Stuff you had no clue was edible...

[Wifezilla]

Sweet potato leaves and shoots!
I was going to throw out extra slips but out of curiosity goggled sweet potato leaves. Turns out they are a highly nutritious food! Going to have to try and cook some now


YOUR TURN!

 

[2dream]

Probably not exactly what you are looking for but I just discovered last night after looking at all the carrot greens and wonderding what I could do with them, they are actually edible (but bitter). Lots of vitamins and medicinal as well.
Some people are highly allergic so use caution. They can cause a serious allergic reaction much like peanuts for people who are allergic.
Chewing the raw greens help with mouth ulcers.

 

[freemotion]

Feta! Homemade is SOOOO different from storebought!

I never knew poke weed was edible until recently, but I missed this year again with the excitement of kidding. There is such a small window of opportunity to harvest it. I did give up trying to eradicate it, though, and will eat some eventually!

 

[Wifezilla]

You didn't think Feta was edible?

Well, I was thinking more of non-common foods, but you do have a point about homemade vs commercial!

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Ground elder......!!

You cook the leaves like spinach or kale & eat with lots of butter.........!!!



Hattie

 

[murphysranch]

Bull Thistle - even tho tiny and hard to get to cus of the thorns, the inside is like a artichoke heart. They grow wild around here.

 

[urban dreamer]

Feta! Homemade is SOOOO different from storebought!

I never knew poke weed was edible until recently, but I missed this year again with the excitement of kidding. There is such a small window of opportunity to harvest it. I did give up trying to eradicate it, though, and will eat some eventually!

I have poke weeds frozen in the firdge for later. Just make sure you cook'em right!

 

[tamlynn]

nasturtium leaves. Until recently I thought only the flowers were edible.

 

[Wifezilla]

I had been giving the hail damaged leaves to the ducks. I will be saving the nice new ones for salads.


Also violet flowers. Never thought to use those as an edible. But now that I have a nice volunteer plant in the front garden bed, I have been adding them to my greens.

 

[valmom]

A friend made violet jelly this year and we got some. It is really good, but takes a lot of violets! They grow wild in our lawn. I still haven't tried dandilion leaves- the chickens get all of those that the horses don't eat. It's hard keeping dandilions in the lawn around here!

I don't think I would be comfortable with Pokeweed- it is pretty toxic stuff Atropine poisoning isn't fun.