Tag: nature
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Yarrow
Another plant I really want to forage, as I’ve heard so much good about it! It’s meant to grow everywhere, so there’s a good chance I’ve just walked past it without knowing. Historically, it was a popular tobacco substitute, so if society were to ever disintegrate, yarrow could be a great thing to trade. As…
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Blackberry Plants
I bloody love blackberries. I love that they’re everywhere, I love that they’re tasty, and I love that you can make all sorts with them. It’s clear that the berries are brilliant to snack on, to put in a crumble, or to make a jam with, but what about the rest? Well, the leaves are…
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Recommended Website: Eatweedsuk
Robin Harford from Eatweeds – The Forager’s Guide to the Wild Edible Plants of Britain https://share.google/lrOffoVlTvvhwXOa8 This chap’s website is brilliant, full of knowledge! I highly recommend for anyone wanting to delve into more plant knowledge.
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Alexander
Aka Smyrnium Olusatrum This is a plant I really want to go out and find. It’s known to grow along the seaside and in hedgerows, so I need to do a proper explore along the coast. It’s meant to have green-yellow flowers that mature into a black fruit. The roots are meant to be black…
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Plant Identification – Common Sallow?
What do you guys think? I found this last year and just found the pic in my gallery, but this isn’t one I’m familiar with personally.
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Cauliflower Fungus
I found this last year when exploring the woods and had to try it. Honestly, it was lovely! Great texture, gentle flavour, it was great! It’d be a great alternative to carbs in a dish, it’s that satisfying. Apparently it’s one of those mushrooms that people can’t really grow in a controlled environment, so when…
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The Good Neighbors: A Beginner’s Guide to Companion Planting
Gardens, it turns out, have a social life. The way we tend to picture a vegetable garden: tidy rows, one crop per bed, everything in its place, is actually a fairly recent and very human invention. Left to themselves, plants grow in communities. They share resources, signal to each other, attract or repel insects, and…
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Photo time
did a quick water of the grow areas and took pictures as I went for here and my garden journal. Next month is supposed to bring us back to cold and snow. Will see how this all works out! spring peas. hard to tell but these plants are nearly a foot tall this is my…
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The Garden Journal
In this book, I write all of my findings and discoveries made in nature. I write about different plants, fungi and bugs, where to find them, how to process them, and what dangers they may have. I write about their uses and various recipes one can try for each and every one. This book, I…
