A year in the life of a forager....

[The Big Lebowski]

Update from today...

Sow thistle (smooth leaved)-Sonchus oleraceus
If you have been following the thread from the start, you should be able to see 4 more edibles in the picture

Treacle mustard-Erysimum cheiranthoides.

 

[Imagedude]

Are you using a tripod?

 

[The Big Lebowski]

Nope... Just freehand. The lens is IS (canon)

Most of its automatic/macro at the mo. Camera club like many things has fell on the back-burner due to work and this

 

[Samon]

great thread mate, keep up the good work!

My garden has an abundance of the chive like wild onion! there is shizzle loads of it! when I cut the grass the air pongs of garlicy chive!

I assumed it was just standard chive, but it does taste alright.

 

[The Big Lebowski]

Have a look back a page or two... Just added a piccy of some I dug up today oddly!

And, cheers.

 

[lannyman8]

Update from today...

Sow thistle (smooth leaved)-Sonchus oleraceus
If you have been following the thread from the start, you should be able to see 4 more edibles in the picture

Treacle mustard-Erysimum cheiranthoides.

come on then, whats the answer???? is it yarrow dandilion clover and plantain...

 

[The Big Lebowski]

Oooo.... Close I'll give you a clue to the third (thats not yarrow, but its very edible).

Plantain, dandilion for starters.

 

[xylaria]

fennel. rye grass.

 

[The Big Lebowski]

Good spot F, although rye grass is not one of the five

So we have plantain, dandilion, sow thistle, fennel....

A clue for the last edible then. It can be seen in both pictures, and is pretty much in the same place, but one picture shows its very distict identifying feature!

 

[xylaria]

ground ivy [i can only see it in the bottom one , and that is a bit of guess as it is a bit vague] There a white deadnettle and suspected wood vetch as well.

 

[Harvestman]

I was going to have a guess at wild pea, since there is a definite vetch-type thing in the first shot, but now I'm going to say Ground ivy, based on the purple spot in the second pic. Except I can't see that in the first pic.

There's also something with yellow flowers in the first pic, and it doesn't look like dandelion to me. Maybe Nipplewort, Hieracium spp., which is edible but not especially worthwhile...

Struggling slightly here. Is that nettle in the second pic, or dead nettle?

Incidentally, on a dead stem in the bottom right of picture one, you can see a pink, unstriped colour form of the black-lipped banded snail, Cepaea nemoralis (well it might be the white-lipped banded snail C. hortensis, but that is less common), which is perfectly edible, but a bit too small to be worth the effort unless you can gather loads of them. Mind you, they're bigger than a winkle...

 

[Harvestman]

How many edibles is that now?

 

[The Big Lebowski]

Well... your right with one of them

 

[Harvestman]

Now you are trying to be clever. Between us we've found more than you thought was there yourself.

Give.

 

[The Big Lebowski]

LoL!

I was going to have a guess at wild pea

Bottom left, blue/purple flower. (and yes, its deffo wild pea in the out of focus shot)

P.s I dont forage snails, so pardon me for not listing it!

 

[Harvestman]

What's the Latin for Wild Pea, please? (see, I'm being nice). My plants book doesn't list it under the name 'wild pea'. In fact neither of them do.

(Yeah, I'm checking up on you now )

And what was the yellow flower then?

 

[The Big Lebowski]

Wild pea (Pisum sativum) is on here... Back a page or two.

Flower for the doubters (insert mike) LoL http://www.cretanflora.com/pisum_sativum-sativum.html

Not sure what the yellow flower was, possibly a bolting hedge mustard (possibly). It would be too out of depth to ID anyhoo

 

[Harvestman]

Thank you. Otherwise known as Common vetch.

Interestingly, the descriptions of it in my two books don't match each other very well.

 

[lannyman8]

ok ok you dont need to tell me im pants at this....

if it ever come to it i would just eat everything until i died... or just eat MEAT!!!!!!!!

 

[The Big Lebowski]

Nobody said you where... But we can if you like

Joking aside, you got two!