• Garlic Mustard

    From Skuz@9:91/1 to All on Sat Jan 25 22:46:00 2014
    lawns and gardens, but they should welcome it as it is one of the most nutritious of the common wild foods. Also known as Jack-by-the-hedge and sauce-alone, this plant defends itself from insects by smelling like garlic.

    Garlic mustard has no poisonous look-alikes, making it a safe plant to
    harvest. Its long-stalked basal leaves are dark green, heart-shaped, scallop-edged, and deeply veined. Its flower buds resemble broccoli, its relative. Because its leaves contain a natural anti-freeze, the plants grow
    in the early spring. The plant grows up to three feet high by mid-spring, and the seed pods contain edible seeds that can be harvested in the summer. Also, while many plants become bitter as they mature, the garlic mustard leaves maintain their mild flavor, and are especially popular mixed with other vegetables. If you find an older plant with exceptionally large leaves, its taproot can be ground and used like the similar-tasting horseradish.

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