When you are looking around right now for what is ready to eat in your gardens, don't forget the humble orange daylily, you can eat both the roots and the flowers in a couple different ways.. If you are looking for them in your store's (asian most likely) dried, look for golden needles..
http://www.amazing-chinese-food.com/day-lily.html
I tend to keep the dishes with the flowers fairly simple, I really like the roots in stirfries, they are a bit of work to get clean and you will need a little scrubby to get them really good, still its wonderful just how early in the season you can dig up and enjoy some of the tubers, they are much bigger and fuller towards the fall of course but they are still a good very early spring food..
http://livingmydreamlifeonthefarm.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/golden-needles-harvesting-has-started/
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Very interesting...EVERYONE here has clumps of these things growing...except us that is.
The former owner here didn't grow anything except weeds!
most weeds are edible and very good for you...Indians would go into a field and see a pharmacy and a supermarket...white people see a field of weeds..I have been learning all about the benefits of what we call weeds and it is good to know how to use them for food or medicinally.
Could not agree more, most folks see weeds and in truth almost all of them have some value to them, many of them have value in a number of ways, so what is your favorite currently in season "weed" that you are putting away and for what use?
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Pineapple weed is plentiful right now..grows between sidewalk cracks and throughout my yard (has yellow mounds look like pineapple sort of)...great in a salad, wipe on skin as bug repellant and soothes bites & wounds, wonderful tea from the yellow mounds, good for stomach and calms nerves also a good sedative...I have been eating it almost daily this past week.
I picked some daylily pods after farmgal told me aout this - all ready for lunch today. Yesterday I also picked plantain - a weed that grows everywhere particularly in bad soil! I'm making a herbal oil infusion out of it - good for itchy bug bites, rashes and a host of other things.
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I picked some daylily pods after farmgal told me aout this - all ready for lunch today. Yesterday I also picked plantain - a weed that grows everywhere particularly in bad soil! I'm making a herbal oil infusion out of it - good for itchy bug bites, rashes and a host of other things.
Good to know, that's what my lawn is made up of!
I picked some daylily pods after farmgal told me aout this - all ready for lunch today. Yesterday I also picked plantain - a weed that grows everywhere particularly in bad soil! I'm making a herbal oil infusion out of it - good for itchy bug bites, rashes and a host of other things.
I agree! Plantain is great for injuries,cuts, scrapes, chew it up and put in on the wound.
Hey Denob,
I can bring you a clump of oranga daylillies to the Preppers Meet on Sunday , if you want. Just let me know on the Ontario Preppers Meeting July 15 thread......