Searching for Wild Strawberries
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Two and a half hours, and several miles of walking in the woods, just to find less than a handful of tiny berries. Was it worth it? Yes, I think it was.
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I know you have a small garden, so here's an interesting fact for you: if grown in close proximity, wild strawberries will hybridize (cross-pollinate) will common (domestic) strawberry cultivars and the resulting fruit is much more flavorful than normal strawberries, albeit a bit smaller (though still huge compared to the purely wild berry). The wild pollen is far more potent/fertile than that of domestic cultivars, so cross-pollination usually goes only one way, altering the domestic plant fruiting. Also, if properly cared for in a garden, starting from the second year the wild strawberries will grow a bit bigger than what you find in the forest (not by much, but noticeable), without altering taste or fragrance.
You can spread wild strawberries without unearthing the wild plants simply by picking sprouts (runners) that have already started forming a secondary root, this doesn't hurt the plant whatsoever. To keep the sprouts alive during transport (if you're more than an hour away from home) keep them in a container half filled with moist cotton wool. At home you just place the sprouts on top of a well watered patch of loose soil in a semi-shaded area, sticking the forming roots a few millimeters into the surface. Success rate should be over 50% (depending mostly on your gardening skills/knowledge) and you take care of the growing plants in exactly the same way as domestic strawberries.
That's cool. I planted lots of wild strawberries in my garden but the fruits are sour. I'll try this method.
@@justbuns6404 you sure they are wild strawberries and not mock strawberries?
@@xitro20xx yea, wild strawberries are sweet
Thanks, I have wild strawberries growing in my tiny front garden, Ill try this
Not in my experience, I tend to a lot of gardens that have masses of wild strawberries and cultivated ones in close proximity and the fruits of both always seem unremarkable
I was part of the team that coppiced the section at 08:00! Was there with Sparsholt College at the end of last year. Nice to see people enjoying the Crab Wood : )
I never usually leave comments.. And this will probably sound quite strange, but I just felt compelled to let you know that you are helping me through a deep depression after the loss of my mother last year. As a 30 year old man living on one of the biggest council estates in Europe, I feel on the surface we have very little in common, however I find myself drawn to your content, and find your videos incredibly therapeutic. Shrimp I thank you!
He is very relaxing to watch, I've just lost my dad, it's bloody hard. Hope you're doing OK 😊
Does anyone else live vicariously through Atomic Shrimp’s nature videos?
Yes,does anyone not 🙂
Lately yes
Soon I'll be moving to a lovely forested area, but until then I'll keep on getting my nature immersion from Shrimp.
I live in the northwest of England, it was like he was walking through my back garden......
Translation…any other lazy bastards in the comments? ☝️🙋🏻♂️
There's selfheal growing in my yard. People call it a weed, but it's hardy, it's happy to stay low to the ground, and the little flowers are pretty. It's not very aggressive, but if you divide a patch of it and plug it into a bare spot, it settles in nicely.
The bees like it too
So lovely to see another video like this with you and Eva on a walk. I'm becoming increasingly disabled and unable to enjoy the local nature as much as I used to, yet I swear I can practically smell the woodland again when I watch these. :) Thanks for the joy.
I really enjoyed that walk in the forest with you and Eva. I’m unable to do this sort of walk nowadays and need to rest for several hours each day, so just like others have said, I’m enjoying a lovely day out in nature, vicariously.
As you discovered the other berries, I thought to myself, “ooh, summer pudding”! But the scones looked wonderful too and just what I fancied. I might have to make some to go with my wild strawberries growing here in my garden, between cracks in paving slabs. Thanks to the birds I imagine! I get half a dozen every few days - it’s been a good harvest this year, for some reason.
Thanks for all your hard work on our behalf x
ye these are great, surprised u guys dont have more of them, poland is absolutely swarmed by them, and i have them both in my garden and my grandmas garden and its quite impressive how many fruits it gets per season per ''bush''
Lol
Yeah, you can find them along forest paths as well
Lots of them in Estonia
Those tiny scones with tiny strawberries and cream made me so happy.
Eva has so much personality, I love her!
We had a whole bed of wild strawberries growing in my garden when I moved in. We managed to save a couple of plants for hanging baskets & they put out SO many runners - far more than cultivated strawberries.
A really delicious way to cook with them is to throw a handful in an apple crumble. The strawberry flavour is so strong it only takes a few to transform the apple into something even more tasty.
Fascinating. 🍓 My neighbours and I all have them growing wild in our gardens on the Sussex coast throughout the summer, and you're right about the intense flavour 😋
Absolutely I now have limited mobility. I found long country walks so beneficial to the mind and soul. It's almost like being there with Atomic Shrimp. Thank you so much.
when I lived in the Moscow suburbs a long time ago, my grandpa and I would get these in ~1L buckets and eat them mixed with yogurt for breakfast. It seemed like they're just as popular as normal strawberries.
You are from russia?
So much fresh soft fruit in my garden this year its all gone nuts with the heat and rain, I have black currents, red currents, strawberry's, gooseberry, logan berry, tay berry, and goji berry yes they do grow very well in this country.
Wild strawberries used to grow in abundance in our backyard in the summer. Based on your description, I think the way my dad tended the yard, he was probably creating the perfect environment for them.
If you ever have the chance, many places in Ireland, especially in the west coast where the areas are more wild, you can find an abundance of wild strawberries. There's even bigger kinds that grow near the coast on leeched soils just before the beaches. They have very pink flowers. I managed to get many wild strawberries from both places.
There are such places in Norway as well. “Abundant” still only means at most a litre if you’re _really_ lucky and persistent, but still definitely more than a handful.
This video put me in a good mood 🤗🙂😘
And once again I have learned something interesting in an Atomic Shrimp video!
In German, red currants are wether called "Johannisbeeren" or "Ribiseln". Reading the latin name, "Ribes rubrum", I think I know where the latter name came from. 👍
Also I learned where espially to look for wild strawberries. I've always loved them, and when my sister still had a garden, they could be found among the ivy there.
Since these times are over, I suppose I have to go foraging into the woods myself! They are absolutely worth it! 😋
Ribes is the botanical genus that contains redcurrants, gooseberries and blackcurrants - the plant name is also the origin of the name of a popular blackcurrant cordial in the UK called Ribena
@@AtomicShrimp A cordial is kind of a syrup, if I understood that right from your video with the elderflower cordial?
You always remind me of my late mum when you do such things...
Foraging for bear leek, fungi, wild berries, seashells or herbs was something she always did, as well as making elderflower cordial and cooking jams or chutneys. She also was a very experimental cook, as you are.
And she knew a lot about plants and gardening! (While I rarely inherited any of this talent. Through my life we had a lot of times when my mum said f.e., "Look, what a beautiful peony over there!", and I would look to some plant on the left and say, "Oh, yes, nice!"
And my mum would say: "It's on the right, Darling!" 🥰
She also was a very crafty person, and projects like the seashell-mold or making special keys with resin would have been very much like her.
That, of course, are not the only reasons why I am such a big fan of your channel, but it is a very important part!
Also I very much appreciate your testing of vegan or vegetarian recipes and products. Having been a veggie myself for the last 28 years, it's always a good and interesting input. And although not all of the stuff you try is available in Germany, some is the same, and this also helps me to look for new products.
And I love your humour, and the scam videos are educational as well as hilarious.
And the list goes on and on...
Thanks for your work. Honestly! I hope you will keep it up for a long time! 👍
P.S.: It is also always funny and heartwarming to see Eva. She is such a good girl, and when you play hide and seek with her, or give her her toast toll, or simply to see what a happy, healthy and lovely doggo she is, always makes my day.
Gosh you're so sweet. Sorry to hijack the thread but I just had to say it. And your mother sounded darling, I hope to be the same to my daughter. especially now that I am learning more about plants and herbs and the like at the moment.
I also share the love for crafts with resin. Have yet to try to make some, but I have so many ideas for when I do have the time and money to do it.
@@PoptartParasol Thank you so much, that's so kind ❤️🤗 I've just grown an Inch 😊
My mum was the best (of course!)
And I am sure you will be the best mom for your daughter also, the way you sound. 👍
Perfect accompaniment to my Sunday morning coffee.
We've always had wild strawberries in our garden. I think they came with raspberries from my aunt about 30 years ago. They grow great in areas where there's a bit of light but also shadow, and smell and taste wonderful, so they might be the best "unplanned" plants one can wish for.
They are really good, in Sweden we don't call them strawberry. We put them under their own name, "smultron". Sounds like a transformers character haha. We do even grow them in our gardens as a little extra treat besides normal strawberry!
It's always nice to see your uploads pop into my filter when I wake up, love your content (and of course I love strawberries haha)!
Wish I had caught wild strawberry season here in the US. I found the plants but alas was too late for berries. But I have a huge black raspberry bush in my yard that I enjoyed several fruits from. You’re definitely right about them being more tart. Enjoyed the video!
I love how the dog looks back at the start of the video like "Oh, he is just talking to himself" 😆 🤣!!
...again 😅
Evie let your hair hang down....
I remember being a very small child and finding tiny strawberries at the edges of our lawn. And then the huckleberry patches along the fence line in the slightly swampy area.
An enjoyable ramble. Good info and it's always fun to watch Eva's antics. Thanks.
Yeah, Eva is just a sweetie! She clearly understands every word, is so playful and energetic, well behaved and a big help in foraging! 😉
There are some wild strawberries growing in our backyard randomly. But they always get ruined from yard cutting. So I transplanted a couple into a flower patch. Where they actually settled in nicely
Training your perception is an excellent way to explain it. I use the same skill looking for sea glass.
I was trying to describe it to someone the other day. After you have trained for a while, it's almost like something external grabs your eye and points it at the object you haven't noticed yet.
In Canada (Northern British Columbia) we have an abundance of wild strawberries. We used to pick bowls full when I was little. They definitely are super flavorful ☺️
I'm not much of an outdoors person, I go on a short hike once or twice in a summer and it takes me eight months to think about going again. However, these videos are a true delight, I hope you keep making stuff like this!
I love foraging and one time I was with family out for a BBQ, and there was no fruit for desert. So I went for a walk and found a whole bunch of wild strawberries. I picked them and washed them, to thoroughly impress everyone after the meal. If you ever do a cake challenge again when they are in season, wild strawberry custard cake is just amazing.
I would greatly appreciate a video about the ferns you encounter in your area, if you ever have the desire to make one. Ferns are such remarkable, (very, very) old plants, and I'd love to learn about the varietals native to your neck of the woods.
Home grown/shop bought or I assume wild nothing beats strawberrys from the UK. As a kid I loved going strawberry picking, naturally you have to eat more than you pick!! Love these vids keep up the good work. When out walking the dogs I like to try and identify plants now thanks to your insight knowledge and guide.
I love Eva so much, would enjoy a video just of her antics.
Eva reminds me of my old boy, Charlie.
I always love walking through the woods and enjoying the day. It's always worth it.😊
Wild strawberries are my favourite childchood flavour! It was always such a treat to find them while foraging. Wild blueberries were more common so we could have our full, but the wild strawberries were the gold find :)
And mixing the two makes an absolutely amazing freezer jam.
oh wow, this video came at a perfect time- i serendipitously came across some wild strawberries on a walk this week and immediately wondered if you'd found any on your travels. Glad to know you too are enjoying wild strawberries!
I enjoy the intensely floral flavour of wild strawberries, but they dry out really quickly. I wonder if they could be dessicated and used as a punchy tasting sprinkle on a dessert or cake?
Never thought of this. I dried some myself to harvest the seeds a bit better, I'll keep your idea in mind as a sweet topping on a greek joghurt or something.
Maybe using some sort of vacuum, as during spontaneous drying they get bland or slightly sour, retaining just some of the fragrance (old folks used them for flavoring tea).
A bird dropped a seed on some paving in my garden, the wild strawberry plant grew through the cracks and spread quickly over the months of lockdown. This year I potted up one of the runners and I’ve had a nice little harvest of these mini delights, every 3 or 4 days. It’s true they do dry out really quickly, so I pop the tiny handful of about half a dozen into a pot of rhubarb and vanilla yogurt. They stay moist and absorb some of the sugary flavour, which is nice when I go to have a few spoonfuls the next day. Worth a try?
In my family we like to make freezer jam out of a mix of bilberries and wild strawberries. You don’t need a lot of strawberries compared to bilberries, and the mix is really special, so we reserve it for Christmas.
I planted strawberries in tubs, then left them. I thought they might die but they seemed to revert to "wild" and now they grow each year and produce small, very sweet berries. Delicious and quite by accident 😋.
They're super popular here in Sweden, and they grow like weeds in my parents' garden. Meanwhile the domestic strawberry plants my mum planted years ago are still small and few and struggling to produce more than half a dosen fruits power year.
I live in eastern Norway. And when out with the dogs today we found blueberries, and the first chanterelles(and a small sheep polypore). There's also an area with lots of raspberries and blackberries, but those mostly won't be ready for another month or a bit less if conditions are good. It's so nice when we reach the time of year when one can find those sorts of things.
Thank you for doing this video! It reminded of a cow pasture within walking distance of my parents place. Acres and acres of wild strawberries, but you could not wait for long to pick them as the owner would move his herd into that field soon after the strawberries were ready to pick.
I was so hoping you'd dig up a few plants to start a mini strawberry patch back at your home. They are so charming.
I've already got them in my garden
i live near the edge of my city (saint petersburg, russia) and sometimes i like to walk on a railroad which is nearby. near the railroad station, lots of wild strawberries grow by the side of the tracks and now i come there every early summer with a friend or my mum and we enjoy some delicious wild strawberries for free a 20 minute walk away from my home.
Do you have a Patreon or such ? Any "merch' plans? ,Or doesn't it fit into your belief system. I really appreciate you you help me so much you have no idea. Your calming, clever, honest personality is truly inspiring.
Long may you continue friend
I used to have Merch, but Teespring kept falsely flagging my designs as trademark violations (something to do with the single word 'Atomic' apparently). No plans for Patreon, as I feel it might steer me away from doing whatever the heck I want to. Thank you for your kind feedback - it means a lot to me to know people are enjoying my work!
I seriously can't get enough of this video style of yours, absolutely love it
Wild strawberries love to grow next to garden sheds apparently. Found some comparably big ones in our garden once (possibly hybrids, we used to have domestic strawberries, but the snails got to them. We also used to have a redcurrant bush in our Garden, I dont know what exactly happened, but its not there anymore. However, theres a big raspberry bush next to where it once was, so there will be no shortage of red fruit.
i love these videos! i always get so invested in them, i got so excited for you when you found the big ones, thanks for the content as always!
Great video, Mike. We had Wild Strawberries appear in our garden - possibly bird dropped. They grew, and fruited well. They then started appearing in other parts of the garden, too. Didn't mind, as the fruits taste so much better than the cultivated varieties. The next year - nothing. Every plant had refused to regrow. It's never returned.
The 'Barren Strawberry' has similar foliage, but produces hard, dry fruits - possibly one of the most annoying wild plants anywhere. The roots of Herb Bennett taste like cloves, by the way. It grows in my garden, and digging it up is no problem.
Good to see all those Ash seedlings. I hope they manage to outlive the Ash Dieback disease, and thrive. You can pickle young Ash keys, too - in the book 'A Country Harvest' there are instructions. A friend of mine made some, and they were really nice - definitely 'moreish'.
Hello!
My garden is full of what we thought were alpine strawberries, are they the same thing. And you're right, the flavour knocks a normal strawberry into a cocked hat! Love all your videos!
Alpine strawberries are a subspecies of Fragaria vesca (the European woodland strawberry) that is day-nuetral (i.e. flowers and fruits throughout the growing season) and doesn't form runners. Most wild strawberries including the common (lowland?) F. vesca run and tend to behave like "junebearers" (flowering en masse in spring and producing fruit only in early summer).
@@erikjohnson9223 thank you for that, that's brilliant! Think they must be wild strawberries as they most definitely have runners and luckily can be found everywhere in my garden. Definitely a delicious treat.
I live on an island in Finland, and we have so many wild strawberries, they are super common in the rocky and kind of dry areas, typically amongst juniper bushes. With some determination you could pick a couple of liters in a day.
As for the recurrent, as far as I know there is only one species that look similar (I don't know the English name) and they are not dangerous to eat, they just taste bad.
Very neat video. Its amazing what you can find when you know what to look for; I've found heaps of wild black raspberries nearby and they're delicious.
Herb Bennett loves to grow in the middle of my garden strawberries. Never knew what it was just that if you spot that you can often find strawberries nearby, so thanks for the ID.
I'm currently isolating in a flat with no outside space, because I finally caught covid :( didn't manage to escape it forever. Your videos are at least making my world feel a little less small. And with how ill I am they're calm enough I can actually follow along. Thank you for making such relaxing, friendly videos
same here. such lovely warm calming videos 🥰
One of the hills in my town was being mown a few years ago, so I rescued a few runners and transplanted them to some pots. Now I have enough to make desserts with and eat them by the handful.
Copse. I've come across the word in the past and knew it had something to do with stands of trees. But seeing it illustrated in this video, I now know what a copse is, instead of just a vague idea of a wooded area.
How cool that you actually made a tiny, luxurious gourmet-meal for yourself with that mini harvest. At least I consider it so. Earlier in June I found a whole field of wild strawberries outside of Vienna, there were so many that even 5 people would have to spend an hour to pluck them all. But I was alone so in only ate two or 3 hand full. Which is normally a lot. I've actually never seen so many before. Love this video, like all the others - great content as usual.
I do hope you saved some tiny berries for Jenny .
In a few weeks time go to where the wild strawberries were and pull off a little runner plantlet .planted by your garden path this will produce a lovely patch of plants in a couple of years and just picking one runner won't deplete the wild source
🙂 I didn't join Cubs or Scouts, but I was taught, that when trail walking or in the bush, you should always watch where you put your feet. And that if you want to look around, you should stop walking.
Such a happy dog
The perfect end to a lovely walk!
I found wild strawberries growing in my garden after digging a new border 😀 I used to wonder why I found so few ripe fruit after seeing the unripe ones, until I spotted my Staffie delicately nibbling one 🤣 He used to help me with the low growing blackberries as well.
Lol. Staffies love fruit. When we had our Staffie and a veggie garden, my husband once caught her picking a tomato to eat. We just laught at the situation. Such smart dogs.
Luckily I have lots of wild strawberry that has taken in the bottom of my garden. Just went a picked a small handful! Absolutely delicious
I love wild strawberries I have been picking them since childhood along with blackberries and wild currents, but to this day my favorite is still the wild strawberries.
Had one bush of these in our garden in Washington state as a kid; best strawberries I've ever had.
I know of a spot in Somerset by a cave entrance that has a profusion of wild strawberry plants growing in the rock face adjacent. Along with wild blueberry plants this makes for a lovely treat after a trip underground.
I just LOVE red currants!! I grew up in Washington state in the US and they grow wild all over! I haven't had them in probably 30 years. The wild strawberries that grew on Mount Rainier would get about 2 inches long!! I still remember that incredibly intense strawberry flavor 🍓❤
I'v found they really like growing around coal mines and their spoil heaps. Used to go out berry picking when a was a boy with my family and my mum would make jam out of them. Would still take ages to pick enough. Haha
Lovely video
Very relaxing way to spend the sunday
This is the same variety we call alpine strawberries in Australia I grew some, wow what little flavour bombs
lol just yesterday I ate a whoooole bunch of these here in finland. I know a few locations where they grow, and I was able to collect about 2 handfuls of them and I consumed them voraciously in situ!
and a little hylotelephium telephium, but I'm not quite sure what you call them in english. tastes like sugar peas when they're young.
Never knew you could find wild strawberries, I grow ever bearing strawberries every year, I have a continuous stream of them for a good 3 or 4months. Great vid
Love your channel mate!
what a wonderful place to live! but my GOODNESS, for the first one you found i was distracted and couldnt see the strawberry, but i figured when you said it was small, i was thinking an inch in size, i never would have thought BEAN size!!!!
When I was a kid I always made my mom buy Red Currents for my Gerbils, they loved them so seeing them wild is pretty awesome
Omg I just found selfheal in the front garden lol every day is a school day when you're a shrimpet.
Thank you, Atomic.
I started keeping wild strawberries in my garden a few years ago! This year it looks like they've actually gotten bigger, and they proliferate and have taken over a large spot in my garden 😀
I love how your tablecloth even has strawberries on it that's just perfect!!
and acorns! Now I imagine a huge tree with abundant strawberries high up...
Lovely vid Mr Shrimp. Watching this as I chomp on my homegrown french beans, petit pois and best of all...mushy peas grown from the dried peas from a box of Batchelors mushy peas. Love your foraging from the forest vids with Eva. Very relaxing and incredibly informative. Thanks for making these, they're great. All the best.
Loved the Rick and Morty "Lil' Bits" reference at the end lol
This gorgeous little meal would have sold for double digits in a hip cafe.
Oh man I love wild Strawberry's. In the Summer I can always find some in my Grandpa's garden.
Absolutely love these outdoor videos, great stuff. Love from Brasil
We actually went hiking to the Carpathians around the time this video got uploaded, and we saw wild strawberries, and yeah, they are quite good. And we also found raspberries,cherries and black currant
A fun fact: in Sweden wild strawberries are called smultron and since they can be hard to find wonderful and secret places are called smultronställen which roughly translates to wild strawberry places
I love these videos where I not only see the beauty of nature but I learn so much!
Love that Little Bits reference!
I was surprised more people didn't get it in the comments. I love all the random easter eggs in his videos
I enjoy watching Eva on the walking adventures hunting for whatever she finds interesting. She was cute when she started to growl. I wonder what she is looking for.🤔
I have wild strawberries in my garden. I have a fence on the side of my house that separates two lawn surfaces (better call it grass surfaces as I do nothing else than mowing them from time to time, it is as wild as it gets). All along the fence (7 m) as I cannot mowe and a lot of plants grow there without control. For 5 or 6 years now I have wild strawberries growing along that fence. More and more every year. This year there were enough to fill a mug, enough to trigger taste nostalgia from my youth (were I lived there was a slag heap from the coal mines that was full of wild strawberries (and blackberries, raspberries and mushrooms in fall). I remember when I was a child we would harvest buckets full of wild strawberries.).
I have wild strawberies growing, they're so tiny and fragile though that i drop them, or crush them when trying to pick them. The few I manage to keep however are delicious.
If you cut the scones into squares or triangles (or any tesselating shapes for that matter) you wouldn't have leftover trimmings, and you wouldn't need to reroll the dough. They do look great with the biscuit cutter, but maybe it's worth sacrificing the aesthetic for a tastier and more uniform result. Great vid, more like this please!
Atomic Shrimp, I have wild strawberries in my garden & can send you some plants if you want. They used to grow on the banks in this area of Devon in the early 1980s but have disappeared, largely, probably, due to herbicides but I am repopulating the banks locally, with wild strawberries from my garden. The wild strawberries are often hiding under the leaves. If you use a suitably shaped stick to move them it helps.
Around here we have some sort of alpine strawberry that grows in the wild, they don't get big and they go sort of off white yellow not red, they are incredible.
Here is south east Australia, if walking a track like you are on with all that scrub on either side, I'd be very wary of snakes left or right of me. Good you found some fruit.
So glad you are out and about with your Doggy friend
I love wild strawberries! My mum got some with roots and planted in the garden. We did get some fruits out of them.
I'm watching this again and I can't believe I missed the lil bits reference at 25:00 at first. Love it 😂
“Doesn’t get stuck in your lips”…is the single most amusing sentence I’ve heard this week 😂
This is a quote from. A show called Rick and Morty. Always interesting random easter eggs seem to be in all his videos