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|    songbird to paul    |
|    Re: garlic wild    |
|    16 Jan 21 22:58:17    |
      From: songbird@anthive.com              paul wrote:       > got lots of wild garlic       >       > yellow flowers taste like spicy brocoli       >       > seeds are about a mm long and green               hmm, do you know the specific species? there are       a lot of alliums and even if someone finds some in       the wild they sometimes can come from escaped       domesticated varieties.                     > can the green seeds be used to make yellow garlic paste?               i don't see anything obvious saying that they are toxic       but i've never done anything like that. if it tastes good       and you don't react poorly to eating it go ahead, but as       always i think it a good idea to go light at first and see       if your body does react to a new food item.               my experience with onion seeds is that they have a hard       husk on the seed so i've not gone beyond that and instead       if i have extra i just bury them deeply so that the worms       can eat them eventually.               i planted some extras this past fall to see if they       would survive the winter or not if left out there, we'll       see what spring brings.               let us know what happens, if it is good, etc. :)                      songbird              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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