Bittercress! Eat More Weeds!
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2015
- Bittercress is a common weed that can provide real food for regular people. Bittercress goes by a lot of other common names, including peppercress, peppergrass, winter cress, and land cress. These names are also used for other weeds, but they are all edible and can be used in the same way.
This video shows three 'haphazard' ways to eat bittercress. They aren't fancy, but they get the job done! 1. As a topping for a leftover sweet potato. 2. As part of an apple-cheese sandwich. 3. As a topping for an open-faced grilled cheese sandwich. As a topping, bittercress is best raw. But watch for future videos where bittercress is cooked as part of a pot of mixed greens.
Do less, get more! Let your grass grow and eat more weeds!
Bittercress: Cardamine hirsuta. Family: Brassicacae.
The UA-cam channel "Identify That Plant" has a good bittercress identification video at: • Plant portrait - Hairy... - Навчання та стиль
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Dandelions, lambs quarters, and violets.
I love your Kitty coming to visit you while at the weed pile :) We eat purslane, cleavers, miners lettuce, and stinging nettle and now bittercress!
Plz keep making weed identification vids! I love your videos!
I'm excited and watching it again because I found it in my yard
THANK YOU! I have loads of this and saw a video once that I couldn't find again and recently found your channel. Simple, to the point. Love it!
I eat purslane, lambs quarters, mallow, wild radish, mustard, spiny lettuce...
You eat the spiny lettuce? Isn’t that stuff so bitter?
You don't need to eat totally wild plants or veggies. I sow daikon seeds random and let some of them self seed. Daikon grows like a weeds. LOL
@@nickhazy The little seedlings are OK and some people make an extract, of the mature plants, for pain medicine.
@@trumplostlol3007 I eat the wild radish, greens, not the root.
I heard you can eat them peeled, but they're not very big.
@@MarcMallary You can eat everything from the brassica genus. From roots, to stems, to flowers, to seed pods. I grow kale and collard greens for 2 years and eat their stems and flowers in their second year. The are like Chinese broccoli stems and flowers. I eat daikon roots, stems, leaves, seed pods. I also ferment daikon roots and stems. Everything is definitely edible. It is only a matter of texture and your recipe. LOL Don't eat raw daikon roots though cause you may have a lot of gas in your digestive system.
Been a while! Reminded me of what to forage in the backyard today! Always love your videos! Love violets, purslane and sometimes baby plantain.
My favorite food with cornbread! We boil and saute in fatback and dress with a touch of vinegar.
That sounds like a good way to eat a lot of bittercress, Nora Scott! Thanks for sharing that. I'll definitely try that -- cornbread, too. Good combination!
Thank you. I have a lot of these in my garden
Hi, even the baked version is a great idea. A bit of cooked green leaves is always tasty.
I really love your videos.
I wonder if it does really taste bitter? I enjoy your videos and teaching about these gifts of nature
I never knew these were edible, they are just about the first growing weed that I see in the late winter/early spring. They get a stalk with tiny white flowers and usually grow in groups.
I am loving London Rocket this season
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Thank you
You always have a cat helping you.
We eat all the wild mustard, dandelion, poke, cress and the flowers too. Lots of home remedies with a lot of other weeds.
Been considering such plants. Curious how bitter is bitercress compared to other wild plants, lets say is it noticibly more than for example lamb's quarters, and is peppercress fairly more spicy than mustard? If so, then I think that would mean more nutrients, for example bitter could be calcium and potassium so the more the better. I would guess they might not reach amaranthus spinosus or a. retroflexus or even more but who knows. Of what is the most spicy brassicales, I'm not sure. Woad is one candidate for one of significance.
Great video! That is a great tip, to lay out the washed greens to be sure you are getting only the plant you were aiming for. I really like peppergrass and versions of it. The one you made with the grilled cheese, I know it wasn't your favorite, but it reminded me of goat cheese pizzas. Maybe I will try some on a pizza one of these days. I've subscribed and look forward to learning more about foraging in your location! :-) Tina
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In Australia we call bittercress flick weeds because when you touch the seed head it explodes
I was seeding Spanish, but no Spanish just peppercress growing I don't know 😂
So, I got all and make salad love to eat.😅
I also saw lemon balm
Send some edibles plant cress love to grow and eat them please. Thanks,💞 Unable to see them I live in Houston Texas
Veronica,Violets,fiddle- heads,wood sorrel,sheep sorrel,purslain,been trying to develop a taste for plantain but its like real bitter to me gonna keep trying it till i can mayby like it.
We now eat a dozen or more weeds including dandelion, purple dead nettle, chickweed, violets, henbit, purslane, lambsquarters, red clover blossoms, garlic mustard (before heat or too bitter), daylily flowers. Proceed slowly as you never know if you may be allergic to them. Do not eat them every day, mostly we eat these in the springtime before our regular crops get going though we grow garden sorrel and chives which are ready early. Dandelion flowers dipped in egg and cornmeal then fried tastes like mushrooms, just fuzzy ones, pretty good. But don't take them all they are early pollinatore feeders. I have seen early butterlies nectaring on them including Monarchs
I have a bunch of weeds in my yard that I thought were peppergrass, the leaves look right but they are tiny and very few, and in the middles are tall thin stalks with a tiny white flower on it, so I'm confused.
That sounds like bittercress, or “peppercress”. They are tiny, as she mentioned in the video, but she didn’t show any flowers. I find the cress gets a little more bitter once the flowers pop out
Mama said all the wild greens gave you good iron in your blood in the spring. She'd cook greens every day she could.
Now I know what that plant is that is growing on my plastic tote.
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Hi ya Hap! Well, I guess I’ve been nibbling on the wrong plant, that or these that u have r baby versions. My foraging book shows a plant that grows n yard. Tall stalk, thin stems going out from it with one single, leaf, I really don’t know what it’s called cause it doesn’t look like a leaf, but it does have have the same texture as purslane ? I don’t now what it’s called
Hi joy bickerstaff! Bittercress are some of the smallest kinds of wild mustards. The leaves and stems are not as substantial as purslane. But they can be big enough to be worth picking. In your book, you might check Barbarea verna, also called winter cress or yellow rocket. It is larger, has a more substantial texture, more like purslane, and a central flower stalk, too, but with yellow flowers. I have a inset photo of it in my video on wild field mustard, at 0:27-0:34. It has a lot more heat to it!
I see bittercress, purple deadneddle and grass but do you know the name of the weed with the large hammer-like leaf with 2 false leaves further down the stem that's growing in there with it?
+atripa645 There's some common nipplewort (Lapsana communis) in there, too. I'll be doing a video on that pretty soon. Let me know if that helps! : )
+HChrisH200 - Haphazard Homestead Thanks, Never seems to get to the flowering stage here. Or I haven't noticed.
atripa645 It was a new one for me last year, and now I notice it everywhere! It's pretty nondescript even when it's flowering.
I notice you pass up the purple dead nettle quite often. Any reason? Oh, I tasted bittercress today that I must say wasn’t bitter at all.
Is it bitter?
Mitch & Tay คนรักเห็ด no not at all
@@mealbla7097 thank you.
I like violets dandelion wood sorrel nettle ostrich fern plantain clovers and wild onions
You know what's good eatlng, alright, Skyroot Gere! It's amazing how many great wild plants there are. Happy foraging!
Yes the earth definately provides all we need i love it and I love your videos ,and your beautiful spirit .thankyou for all you share.
Oh, bittercress looks like watercress > I got watercress. And do you know curlycress ?
I snack it fresh. When I go out in my garden and see it. It is peppery but I like it. It has like a taste of Norstrastum.