Spring Edibles..Found any yet?

Ive been finding morels. Ate a couple of skillet fulls and have a couple more in the fridge. They are delicious. Dip in egg and cracker meal .
 
i have been nibbeling on chick weed and hen bit, found a bunch of field cress and nettels. haven't found and morels yet but i haven't looked around for them very much spring came early this year not sure if there will be many out it's been really dry
 
Picked a bunch of ramps on Easter Sunday. Still small. We need rain to get them going. I found a health food store that will buy all the ramps I can bring in at 4$ a lb. Gonna let them get a little bigger and then harvest them hard. Loads of them around here. The garlic mustard is really taking off despite no rain.--KV
 
dipbait said:
Ive been finding morels. Ate a couple of skillet fulls and have a couple more in the fridge. They are delicious. Dip in egg and cracker meal .
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man thats great... hard to find around here. i have been keeping my eyes open for them. i am assuming we are too hot. i even checked the highest north facing point around here and notta. i want some!
 
I stumbled across some fiddleheads, I had read about them in a book i had gotten for christmas and while wandering in the woods I stumbled across these guys and it sparked my memory

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead_fern
 
I am working at a place with woods nearby and am not seeing any in my normal spots. What is your location related to the Metro N or S ? I was out today for 15 minutes and nothing.
 
willseeyalater said:
I am working at a place with woods nearby and am not seeing any in my normal spots. What is your location related to the Metro N or S ? I was out today for 15 minutes and nothing.
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Just gettin warm enough the last couple of days. This weekend should be good. I'm east of the metro, nuttin yet either.
 
Thems in the metro boys- west side... look for sun and higher elevations. None of my go to spots are hitting just yet but they're out there.
 
Wow! That sounds liek a real Morrel glut you've stumbled upon there!!

I think i need to get out and see what fun(ghi) can be had soon :rolleyes:. Although, its probably waaaaaay too wet right now.

Past couple of weeks I have been on the Ramps (Ramson/Wild Garlic) hunt and making a fair few jars of wild garlic pesto for the larder.

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Soylent Green anyone??

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I've also noticed an alternative wild edible I've never really experimented with, Jack-by-the-hedge (Garlic mustard/Alliaria petiolata). Do you guys have it over your side of the pond?

Its much less pungent than even the youngest of Ramson leaves. But still enough flavour I think to preserve as a pesto. (Heck, I gotta do something with all these Pine Nuts I bought!).
 
I've also noticed an alternative wild edible I've never really experimented with, Jack-by-the-hedge (Garlic mustard/Alliaria petiolata). Do you guys have it over your side of the pond?
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yup it's here.


Ecological Threat:
■Garlic mustard spreads into high quality woodlands upland and floodplain forests, not just into disturbed areas.
■Invaded sites undergo a decline on native herbaceous cover within 10 years.
■Garlic mustard alters habitat suitability for native insects and thereby birds and mammals.
■This European exotic occurs now in 27 midwestern and northeastern states and in Canada.
■Garlic mustard is a MDA Prohibited noxious weed (Controlled List) in Minnesota.
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