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Growing and eating skirret
https://www.foodforest.garden/2016/01/05/growing-and-eating-skirret/

Alexanders: the forgotten vegetable
https://www.foragingcoursecompany.co.uk/post/articles-alexanders-the-forgotten-vegetable

Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus / Blitum Bonus-Henricus / Good King Henry.
https://www.edibleacres.org/purchase/good-king-henry

Salsify — should be able to buy seeds from any seed catalog, real or online

Medlars
https://www.treesofantiquity.com/collections/medlar

Sidebar: https://www.seriouseats.com/what-are-pawpaws-wild-fruit-midwest-how-to-prep-and-eat-pawpaws

Chickweed / Stellaria media
Common Name(s): Birdweed / Chickenwort / Common Chickweed / Starweed / Starwort / Winterweed
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/stellaria-media/

Scorzonera is probably only available online, these come back from the root in at least the second year

Sidebar: Jerusalem Artichoke, which spent some remarketed in the US as “Sunchoke” (yeah, that’s a better name) is a wild-growing sunflower. The Jerusalem part is a corruption of “girasole” (sunflower, I think in Italian) and someone once thought it tasted like artichoke. The sunflower isn’t too showy and is somewhat short, but the roots are the edible part anyway. For low-sugar folks, it’s an Inulin producing plant.

Welsh Onions:
https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-welsh-onion/

Sidebar — Egyptian Walking Onions have a similar growing habit, and are what my parents used to grow.
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/egyptian-walking-onions/

Fat Hen (see above) — that leaf looks familiar, I’m sure that volunteers in every outdoor pot and garden spot.

Lovage seed should be available everywhere, if not, look online.

Sidebar: same goes for Borage.

Turnip seed should be available everywhere, if not, it’s time for this country to take a long hard look at itself. :^)
By the way, ya get the greens with the turnips.

Corn Salad / Lamb’s Lettuce / Mache
Should be easy to find among the specialty seeds, or just wander around the yard a while.
https://victoryseeds.com/products/corn-salad

Tansy should be available in the Spring as either live plants or in the seed rack.

Sea Kale, I think this was Frankie Ford’s favorite vegetable.
https://www.superseeds.com/products/sea-kale

Woad, why don’t we do it there?
https://www.woad.org.uk/html/biology.html

Turnip greens — recipes
https://www.google.com/search?q=turnip+greens


33 posted on 03/29/2025 9:44:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

If you are going to eat sunchokes start with small amounts. They will give you the wind something terrible until your body learns how to handle it.


89 posted on 03/29/2025 12:02:32 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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112 posted on 03/29/2025 6:40:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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