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Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 25 3:03 pm Post subject:
oh yes, I pick wild blueberries too, on the moors - known as windberries locally.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 25 3:39 pm Post subject:

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i dont get out much but in the past

whatever is near and ready and palatable if im sure of the id etc

things worth going specifically to collect include the extra delicious and have short season in specific places, bilberry especially the larger sweeter strain is one i used to seek as a purpose to be somewhere

go to forage a landscape used to include fresh shore fish and seafoods, maybe not too wise around the uk at the mo

seeds for relocation to new suitable places if they are plentiful or at risk where they are

i might look for a something in that sort of place at this time

mostly it would be graze while passing by

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 25 4:35 pm Post subject:
Similar. Will be getting some WG before long. Blackberries, etc Ceps and chantarelles if we're lucky.

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 25 9:59 pm Post subject:
Blackberries for jam, sloes for gin, some crabapple for jelly, young nettle tips for soup, elderflower and elderberries for cordials (or wine) sweet chestnuts - I could do hips and haws for vitamin cordial and good King Henry for wilted greens. I don't trust myself with mushrooms and I'm not keen on wild garlic as I ate too much one year and it disagreed with me

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6645
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 25 12:00 am Post subject:
Yeah, with mushrooms it's always good to start with harder to mess up species, like hedgehogs or chicken of the woods

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 25 8:57 am Post subject:

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In the UK lions mane is protected as not very common. We had some grow one year, but the tree collapsed and haven't seen it since. I don't forage mushrooms for the same reason others don't; not too good on ID.

I do pick blackberries, wild raspberries, wild garlic, but not often, or any other wild fruit I can be sure of. If I get to the wild strawberries before other creatures I get some of them too, but they are usually a graze as you go or share with family only quantity.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 25 11:39 am Post subject:
oh I had forgotten about wild strawberries, yes I pick them too, although the birds enjoy most of them.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 25 8:29 am Post subject:
Not sure what eats ours, but as they are in the woods and at ground level, I have always assumed it is small mammals, although I expect the birds have a go too.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 25 8:29 am Post subject:
Not sure what eats ours, but as they are in the woods and at ground level, I have always assumed it is small mammals, although I expect the birds have a go too.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 25 8:30 am Post subject:
Not sure what eats ours, but as they are in the woods and at ground level, I have always assumed it is small mammals, although I expect the birds have a go too.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 25 4:34 pm Post subject:
slugs!

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 25 9:06 am Post subject:
I wouldn't put it past them; they eat everything else, but they tend to leave parts behind for a while, so it tends to show.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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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
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 25 8:41 am Post subject:

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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: 9895
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

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