Spring Edibles..Found any yet?

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Barrabas

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Wow..stepped outside for a break here in Charleston,WV and found this Onion on the bank..amazed they are this big, this early!
Eating this bad boy tonight!
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Haven't even looked. It snowed today. The second day of spring.:confused:

For those that don't know. It's pretty common to go a year or two here with no snow whatsoever. This year has been a weird one.
 
Wild scallons are all over the place in my AO but then again they never went away. Crazy winter or lack of.
 
Wild scallons are all over the place in my AO but then again they never went away. Crazy winter or lack of.
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Now that you mention that..it make sense to me why these are so big, maybe the ground never froze hard enough here to kill them off during the winter, and they just kept growing?
It could be that I am just unobservant, but don't remember finding any that big before.
 
Green onions and chives are up and asking to be topped for potato salad, rhubarb is sprouting but two weeks out before treats. Watching for fiddleheads and nettles in the low areas and way to soon for morels.....apples blossoms are weeks away. When the apple blooms are in pre-bloom then I go to my morel spots. Asparagus follows not to long after. Love gathering some edible wild mushrooms in the fall also but that is many months away when the wild grapes will give us some grape flavored blessings to make juice with.
Went on a post supper woods walk last night with my younger son and I showed him how to use a wild grape vine for a drinking fountain. He hadn't seen that yet so I cut off a thumb sized secondary. You could set up a camp bottle to gather enough for a thirsty kid but we were just doing mini jungle man school. He was surprised it was not grape flavored, logical to him at nine years old. We then went to watch the beaver pond, saw one cruising and diving for roots. It gave us some brave salvos of tail slaps when he got close enough. Highly effective defensive technique...we stayed and watched the show. LOL My son enjoyed swishing the water edge with his "spear" cut from a popple sapling. By the time we got back to the house dishes were done thanks to big brother and little brother got to take out the recycling and trash. Back to topic, yes spring edibles are showing up and soon will be more than can be used.
 
Burdock is already coming up. I know you can eat it but I haven't yet. What would you do? Roots or shoots?
 
asparagus is coming up around here and saw 2 small morels. won't be long now till they are all up with today's rain :)
 
Picked a few morels earlier this week. I have a friend who lives in WV and he is starting to get ramps.
 
Ramps! I love Ramps. Going upstate NY this week and will stroll the banks of the Schoharie in search of em. Too early yet I think, but one never knows what will turn up.

fishiker said:
Picked a few morels earlier this week. I have a friend who lives in WV and he is starting to get ramps.
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I'm with Loosearrow, the "dandylions" are the most plentiful I've ever seen for this early here in the hills of northwest Missouri. Sauteed greens and buds for a side dish and the greens in salads and sandwiches. While they don't grow wild here, we've been enjoying our perennial (Egyptian) onions for a full month now.

Just this once, I will steal, er, uh, "borrow" another forum member's line "May the forest be with you!"

Regards,
sweetwater
 
Picked mushrooms and asparagus off and on for about 35 years now. The asparagus should be up soon around here. Some years I don't bother, but I do make a mental note went I see gone to seed asparagus in a new spot while outdoors.
 
I made up a big pan of fried taters, ramps and scrambled eggs for breakfast. The house has that good "hot breakfast" smell going. For Sunday family Easter brunch I will be adding ramps to the menu. No morels yet, still dry here the nights are to cool. I am watching for lilac and apple blossoms as my sign for morels.
 
I was up at Tea Creek near Cranberry backpacking last weekend and found a lot of ramps

Tons of them
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We stopped at this creek crossing on the North Face of Tea Creek Trail to cook some brunch
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My friend from NY was down last week and gave me this great polish sausage and I made an omlette with it, and ramps.
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As far as in Charleston I've seen a lot of shrooms coming up in the wood chips in the park by my building (Slack Plaza) but I haven't keyed any of them out yet.

PS Here's most of the pics from my recent trip there.

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I've got fiddle heads, onions, Polk, & Dandylions up in my area. I haven't seen any Morels but a good friend of mine has already ate two messes of them ? I can't seem to find any !
 
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