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Michelle wrote:

On 1 Feb 2004 21:28:52 GMT, (jamie)
wrote:

Michelle wrote:
Have we imbread cultivated food plants that they just don't grow wild
where did all the wild plants go that we cultivated modern vegetables
from?

Some are quite common, you just don't recognize them. Queen Anne's Lace,
for example, is wild carrot.
Hey that's cool Can you eat eat queen ann's lace?
Is there a good book on things in nature that you can eat and what
they look like ?
or a web site?
I knew the thing about the letus I have grown many types of leaf and
head letus and after a while It is time to take it out because it
tastes like crap. I have been growing and caring for a garden alll
of my life My mother was a Missouri Farm girl and she grew every
thing under the sun you could put in a salad or boil and mash turnips
potatoes and all kinds of melons and peppers one year my dad said
that's it this isn't a share croping organization she had half the
back yard plowed and all the flower beds growing vegies and all around
the fence we never had to by any thing from the produce stand unless
it grew on a tree or it wasnt' 'the right climate for it .
on the bright side my dad hardely had to mow any of the three quarter
acre lot we lived on
the only thing that came back year after year was the peppers and
potatoes and cherry tomatoes
this thread is very intresting

The taproot is quite small, but recognizably
smells like a carrot, although it isn't sweet like cultivated ones.
It's not orange, either, but cultivated carrots in other parts of the
world come in red, yellow, white, and I think purple.

You may see wild lettuces, but they don't look like lettuce once they've
grown a flower stalk. Cultivated lettuce is picked early, because later
it develops a bitter sap. Maize, before being bred to our large-eared
corn, was more like a large grass.

Queen Anne's Lace is a very valuable and HEALING herbal.. don't knock it
unless you've tried it ( "ye leafy portion") in an healing elixir. B-0b1

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"Beaten Paths are for Beaten People". -- Anon.