.JPG) Here it is Costs nowt - free from greengrocers, Weighs next to nothing, comes in various colours/sizes - some have drawstrings. Good for putting wet shelter/gear in and strapping to outside of pack, Makes a great UL salad spinner/drier if you whirl it round and round... Yes I do take salad* with me backpacking - and sometimes forage for greens to supplement pretty inert dehydrated food *dirty cos it keeps longer unwashed - we grow a lot ourselves
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 Bump - just because it's a good idea and deserves to be more widely read.
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 > sometimes forage for greens What do you forage for Mole? (oh and the bag looks really quite useful as well)
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.jpg) Great idea, simple, cheap and effective. Don't often get three out of three
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Aww Just looked back - I had thought that I had no response to this one Cheers Frum, John an AL Foraging wise - not so much about on the moor tops, but in late spring /early summer - lots of shoots/leaves in lower land,woods/hedges Mostly just fine heated just enough to go like 'spinach'some are ok raw as salad Off the top of my head quickly - ones used most Garlic mustard (jack by the hedge) Ramsons Nettle tops Ground elder (if passing gardens - it's often in the verge) Hogweed/ alexanders shoots in may pink purslane - not native but in woods hedges all over Dartmoor. Fat hen we have the SW coast nearby too so lots of stuff near sea - eg wild beet leaves/alexanders .
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Just to add - the bags might look puny, but they are designed to carry kilos of dense vegetables like swedes or onions, so very strong.
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Bumpty bump....excellent idea mole
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Thanks Mole. How do you use/cook some of them? A couple of them have quite strong flavours. Hogweed shoots, sounds interesting. Isn't that the stuff where you don't wont to put the sap on your skin? Is that only with older plants?
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 blimey, hogweed? didn't know ground elder was edible. i could live for a 1000 years on the amount i've pulled out of gardens. young shoots only? EDIT: think it's just the giant hogweed that's a pain - ordinary is fine.
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i love the return of the giant hogweed but then again im admiting to likeing genesis, cant belive others eat the ground elder, i was chewing on some out of my garden and thought this is nice, what is the best way to cook it or do youi eat it raw?
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 Young bracken shoots but not too many or you get the trots, wood sorrel...good as a nice sharp addition to salads but again, not too much, sheep's sorrel, a cooking vegetable but yet again don't eat too much. Young shoots of Hogweed are a very good vegetable but are easily confused with the leaves of young Giant Hogweed which is poisonous. Goose grass is edible and like chickweed is jam packed with VitC. It's best to strip the leaves and cook briefly before the seeds form at which point it is pretty useless. One of my favourites is the pignut which can be eaten raw or roasted.
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Here it is Costs nowt - free from greengrocers, Weighs next to nothing, comes in various colours/sizes - some have drawstrings. Good for putting wet shelter/gear in and strapping to outside of pack, Makes a great UL salad (and clothes) spinner/drier if you whirl it round and round...
Forgot to put originally that it also makes an excellent pan scrubber when scrunched up (have also used for personal washing - bit scratchy though - good for mucky hands/feet)
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 Good thread Mole.
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Oh Mole...just go for it.... Bumpty bump!
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 Pasta strainer?
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 Onion bag
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Oh sorry thats what it is isnt it  Go on you tight gits - just buy a bag in a shop like normal people
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