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Post by gameboy on Apr 22, 2012 14:32:56 GMT -5
www.herbsarespecial.com.au/free-herb-information/watercress.htmlI have ofter heard this was good stuff and looks like I've been walking right past it for years just like many species of mushrooms that I wasn't aware of. I found a mega patch in a small creek that is over 100yds long. Thought I would pass it on to anyone who didn't know. Been doing so much work lately with no time for "Me". Gotta get back to some wild stuff. 
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Post by DaveM on Apr 22, 2012 16:59:59 GMT -5
Thanks Mark! I try to ID and try a few new wild foods each year, and will keep my eyes open for this one. Earlier this spring I ate several big salad bowls of chickweed. As good as any other salad! And Bob, my little hazelnut trees are coming up, from the nuts I got from you and planted in Oct.  |
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Post by tonymalone on Apr 22, 2012 18:49:22 GMT -5
Mark thanks for the read, makes me want to try some, but never really knew how to use it.
there are some springs comeing out of crowleys ridge along the ms.river, that have water cress growing in them, that oughta be about as clean as you can get. don't go thru there a whole lot anymore, but use to see folks pretty regularly picking it.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Apr 22, 2012 19:00:23 GMT -5
I`ve ate it before and thought it was bitter, like too old radishes or cabbage heart. maybe it`s just a dab for taste and can`t eat a lot of it. dave, cover the poor buggars up again. our trees have leafed out and froze black going on the third time now. the seedlings won`t have the steam to leaf out again I`m afraid. well, ma natures way to cull out the ones that want to leaf early. but kinda like a mange epidemic, takes the rest too.
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Post by doyleflory on Apr 22, 2012 20:33:03 GMT -5
Yep i have picked it and think it's like a old pithy radish,but we need to know what we can eat in a pinch.
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Post by gameboy on Apr 27, 2012 16:52:08 GMT -5
Been eating the heck out of it and yes it does have a little bit of a bite to it. More peppery and a little turnip green like. They say it's really good for you.
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Post by doyleflory on Apr 27, 2012 17:53:29 GMT -5
The rich used to eat watercress sandwiches not sure if they hid a steak under the leaf or what:)
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Post by DaveM on Apr 28, 2012 4:17:27 GMT -5
The rich used to eat watercress sandwiches not sure if they hid a steak under the leaf or what:) ;D |
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Apr 28, 2012 6:43:21 GMT -5
when I was a kid I heard the rich folks eating watercress stories. I snooped around trying to find someone to buy it. must not of been any rich folks around where I lived as no one would buy it.
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Post by gameboy on Apr 29, 2012 12:13:53 GMT -5
Well I guess my secret is uncovered. Yea, I'm all festered up as now I may have to pay that higher tax rate so all us guys together can pay 4 days worth of interest on the 15 trillion Nat'l debt.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Apr 29, 2012 12:39:49 GMT -5
you mean the debt that the "progressive liberal " wracked up, the one to save us all from ourselves? maybe we can pay them off in watercress. my solution is I`m going to quit making money, then pay no taxes. see how that goes over when their spigot runs dry. wait a minute, that`s happening all over the country already. as dr phil would say, and how is that working out?
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