What are you harvesting/foraging/found?

[Martin Mikulcik]

Very nice harvest of Tomatillos. Do you make Salsa Verde?

Yes!

The full sumac harvest, enough for a few dozen gallons, more than I'll drink.

Baby corn

 

[Oliver Buckle]

If you got the rain this weekend, the bright yellow mushrooms coming up now are chanterelles, really easy to spot and identify and got vitamin a and taste good too

Picked them in Austria when I was a teenager on holiday, wonderful in scrambled eggs.

 

[Meadowlark]

Calling @Martin Mikulcik and/or any others...

I found these "beans" deep inside a natural bog on my place the other day and wonder if you and/or anyone can Id them? AI seems to fail thinking it is Magnolia, which it is not.

ID? Are they eatable?

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

@Meadowlark
Idk but if i have to guess

Texas Mountain Laurel
Highly toxic but supposedly fragrant and ornamental

 

[Meadowlark]

It is early for gathering okra seeds, but I like to let one early plant go to seed to guarantee I get some of these special seeds. I call them "heritage" seeds as this story will explain:

The story behind these seeds:

"The story begins in 1968 when Malcolm and Delphine Beck purchased their farm in Comal County, Texas. While exploring an abandoned garden, they discovered giant okra stalks with the fattest pods they had ever seen. They saved the seeds, replanted them, and found the plants produced big, fluted, tender green pods in abundance on sturdy stalks. The variety’s easy-to-harvest nature earned it the nickname “snapping okra.”"

But the story goes on:

Friend and member @Chuck actually got some of these seeds from Malcom Beck personally when @Chuck resided in that area of Texas.

And now the story finale:

Several years ago, @Chuck gave me some of these seeds and I have been growing okra and saving these seeds every year since. In fact, one year @Chuck ran out and I returned the seed gift favor to him so presumably he is still using these heritage seeds.

One plant has produced several thousand seeds as of today and I will likely save more...in case anyone wants some.

p.s. @Chuck feel free to correct me if I stated it wrong.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

It is early for gathering okra seeds, but I like to let one early plant go to seed to guarantee I get some of these special seeds. I call them "heritage" seeds as this story will explain:

The story behind these seeds:

"The story begins in 1968 when Malcolm and Delphine Beck purchased their farm in Comal County, Texas. While exploring an abandoned garden, they discovered giant okra stalks with the fattest pods they had ever seen. They saved the seeds, replanted them, and found the plants produced big, fluted, tender green pods in abundance on sturdy stalks. The variety’s easy-to-harvest nature earned it the nickname “snapping okra.”"

But the story goes on:

Friend and member @Chuck actually got some of these seeds from Malcom Beck personally when @Chuck resided in that area of Texas.

And now the story finale:

Several years ago, @Chuck gave me some of these seeds and I have been growing okra and saving these seeds every year since. In fact, one year @Chuck ran out and I returned the seed gift favor to him so presumably he is still using these heritage seeds.

One plant has produced several thousand seeds as of today and I will likely save more...in case anyone wants some.

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p.s. @Chuck feel free to correct me if I stated it wrong.

It's still early here and my plants are small but i can attest it does snap very easily and is fatter than average

Also
I tried burdock root recently and it is reminiscent of okra in flavor very earthy and can't quite decide whether i like it. I need more roots

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[Martin Mikulcik]

American elderberry

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Becks right

Abashi bitter melon

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

 

[DiggersJo]

... day time drinking again @Martin Mikulcik - tut, tut...