Containment: the forgotten vitamins of your garden!

[Christophe]

I eat some dandelions and nettles from my garden for a few days... failing to no longer be able to buy fruit and vegetables without the risk of a covid! Enough to get vitamins and minerals of the first freshness!

So here are what are the other edible and nutritious plants present in our gardens? Excluding the vegetable garden, of course ...

Edit, I will gradually add discoveries to this subject.

1) Dandelions

No need to present them to you ... everyone knows ...

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Once there is one, they grow like mushrooms in your lawn, provided you are not looking to have a golf lawn !! If so, change your habits !! And Bam !

To eat raw in a salad before the flowering, otherwise it becomes a little bitter, you can then cook them and make an Ardennes salad (pisslis, potatoes, bacon ...) for example ...

The buds are eaten but not the flowers.

2) nettles

Here too everyone knows ...

Must be cooked. A seasoned mixed soup is very good.

3) The daisies

To be eaten as a salad or mixed as a seasoning.

The photo also shows plantains. Often we find the 2 together ... identical biotope ...

4) The remarkable or spectabile Orpin or Sedum (Hylotelephium spectabile)

Invasive borderline plant reproduces very well. The plant in the photo I had never planted!

Grows back from 0 each year. I put a stem of flowers from last year in front of the plant to recognize it.

To eat in salad, soup or pan-fried.

5) The Plantain

A young and an old man with "fruits" which has just passed under the mower

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Plantains reproduce fairly quickly once you have one!

The "fruit" has a very strong mushroom taste! I just tasted one!
The leaf is slightly lemony like the daisy!

6) The woodruff or scent galium or cleavers

To eat raw, cooked, in infusion or in preparation with white wine (woodruff).

It smells and tastes like raw chocolate!



Bonus: my mixed nettle soup

Here is a nettle soup simply mixed and seasoned, I added a bit of flour to add a little consistency ... I sent the kid to pick it and leaf it !! Not crazy! I still gave him good gloves eh ... I know I'm too nice!

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[Christophe]

Well ? Is there anything else?

[Ahmed]

What if we were talking about something other than covid?

[Christophe]

Precisely it is an opening to improve our eco-lifestyles!

Because you think I will not continue to eat it after confinement ???

[gegyx]

What you eat is great for everyday, especially nettle.

At the moment there are the daisies, the flowers are eaten quietly already like that on his "lawn, and to decorate a salad it's great.

1 month ago, I threw seedlings of their edibles in a corner of my ungrateful garden (bought in a sachet) .. I'm waiting
Otherwise, I like purslane that I already planted last year (Mediterranean diet, Crete)
Once I ate a salad and half an hour later I noticed a drop of 1 in my systolic pressure.

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[Christophe]

At the moment there are the daisies, the flowers are eaten quietly already like that on his "lawn, and to decorate a salad it's great.

Ah? Well, I didn't know you could eat the daisies!

Heck I mowed hundreds yesterday !!! First mowing of the year considering the depression which did not arrive the choice!

Fortunately I have lots of biodiversity areas where it must remain ... Otherwise it will be for the next shoot at worst I will look for it in the meadows nearby! But hey it's cheating! We are talking about the non-vegetable garden!

Otherwise, I like purslane that I already planted last year (Mediterranean diet, Crete)

Did not know it looks like a succulent plant? Does it grow in the "naurd"?

I have a succulent plant and I was always told that it was edible but I never tried ...

Once I ate a salad and half an hour later I noticed a drop of 1 in my systolic pressure.

It is true? Have you ever eaten salad ??????

[gegyx]

Purslane salad. I am in Loiret and it grows.
Well if you are in the countryside you can serve yourself in diversity ...
I find the daisy very fragrant.
I have violets but not perfumed.

Nasturtiums and marigolds, it's worth it to sow them.

Avoid thrush which is toxic / that's why we offer it ...

The nettles I go to look for every year on a riverside to bury with the tomato plants.
I do not eat it, because doubtful with animals (muskrats, or others / lol)
I take gloves and blouse, I cut everything with the cloth and I put in a big trash bag. At home, I empty the bag on a corner of the lawn and go with the mower on it. It's no longer available for detail

[Christophe]

Sorry Gegyx it seems strange to me too !!

Do you have a picture of your purslane ??

Here is one of my edible succulent:

It makes domes of 60-70 cm at the end of summer and makes bouquets of mini pink flowers (a few millimeters per flower) on long stems.

The stems are about 30-40 cm from the dome.

Flowering occurs in early fall.

If anyone has a name?

[Christophe]

Well if you are in the countryside you can serve yourself in diversity ...

To take stock of the "edible" biodiversity which has been little or not exploited, that is precisely the aim of this subject!

I think you understood the exercise since you already answered very well!

[gegyx]

By doing an image search your salad looks like "sedum spectabile"