlehem

No don't eat it. Yes it's a bad weed here

 

[Sheal]

Grew up on it...ancestors lived on it...just use the young tender stuff...

• "Young shoots and tender leaves — These are the most palatable and are traditionally used in Southern U.S. cuisine as “poke sallet” or “poke salad.” They have a mild, grassy flavor and are rich in vitamins A and C, minerals like iron, calcium, and potassium cysalad.com+1.
• Mature leaves — Can be eaten if young enough and cooked thoroughly, but they are less palatable than spring shoots"

Elvis couldn't possibly be wrong

I'd be hard pushed to find it here, let alone eat it.

But Elvis calls it "Polk"?...

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[Meadowlark]

I'd be hard pushed to find it here, let alone eat it.

But Elvis calls it "Polk"?...

Same difference...kind of like some say, "Polk salad", and some say "Polk sallet" but hardly anyone calls it pokeweed (Phytolacca americana).

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Rose of Sharon, apparently people eat the young leaves. Reminds me of bracken Fern raw, probably should cook them. I was hoping it would leaf out early enough to be worth the trouble but that's not the case

I have mustard spinach and lettuce and real spinach, which is the most overrated green, and lambsquarters, which are phenomenal this time of year, and dandelions, chicory, arugula, but i hate arugula, and swiss chard, and kale and turnip greens, and plenty of other wild choices.

And i got some little radishes ready now

 

[Meadowlark]

Agree w/you on spinach. I prefer Malabar Spinach for taste and especially for its ability to thrive here in our warm climate.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

I've

Agree w/you on spinach. I prefer Malabar Spinach for taste and especially for its ability to thrive here in our warm climate.

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I've never tried malabar but i need to

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

I sowed molokhia today, i guess it's the same thing as jute. Supposed to be slimy so idk but its another one of those hot weather greens. Probably better as rope

You can add sweet potatoes to that list as well. And they're pretty good but for some reason they turn the water basically black

I tried to grow new Zealand spinach once, didn't baby them or nothing but they died out quickly. If anyone know what that plant needs. I think they maybe dried out

I've been trying to get a good seed crop on amaranth but it seems it doesn't much like it here and the bugs really like it here. I can't get quinoa to sprout for nothing. But the native chenopodium and amaranth do really well. If i had enough time I'd try to domesticate them for grain

I want to try epazote

 

[Meadowlark]

...I want to try epazote

I've considered it also. It would thrive here but therein lies a problem. It is invasive in this climate and spreads like weeds. I would have to grow it in a container and already have too many containers growing things to look after.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Vitis vulpina, maybe there will be some for me in October if the birds don't get it all