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Rebecca Norman wrote:
Susan Mené wrote:Does anyone have advice for garlic mustard? I have an abundance. When is the best time to harvest? Can older plants, flowers, and/or seeds be used?
This year in the US I used garlic mustard, first time for me. I noticed it at the same time as I noticed nettles, June, so I used them together. Mostly, I made pesto of both of them along with olive oil and walnuts. Good stuff.
I tried to find out from the internet when is the best time to use it, and found wildly contradictory advice. Apparently at some stages it can have a fair bit of cyanide precursors (similar to what is in fruit pits), but weirdly, different sites said this is an issue in first year garlic mustard or in second year garlic mustard. I don't know. So I figured I won't eat huge volumes of it and any single time or on a single day.
Douglas Alpenstock wrote:
Maieshe Ljin wrote: If I focus on my own life then I can be happier being grateful for what is here and working towards a more resilient life. If there’s something important someone will tell me!
My contrarian view is that the most important thing is to be a magnificent resource for your neighbours, who do not yet understand what they will need.
Anne Barnsworth wrote:There are too many grasshoppers. I live in a development that used to be a farm. There are no worms in my soil so I know there is a dysbios going on. I’m trying to remedy that by planting various mustard seeds in dead grass.
John F Dean wrote:All of the above. My standard is a 4 cup Farberware perk that we bought in the mid 70s. It still worked great. We do have an espresso machine, French press, Mr Coffee, etc. All see use sometime during the year.
