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Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: rover brewer on April 13, 2014, 08:29:04 am

Title: wild asparagus
Post by: rover brewer on April 13, 2014, 08:29:04 am
 I don't know if I spelled it right but is it OK to eat wild asparagus  there is some come up in the fence rows.
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: PrimitiveTim on April 13, 2014, 09:29:54 am
pictures.
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: rover brewer on April 13, 2014, 09:35:33 am
I'll have to see if I remember how to put pictures on site here but I know this I wild asparagus I have enough for a small side dish now. somehow I knew that you would be the first to respond.
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: PrimitiveTim on April 13, 2014, 10:22:28 am
Here's a lengthy article (http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/wild-asparagus-zmaz76mazhar.aspx#axzz2yluUZe2r).  There are foraging forums out there that will be able to help you out a lot better than anyone here.  Here's a list of foraging instructors (http://www.eattheweeds.com/foraging/foraging-instructors/) from all over the country.  These people are insanely knowledgeable and they could tell you more than you thought possible about any edible plant.
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: Pat B on April 13, 2014, 10:55:50 am
Read Uele Gibbon's, "Stalking the Wild Asparagus".
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Post by: JW_Halverson on April 13, 2014, 11:04:52 am
Read Uele Gibbon's, "Stalking the Wild Asparagus".

"Many parts of a pine tree are edible.  Tastes like bark!"

If you are seeing wild asparagus, confirm it with several sources, grin like a monkey and get it while the getting is good!  I can't get enough of the stuff, just love it lightly stir fried with onions and crumbled bacon. Or even just by itself.  I'll gorge on it until my pee looks like green Kool-Aid!

Congrats on a great find!  Oh, and yes, post pictures.  GPS coordinates are just as good, please and thank you!
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: Eric Krewson on April 13, 2014, 12:09:33 pm
Wild asparagus is the same as cultivated asparagus, go for it. I once lived close to a RR track that had it growing in abundance along the tracks. I heard that the crushed limestone track bed altered the acid Alabama soil ph into the perfect ph for asparagus so it thrived there.
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: Zuma on April 13, 2014, 04:25:25 pm
The oldtimers used to plant them along the fence rows near the houses and barns.
They are all over the place down here.
My only concern would be if the county or state road departments have sprayed the areas.
Best to get them small and tender. Yum!
Zuma
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: mullet on April 13, 2014, 04:49:54 pm
I hated asparagus untill I tried some growing in a ditch in Colo. I just checked today and saw what I have growing in the garden is finally coming up.
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: mullet on April 13, 2014, 04:57:18 pm
here you go
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: JW_Halverson on April 13, 2014, 06:36:31 pm
What mullet is not telling us is that he tried another Colorado ditch weed first.  Suddenly EVERYTHING tasted much better!
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: rover brewer on April 13, 2014, 06:58:26 pm
thanks everyone sorry it took so long for me to get back on, church and pot luck after so kids could hunt eggs. the picture mullet has is what mine looks like except mine are just starting to sprout.I have kept my eye on them since last year when I found them and they had already bolted.
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: rover brewer on April 13, 2014, 07:12:13 pm
thanks Tim for the article it was a good read, and there is an instructor right in Nashville. I'll have to see about get up with him.
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: mullet on April 13, 2014, 09:33:53 pm
RB;
When I first found them in CO., You could pick them in the AM and then again int he PM.
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: stickbender on April 14, 2014, 11:51:42 pm
What mullet is not telling us is that he tried another Colorado ditch weed first.  Suddenly EVERYTHING tasted much better!
  And in mass quantities!  ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D :P


                                                                               Wayne
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: Pappy on April 15, 2014, 10:15:02 am
Nashville,you are very close to me,just tell where it is and I will have a look and let you know if it is OK. ;) ;D ;D ;D
 Pappy
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: Blackcoyote on April 16, 2014, 09:45:11 am
love it, and enjoy hunting for it along the ditch banks....now my kids and wife help too! We find enough that after enjoying it fresh we freeze a bunch, we blanch it in boiling water for a couple minutes, rinse in ice water, and freezer bag (food saver bags even better).
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: rover brewer on April 16, 2014, 10:27:10 pm
just pick a handful tonight sad to say there was at least another handful that jack frost got. stir fried with olive oil and wild garlic chives it was great. Pappy your welcome to come on down But I live in rover not Nashville about 40 miles south of Nashville, I plan on making to the classic this year and I'll see what I can round up for you, I'll also be bring more johnstone for the knappers.
Title: Re: wild asparagus
Post by: Pappy on April 17, 2014, 06:10:42 am
Ver cool. :)
  Pappy