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Offline rokefert

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Fiddleheads
« on: January 22, 2011, 12:44:11 PM »
I tried picking and eating ostrich fern fiddleheads this summer and they were great sort of like asparagus crosses with a green bean.  You have to identify Ostrich fern only, and it is simple enough for a kid to do it.  We got a bag full in a matter of 10 minutes or so and that was leaving over half of each clump for seed. Anybody else pick em?
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Re: Fiddleheads
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2011, 09:37:07 AM »
I found some last spring but was not sure if they were the correct fern or not. I took a few pictures of them, and identified them in a book as safe to eat. I didn't make it back in time to pick any though...this year I will try some.
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Re: Fiddleheads
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2011, 10:39:22 AM »
yup, i pick and eat them.   good eating. 

  to identify, look at the stalk.   if it is the shape of a piece of celery stalk, it is an ostrich fern and good eats.  if the stalk is a round shape, do not eat it.   
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