A walk around the garden – no.6

Part of the series - Wild food in Covid times

Join me for a short walk around the edges of the garden to find some wild salad greens and flowers, the ingredients for a liqueur, frogspawn, flowers for pickling and syrup making, nut-free under ground nuts, as well as pine pollen halva marzipan, and how not to collect gorse flowers!

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Time stamps

• 0:00 Intro.
• 2:30 Hairy bittercress
• 7:33 Forget-me-not flowers
• 9:00 Beech leaves for salad and liqueur making.
• 18:00 Collecting pine pollen 24:00 Making pine pollen halva ‘mazipan’.
• 26:46 Collecting pignuts
• 38:25 Birch leaves
• 39:38 Dandelion flowers
• 40:04 Hawthorn leaves
• 40:55 Sheep’s sorrel and common sorrel
• 42:22 Frogspawn!
• 46:41 How to avoid miss-identification (Rannunculus flammula)
• 51:48 Common daisy 52:33 Gorse flowers
• 54:45 Pickling Darwin’s Barberry Flowers.
• 1:00:38 Lime leaf
• 1:02:10 Dandelion leaf
• 1:02:33 Dwarf quince flowers
• 1:03:16 Making Darwin’s barberry flower syrup
• 1:9:00 Pignut milk!

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