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- snooky
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There is a Nepalese couple on our site and the wife surprised me by asking if she could pick the Fathen growing on my plot.By all means!!.It used as a vegetable in her own country(and elsewhere in the World) and is stir -fried or steamed or turned into soup and not dissimilar to cabbage or spinach.The tenderest top 10" is used.Don't know if I am ready for it yet but I might give it a go.
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That's a new one on me Snooky for edible " weeds" but as we become a more multicultural country I think we're learning more about other nation,s ' edible plants whixh we regard as "weeds". It appears that quite a lot of them can be used as stir fry vegetwbles and I'm sure Google can point us to many sources of information.
Frankly if the dreaded oxalis weed which has increasingly invaded our garden over recent years could be culled and stir fried with acceptable results I wouldn't curse it so much.
As a matter of interest, can anybody on here point us to a good source of information on "eating weeds as food?"
Might make an interesting future article for the magazine. These are a supply of free plants I'm sure we all have access to !!
Frankly if the dreaded oxalis weed which has increasingly invaded our garden over recent years could be culled and stir fried with acceptable results I wouldn't curse it so much.
As a matter of interest, can anybody on here point us to a good source of information on "eating weeds as food?"
Might make an interesting future article for the magazine. These are a supply of free plants I'm sure we all have access to !!