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| wildfoodie |
late summer greensDontcha just love it when you see the young shoots of nettles chickweed and deadnettle in August looking for all the world like they are spring plants! hooray for a couple of wet summer weeks which are doing great things to the blackberries too... well, time for a fruity forage for me - catch y'all later!
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| gil |
Yes, the new nettles are looking good here too.
Snap Cap : time to pick and try  ?
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| mushroomhead |
have you tryed fat hen?Ive never tryed fat hen and wondered if it is worth trying? I found a patch the other day and wondered how long the season lasted for this wild green?
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| Kinnopio |
Fat hen's excellent, we had some on our wild food course, you can pretty much treat it like spinach (and many people think it tastes better!). We had ours in a veg terrine. | ||||
| tahir |
I'm one of them |
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| dpack |
second groth of watercress . | ||||
| wildfoodie |
fat hen is my holy grail of summer wild greens... better than spinach by far! | ||||
| wildfoodie |
gil what is this please? a fungus? |
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| cab |
You should come and weed my allotment then. I lose a fair proportion of everythng I sow to fat hen germinating faster and smothering my seedlings! Tasty, though. Plenty of watercress around, fat hen of course, late re-growth of cow parsley, nettles, some hogweed, chickweed... plenty to eat
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| wishus |
What was this wild food course? |
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| Kinnopio |
What was this wild food course?[/quote]
It's run at Impington College/School near Cambridge, ten weeks in the Spring and ten weks in Autumn. It's a great intro to wild food, I'm hoping to do the Autumn course.
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| cab |
I think Wildfood Junkie just might be able to give you some details on that course... | ||||
| wildfoodie |
Yeah I thought it was mine! Autumn course starts 19 September I think (tuesday eve definitely, ) go to http://www.camlearn.net/course/course.php?id=00000018102&az=true&list=W§ion=1 registration is tricky as no one answers the phone much, but send me a pm a with your name and a contact number and I will forward it to the office. | ||||
| kyoto |
Wild food courseHas anyone heard of similar courses being held in the london area? Would definitely be interested! |
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| Treacodactyl |
Snap Cap is a member of this site and, I think, Gil is suggesting he tries nettles. I'm not sure if he's been called a fungus before. 
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| Gavin Bl |
Re: late summer greens
So, spelling this out for a novice like me - I can make nice nettle soup like I did in the spring? ta Gav |
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| cab |
Re: late summer greens
If you can find some nice fresh green nettle growth, then yes you can. Tops of the plants tend to be most tender. |
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| dpack |
ugh nettles
fat hen is good so is goose grass . |
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| judith |
Is it? I've got loads of that. What do you do with it? |
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| sally_in_wales |
I never got the hang of goose grass, cooks down into green string for me, obviously doing something wrong 
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| cab |
I find it handy to use as 'natures string', I grab handfulls of it to keep bunches of wild greens together while foraging. Other than that, its hideous, imho. I can stomach it when its really young, sweated down with some browned onions. |
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| judith |
Oh well. Perhaps I'll give it a miss then.
It does make very good string though, as you say. |
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| cab |
I'd wait to see if dpack has any secrets for making goosegrass tasy. | ||||
| Gavin Bl |
really, I found nettle soup to be a revelation (a nice revelation too, not the horned beast breathing fire variety) |