Emirene Backues

Fascinating!
I have not heard of this plant
Is the stalk as crunchy and juicy as regular celery or is it a bit tough and stringy (like other wild celery relatives).
Also, is it a problem to differentiate wild celery from the poisonous relatives: water hemlock and poison hemlock?

It is a bit tough and stringy as it grows.  The young shoots you can eat in a salad- the older ones do better cooked.  It doesn't look super similar to poison hemlock to me, but this is native to an island off South Korea and is not currently naturalized in the US as far as I know.  It's the easiest plant I grow in my gardens and I love that it's simple to prepare/cook.

Not super common, but the easiest most versatile plant I grow is Seombadi/Korean Celery/Dystaenia takesimana.  This stuff is amazing.  Zone 6b temperate NE in the US- it is a perennial and overwinters without any difficulty, can brush snow aside and harvest lightly even in Feb or March.  It's now started to self seed and I'm happily giving seedlings away the my unsuspecting neighbors.  Mild flavor, depending of the age of the shoot and leaf it can be used in salads, stir fry, or soups.  Also while the groundhog and rabbits eat it, they don't decimate it like other plants (any brassicas, or squash varieties I try to grow that's not fully fenced).  Attached is a pic from early April this year after a very hard winter and not much else is green yet.

The much higher than usual amount of snow this past winter meant the top of the drifts were well above my rabbit guards.  14 of my young fruit trees were completely girdled (all of my apple trees and a few pears).  I felt physically ill when I did a close inspection this spring, particularly because I was expecting apples for the first year after waiting so long for the trees to mature.  Silver lining is I finally practiced grafting with some rescue attempts.  Some of the trees did leaf out, others were a total loss.  I've learned that I need to shovel around my trees when we have over 4 feet of snow!  

What a wonderfully diverse bunch!  I'm an ER physician and mom to 4 kids.  I would happily spend my time growing food and taking care of my ducks and kids, but I have too many bills currently.  Hoping to simplify life a bit in the future.