What have you discovered growing in your yard?

[nayeli]

There's lots of edible things growing around in our field, when you can identify them-lambsquarters, yarrow, chamomile, dandelions. My favorite is this plant that tastes a little like broccoli, asparagus, and spinach. There seems to be so much more flavour to it than the store bought veggies. I like to boil them and make the broth into ramen soup, and eat the leaves with some salt. I don't know what it is exactly, but me and my brother have been eating it for years now, so I'm pretty sure it's safe lol

Do you garden? How did you start out trying the mystery plant?

 

[mtgrl]

I walked into the kitchen one day and my brother was sauteing them and he asked me if I wanted to try this wild vegetable he found growing in the field that tasted like broccoli.

I've never had much success gardening because we have so many grasshoppers, but I aim to try again this year.

 

[FVRM]

I walked into the kitchen one day and my brother was sauteing them and he asked me if I wanted to try this wild vegetable he found growing in the field that tasted like broccoli.

I've never had much success gardening because we have so many grasshoppers, but I aim to try again this year.

you should let your chickens eat them

 

[mtgrl]

Yep, that was the plan. Now that I have the quail flock, it should cut down the insect population in the garden a little.

 

[lazy gardener]

Can you please post a pic of your wild broccoli/asparagus/spinach green?

 

[mtgrl]

I don't have a camera at the moment :/
It grows on a single stem about a half foot tall with lots of spinach-like leaves on it and broccoli-like buds on the top. The tiny flowers are white when they blossom.

 

[HerbGir1972]

So far my only rouge findings in 2014 are a volunteer tomato in my front Bean pot. (very vigorous)
A sunflower beside my front porch
and a curcubit of some sort in my glads ( I think maybe a pumpkin)

I fight for my garden back each day from the weeds,
I do let the wild blackberries come on, because although
just a small bit of culinary lovliness, I do make just about 2 quarts of
wild blackberry jelly or syrup from what ever I can get

We get about the same amount of jelly from the wild muscadine vine in the neighbors'
shrubbery.
I hope to get to pick some cultivated muscadines, and aybe pull off a few extra
pints of jelly, to make it thru the winter.

 

[mtgrl]

Nice. I wish we could grow berries in our yard, the ones we plant always die. There's lots of berries just down the road in the woods, though.

Strangely, there's big bright red poppies starting to pop up in the middle of our back field now. We don't know where they came from or how they're surviving out there, but it started with one flower last summer and this summer it's spread to 5.

 

[nayeli]

Nice. I wish we could grow berries in our yard, the ones we plant always die. There's lots of berries just down the road in the woods, though.

Strangely, there's big bright red poppies starting to pop up in the middle of our back field now. We don't know where they came from or how they're surviving out there, but it started with one flower last summer and this summer it's spread to 5.

Maybe get a spring from the berries down the road?

 

[mtgrl]

A spring?