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gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 9254
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sat Mar 08, 25 4:24 pm Post subject:
Mainly fruit... brambles, elderberries, apples, pears, hips and haws. The squirrels always get the hazelnuts first... Sweet chestnuts if I'm in the right place at the right time! ( Same goes for cherries!!)

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16513

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 25 8:41 am Post subject:

I used to get cherries from another part of the woodland complex we are in, but the trees are too tall to pick now and I rearely get to the fallen fruit at the right time. I used to forage apples from gardens that had been abandoned locally, but they are all built on now. If I want to make something like hedgerow jam, I do sometimes go to a green lane near us to get rowan, elderberry, and sloes, and plenty of haws around. We have rosa arvensis in the woods, so not too many hips, but have occasionally foraged them. I sometimes get to the hazel nuts before the squirrels, but a lot seem to develop as nut tree seedlings in the garden. Not sure if that is squirrels of something else burying them. In the woods it is jays, but haven't seen a jay in the garden.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9970
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 25 5:03 pm Post subject:
blackbirds have most of my wild strawberries... I k now as there was a nest right by the kitchen window, so I could see the strawberry thief at work

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16513

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 25 8:08 am Post subject:
Pity, but I am sure the blackbirds enjoyed them.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45723
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 25 2:34 pm Post subject:

Nicky cigreen wrote:

oh I had forgotten about wild strawberries, yes I pick them too, although the birds enjoy most of them.

Ours used to get attacked by squirrels, used to nibble off the seeds and discard the fruit

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44416
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 25 3:01 pm Post subject:
hide strawberries if you can live in the tree if you want to be first on the cherries

Florence

Joined: 15 Mar 2025
Posts: 142

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 25 6:29 pm Post subject:
I've a lovely fuchsia out front from cuttings off an overgrown hedge round the estate, a green heuchera (or three) pulled off someone's front border where it was disappearing in the periwinkle, a senicio (Brachyglottis (Dunedin Group) 'Sunshine' from a village cutting ... Any of these count as foraging?

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9970
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 25 7:55 pm Post subject:
it's the old saying: when is the best time to take cuttings? answer: when no one is looking

Florence

Joined: 15 Mar 2025
Posts: 142

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 25 5:34 am Post subject:

Nicky cigreen wrote:

it's the old saying:

when is the best time to take cuttings?
answer: when no one is looking

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6710
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 25 10:09 am Post subject:
Kids and I just found our first chanterelles of the year yesterday

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44416
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 25 10:35 am Post subject:
i got a small green caterpillar a couple of days ago, delicious

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44416
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 25 10:45 am Post subject:

i got a small green caterpillar a couple of days ago, delicious

the correct umbellifers are good at most times of year, wrong uns the date does not matter, you will only try them once

they are a specialist subject with assorted dangers, ID mistakes are quite easy (see only once)
the rewards of learning the bad uns and some of the nice ones is as good as learning mushroom ID for both availability and taste

angelica is a favorite of mine, anise is another, alexanders are ace for a short season and probably best avoided by the inexperienced as most of the the ones with damp or wet feet are dangeroos delux (and allegedly rather tasty, once)

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44416
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 25 10:49 am Post subject:
my last emergency medical forage after the revenge of the bait spiked me with toxic gurnard spines, pain and profuse long lasting bleeding was mended in minutes once i found broadleaf plantain, chewed it and popped it on the holes very paleo or perhaps well before that going by chimp medicine

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9970
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 25 7:27 pm Post subject:
blackberries are ripening around here now. It gets earlier every year

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