Hope you washed your hands if you handled the Belladonna ( have it here in the garden) otherwise I guess if you arent on the site for a few days ............................................... It was nice knowing you TD
I've got Belladonna to clear away from the perimeter of my work premises and have just seen the first emergence of some mistletoe in the lower branches of our cherry trees.
Datura looks so pretty when the flowers are out but it's very invasive - the prickly seed pods burst open scattering the seeds far and wide. When we lived in rural France it was a real problem for the cereal farmers. Another poisonous one is laburnum.
Found in a churchyard last Saturday: could add a lift to bacon and egg and a fried slice, but thought better of it.
Oak Bracket by the looks of it from this site Tree Decay Fungi Identification & Strategy Just as well you didnt have a fry up
Its not only you thats out foraging - look out for drunken birds on those long walks Town alerts residents over 'tipsy' birds - yes I know its not UK but still forewarned is forearmed TD
Good crop of blackberries this year, but over about three weeks earlier than usual. Hazelnuts completely absent.
This year my hybrid wing nut trees have fruited after three years without. I think they have enjoyed the hot temperatures of June and July. On foraging, I was somewhat embarrassed to find a rogue tomato plant happily growing in a sheltered corner of my sports ground at work last month. In my defence (poor excuse) I have not had to visit this area much this summer due to the lack of grass growth due to the aforementioned hot summer months. The plant was about 5 feet tall!!
Disused sewage farms are a favourite location for self-set tomatoes...apparently passing through aids germination. Someone must've had a dump in the corner of your sports ground !
They are renown for having really good flavour, there was somewhere along the Thames that treated sewage that produced wonderful tomatoes - mind you thats what they did years ago TD
Yes indeed, the old 'night soil' used to be transported to the farms. I've only heard of tomato appearing like that. I wonder if there were others ? Obviously, it happens with birds all the time.
tomatoes on toast with a splash of hogweed juice Tomatoes have been found growing in human waste dumped from trains on tracks in Essex, a rail union has said. The tomato plant, spotted on the line at Rochford, is understood to have grown after undigested seeds were fertilised bysewage discharged from trains, rail union RMT has said.16 Oct 2014
Thanks, Clive, I'll give Oak Bracket a miss. Bullaces big and over-ripe for jam now, and too high up without a ladder. Also shown a fine crop of rose-hips, but do need a frost to help in preparing them for rose-hip syrup. Rain forecast tomorrow, the byways are very dry and easy to cycle along, the earth very firm.
It's not really foraging, but I'm going on an apple pick (1 tree) in my urban neighbourhood on Saturday morning. There's a volunteer group that connects home owners who have fruit trees with volunteers; the pickers get to split 1/3 of the take, the owners get 1/3, and charity gets 1/3. Better than the fruit potentially going to waste!
