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Ringo
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 09/08/2006 : 06:14:02
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.....or is there?
Apart from blackberries and rabbits is there anything else I can safely eat at this bountiful time of year. (Only joking about the bunnies!)
I tasted the pears and the black things that look like cherries growing on the trees in the arboretum but they weren't very nice. The triage nurse at A&E said I should be more careful.
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Teresa Green
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 Posted - 09/08/2006 : 08:41:16
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| the black cherry things are from cherry laurel and are poisonous!!! less of the snacking doooood. how do you make the smilies work? |
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Ringo
New Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/08/2006 : 09:14:47
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You just click on them from the left like this
Can I eat the pears or not?
I think that using the name dooood with five o's might have seriously affected your anonimity |
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andymo
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/09/2006 : 07:39:45
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 I think the safest solution to anything that looks eatable in the countryside, unless you definitely know what it is, then don't eat it !!!! Am I right Dooood ?
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Ringo
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/11/2006 : 17:01:25
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| I have just read a fascinating article in Gardeners' World page 84 about 'Natures Bounty'. Hugh Fearnley-W talks about various berries, fruits and fungi (parasol fungi, giant puffball)which you can eat. Surely we must have some Langley Park autumn produce to try out! Have we got any damson trees or hazelnut trees to plunder? |
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andymo
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/12/2006 : 12:28:48
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 Hugh Fearnley-Whittaker knows what to look for when he goes searching. I would suggest getting a good book and checking out what to look for first, there is so much that is not good for us. Mushrooms and toadstools for instance, there are loads that are edible but many that are not and as long as you are experienced in knowing what you are looking at it's ok but beware !
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twilliams
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Posted - 09/26/2006 : 04:52:20
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| Chris, The pear are actually Quince which is why they taste so bad! they need to be cooked with lots of sugar or made into Jam. If you are feeling very daring you could try the Medlars that grow next to it that you need to let partially decompose before you eat them! |
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Ringo
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/26/2006 : 10:16:17
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Right, the Medlars it is, if I can easily figure out which tree you are referring to. How long does it take them to partly decompose, days or weeks? and another question for everybody, apart from planting acorns and chestnuts or feeding them to pigs is there anything else you can do with this years bumper harvest?
I don't fancy making quince jam!!! |
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twilliams
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Posted - 09/27/2006 : 05:08:23
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| Chestnuts you can obviously roast but prick them first! chestnut stuffing is very nice, you can make chestnut jam but it is a nasty brown sludge so I wouldn't bother. Acorns are full of tanin so cannot really be eaten although native americans used to put them in nets and leave them in a fast flowing steam for a couple of weeks to wash the tanin out, then they ground then into a flour. If you find any really fat beech nuts peel them and try them they are very nice, shame they area bit small. |
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