Spring is a great time to learn a few wild plants. In central California we are literally knee-deep in vitamin and mineral rich salad plants everywhere in the wild - tasty, too!

Wild edibles is something that scares me but I think you're right dweste, when there's so much popping up around us it seems like a great time to learn. If only Blast was an Ontario boy!

The weather here was beautiful for a while, but now it has gone back down to nearly freezing. I'm not sure what it will do to the plants this year, as many of them were already starting to bud/bloom.

One of the places I like to hike has what appears to be a patch of wild dewberries. I haven't tried them yet, as I'm not exactly an expert in wild edibles, but I would like to bring some home for closer examination. Hopefully they'll still be plentiful in summer, when they start to ripen.

Great topic! I love it. One that I am noticing a lot in my yard is weeds! Dandelion greens and broad-leaf plantain, specifically. Also, Kudzu is rampant in my area (eastern nc), and from my understanding it is also edible.

And I just found some strawberries growing in my backyard! Looks like someone threw a pot of them out (previous tenant?) and now they are growing. I never even new they came back every year. I hope the deer don't gobble them all up.

Why can't I have a little of either of that kind of luck? (Throwing something down casually and having it grow or finding lucious wild edibles like strawberries in my area.) Dandelions we have. My goal this year is to learn to identify more wild edibles around here and also to use the glorious dandelion in my cooking.

Thanks for the prod, Krista!

Bacpacjac- The berries are ironic, because I've tried to grow them several times, each was a dismal failure. Now, I'm scared to even LOOK at the ones in my yard, I don't want to jinx them. But I am going to have to at least put a little mini fence around them, or the grass cutter guys are gonna get them! lol. Hopefully my caring for them doesn't doom them!

Funny, that's how it usually works for me. If I really try to grow something, it turns out terribly. Whereas, stuff I've grown accidentally or just left alone, seem to turn out great.

One year I tossed a handful of pumpkin seeds out in the yard for the squirrels to eat and the next thing I knew I had a big pumpkin patch on the side of the house with a couple of nice looking pumpkins! A couple years later I tried planting some pumpkin seeds just to see if I could duplicate my earlier success, and all I got was a single defective looking pumpkin.

Funny, we must have the same gardening gene. Where I live, blackberry bushes are pesky weeds. I've got a patch out in the yard that I leave alone and just harvest - nothing wrong with my harvesting gene.

LOL! It sounds like we've got a lot in common.