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I am totally enjoying garlic mustard this year!!! Also making sure to not disturb the flowers. Those leaves are going into as many recipes as possible. Garlic mustard pesto is awesome!
Thank you. I prefer the seeds myself, they have a taste that I would describe as a mix between horse radish, mustard and chives. I only harvest the seeds in the wild. Just like with stinging nettle, I prefer them outside my garden.
I know this is from a couple years ago, but what is your opinion on the cyanide debate? I've seen people saying garlic mustard has to be cooked, and others saying the amount of cyanide is similar to that in broccoli or other leafy greens.
Thanks for your comment. I have the same questions and still not sure. One research paper (link below) shows garlic mustard to contain trace, but perhaps concerning levels of cyanide. Would love to hear more about this. Hoping folks will comment if they know more. www.researchgate.net/publication/6651853_Cyanide_in_the_Chemical_Arsenal_of_Garlic_Mustard_Alliaria_petiolata
@@DinaFalconi the wild food booster that was at the end of the video, but I think I just don't know how to internet correctly, cus I found the link and it worked! Lol sorry...
Thanks for your comment, although not sure of your question here: "that plants should be rather eaten before flowering?" Yes, the immature seed pods can be eaten raw.
@@DinaFalconi Thank you Dear, I mean the leaves and possibly the stem, these are rather meant to be eaten before the plant blooms or latest when/until they have buds. And we know that plants change their content/chemistry (on the leave/stem area) when blooming. Even the (for) all-time praised nettle will have a less good effect on kidneys when its leaves (socalled older leaves) are being eaten when it's a mature plant. Of course the flowers on its own and later fruits/seeds on their own can be eaten, but when having arrived this state, that does not include the leaf/stem parts and I think that applies to any plant? Love
Thank you for your clarifying comment. Yes, the basal leaves of garlic mustard aren't so worthy when it's starts flowering, as well as the tough stem; but the aerial leaves and tender stems along with the bud, flower and immature seed can all be eaten (if one finds them tasty). As the plant progresses deeper into flower-to-seed stage, the leaves and stems usually become less desirable. For plant eating, this concept is generally the case, but may not always apply.
I feel like invasive is a prejudice term for plants because it only considers the effects it has on native species and not at all on it's benefits and uses. If the penultimate concern is preserving native species then we are the worst offenders as humans and the most invasive species there is. I for one welcome the invasion of many plants the establishment wants to make periahs. Examples would be wineberry and garlic mustard. These and others are sustanance for an abundance of wild life and while i am all about wildlife diversity in a very real way i also recognize that wildlife abundance is more important. This means while invassives will wipe out niche species it benefits others. Embrace change people its inevitable, regardless of human intervention. Let the environment do what it does which is adapt. Sidebar: i spent most ofy 50 years hating kudzu till i realized you can eat it. Now i can admit that kudzu is truly invassive in that it chokes out entire woodlands, but the point is that demonizing it has kept people like me assuming its wvil forever and not even comsodering it as a food source for humans and animals. Japanese knotweed is another. Its truly invassive however if we managed it by using it instead of demonizing itnand tryna mg to eradicate it i feel everyone benefits includong wildlife. If we are stewards of this planet aking to adam and eve in the garden then it is our duty to harmonize not categeorize and hand down judgement. My local park for example just keeps fighting the losing battle of chopping knotweed down to the root and hauling off the vegetaion to be destroyed. This removes resources from the closed loop environment our planet strives to maintain. Now, my solution, to come full circle and mqkey point, is that knotweed is high in resveratrol, potentially an important cpmpound that is b ing heavily researched for healing and anti-aging purposes. It should be our government's duty to manage these things from a postion of knowledeg. Put people in charge that can vertocally integrate the destruction of a knotweed infestation with academic research of resveratrol. Turn these invassoves into food spurces for the poor or for animal fodder. We are so wastefull it hurts me to the core
