What goes better with fresh strawberries than more strawberries? You can dress up this easy strawberry shortcake recipe by slicing and layering like I did in the photos, or serve it family style and let everyone help themselves. We have several You Pick strawberry farms in our area, so we always make time to go…. Back in , I started learning about quackgrass for medicinal and culinary use, and saw mention that it could be used to make quackgrass beer but never found a recipe.
So, being the curious type, I wondered if you could make quackgrass wine. I am happy to report that, yes, quackgrass wine can be made,…. Nettles have a long history of use for food, medicine, fiber and more. Common blue violets Viola sororia are perennial wildflowers native to North America. A folklore favorite, these bright little plants are also rich in nutrition and soothing medicine.
After spending a morning with Earthheart, I came home with an abundance of St. So — what to do with the haul? Common yarrow, Achillea millefolium, is a wonderfully useful herb for humans and makes a great companion plant.
I also remember being out there with a bowl and picking them to sprinkle on our icecream for dessert. Nom nom! Thanks for the great article! I read that study a few years back about wild strawberries having superior levels of antioxidants. Needless to say, I always stop at the side of the road and load up a couple pockets full whenever I see them!
Hey Phil! I suspect these little gems are too labor intensive to show up at the market any time soon, but we can dream. We have wild strawberries in north Ga. They grow wild easily here in places as you mentioned. They are much smaller and more tart than commercial strawberries.
I have wld strwberrie in my front yard but they are not sweet like ones I ate as a child in upstste N Y. Are threr any look alikes for wild strawberries? As noted at the top of the post, there are several related species that look very similar. I had to laugh when I saw the distribution map for strawberries, a reminder that North America is richly blessed! In addition to the possibility of being another species of berry with less flavor, I wonder if soil chemistry might have something to do with how high on the sweetness scale the berries can go?
We have wild strawberries growing near our driveway, which is mostly sand and gravel slowly being covered by low growing field herbs. Some patches taste sweeter than others, and the difference seems to be correlated by how densely covered that patch along the driveway is in weeds.
Maybe over time this means here is more herb enriched organic matter there? I also recently read that cultivated strawberries benefit from being moved into a new bed every three years. No reasons were given, but my thought is that this reduces the probability of disease and the potential that the new bed would have been built with soil amendments, which in my case would be well aged compost and supplementary minerals and trace minerals. The younger plants also tend to be more productive.
You give them a spot, and they go crazy for a year or two, then start to get too overcrowded. Sweetness is highly likely to affected by soil and other ambient conditions, like amount of sun and heat. I thought the range map was humorous, too. I have a row of fragaria virginiana in my yard that have been growing for 2. The plants are doing well and seem healthy but I have had no strawberries?
Any ideas why? There seems to be an another plant, or a variety of wild strawberries that produces no fruit or extra-tiny inedible fruit. I have a small tiny strawberry patch in my garden NZ transplanted from a single plant last winter. We call them alpine strawberries. Interesting to learn that we can use the leaves too.
Given that they are common at the edge of forests and along banks that get a lot of sun exposure. Heck, you may have even seen them growing in your backyard a time or two. Yet there is a misconception about wild strawberries. People will tell you that they are not only inedible, but that they are poisonous to consume.
That last little bit? As a matter of fact, wild strawberries are not only completely edible, they are actually highly nutritious, too. But it is easy to be deceived by a look-alike, a fake: the mock strawberry. Identifying a mock strawberry is relatively easy, too. Perhaps the easiest way to tell whether you are looking at a wild strawberry or the mock version is in the color of its blossom. Both wild and farm-grown strawberries will have that familiar green leaf, but there is a subtle difference between those and the mock strawberries that can fool us.
When you come upon strawberries in the wild, look for the blossom. For wild strawberries, look for white blossoms. With mock strawberries, however, the blossom is yellow in color. Another dead giveaway when trying to figure out if you have a wild strawberry instead of a mock strawberry is the way that it hangs on the vine. The fake will point skyward while the genuine article will simply dangle down on the vine.
Genuine wild strawberries will have that sweet smell to them just like the ones that you grow in a garden. Not only are wild strawberries totally fine to enjoy as a snack on the trail, they have actually been proven to have medicinal uses as well. The leaves of the wild strawberry can be used both dry and fresh.
They act as a gentle astringent used to combat digestive problems and even to treat diarrhea. The leaves also make for a great cleansing diuretic used to treat gout, arthritis, and rheumatism. When crushed, wild berries can actually be turned into an ointment used to sooth sunburns that are mild in nature. Another use for crushed wild strawberries is as a liver tonic and it can also be used to reduce fevers. The root of the wild strawberry has also been used in the past as a treatment for diarrhea.
The leaf is still the most commonly used part of the plant when it comes to diarrhea, however. Even popping a few in your mouth from time to time is a great source of vitamins B, C, and E. Feel free to taste it to see if it has any flavor as well. If it tastes good, collect as many as you can and enjoy them fresh or in your favorite strawberry dessert.
Not only can you enjoy them as a nutritious snack, Wild strawberries can also be used for medicinal purposes. The leaves can be used fresh or dried as a gentle astringent for diarrhea and digestive upsets.
They can also be used as a cleansing diuretic for rheumatism, gout, and arthritis. Crushed berries make a soothing ointment for mild sunburns. The berries are also a liver tonic, and are used as a fever reducer. The root has been used in the past as a remedy for diarrhea.
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