www.eattheweeds... Learn about wild food with Green Deane. In this video, we'll look at as source of starch, salad green and pot herb, the Pickerelweed.
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How do I germinate the pickerelweed seeds that I have in my refrigerator for our tropical climate here in Miami ??? I just received them......This plant is a native here also.....It grows in the Everglades.....Can I take them out of the refrigerator and plant them in some Miracle Grow potting soil and just keep them warm and moist ? We do have a huge shallow lake here... Thank you !
Several come to mind immediately, the wax myrtle and the american beauty berry, catnip, eucalyptus, Glechoma hederacea, the latter is found throughout North America save for the desert southwest.
Read in an article that the south American variant were used as an additive in some ayahuasca brews... We've got lots of beautiful specimens in Pennsylvania. They grow right in with cattail and wapato (well I guess he covered these). Anyway here's the excerpt: Pontederia cordata L. (Pontederiaceae) In the Colombian region of the Amazon, this plant is known as amarrón borrachero (“hazelwort inebriator”). It is used as an ayahuasca additive but may also possibly be used alone for psychoactive purposes (Schultes 1972, 141*). The plant is used ethnomedicinally to treat facial paralysis (Schultes 1981, 5*). There is also a North American variety: Pontederia cordata L. var. lancifolia.
There are good sites on cooking greens, but not pickerel weeds specifically. Greens tend to be greens and most of the recipes are interchangeable. However, pickerelweed is like its cousin in that cooked it still retains some tooth.
Great video Green Deane! Five stars as always. I couldn't quite catch the name of the next best roasted seed on the top of the list. What did you say it is?
Dean, I picked up the book you reccomended on the Forager's Harvest. Great book I must say, I've read it a few times through already. It mentions quite a bit on Wapato Plant as being a staple food of the past Native Americans, but leaves pickeral weed out for the most part other than a quick mention because it's so similar in it's looks and surroundings. Any good sites or other books on recipes for cooking these greens and other plants?
Native American Ethnobotany by Daniel Moerman is basically a dictionary on the utilitarian applications of plants found on the continent and has a lot of info on pickerelweed, it's an invaluable reference book
Hey Green, If you are in Florida then isn;t it very dangerous to hang out at the edge of a pond or small lake with the risk of getting eaten by an alligator?
Lost so many episodes, cos l lost my computer. Now back in the group, greetings and blessings.
One thing I know is that TH-cam is the ultimate free learning platform. However do you do or would you consider doing a private consultation? I could use your wealth of knowledge to bounce some questions off of
Yes, the are quite a few minnows in that waterway.
Great vid. Thank you for all the time and effort that you put into making these videos.
How do I germinate the pickerelweed seeds that I have in my refrigerator for our tropical climate here in Miami ??? I just received them......This plant is a native here also.....It grows in the Everglades.....Can I take them out of the refrigerator and plant them in some Miracle Grow potting soil and just keep them warm and moist ? We do have a huge shallow lake here... Thank you !
don't you have to watch out for alligators in the swamps? btw if I was starving I just might consider alligator although I'm vegetarian.
Joe's comments sent me here.
Look up the local chapter of the Native Plant Society. They always have a local edibles expert.
Yes... the seeds are the only source of starch regarding the pickerelweed.
Several come to mind immediately, the wax myrtle and the american beauty berry, catnip, eucalyptus, Glechoma hederacea, the latter is found throughout North America save for the desert southwest.
i have and it is amazing ... love it
I'm late to the party but I wanted to say thank you! I love your videos
Read in an article that the south American variant were used as an additive in some ayahuasca brews... We've got lots of beautiful specimens in Pennsylvania. They grow right in with cattail and wapato (well I guess he covered these). Anyway here's the excerpt:
Pontederia cordata L.
(Pontederiaceae)
In the Colombian region of the Amazon, this plant is known as amarrón borrachero (“hazelwort inebriator”). It is used as an ayahuasca additive but may also possibly be used alone for psychoactive purposes (Schultes 1972, 141*). The plant is used ethnomedicinally to treat facial paralysis (Schultes 1981, 5*). There is also a North American variety: Pontederia cordata L. var. lancifolia.
There are good sites on cooking greens, but not pickerel weeds specifically. Greens tend to be greens and most of the recipes are interchangeable. However, pickerelweed is like its cousin in that cooked it still retains some tooth.
thanks dude,, great vids... thanks once again
this is video 89!? That means there are at least 88 others! Nice! Very informative. i will check out the others.
How can you definitely tell the difference between arrow arum and pickerel weed?
pickeral weed has parallel j shaped veins
Well.... yes, particularly mothers...
Thank you. Watch out for alligators.
Five Stars!!
Hi Deane, I have pickerelweed in my garden pond, and my goldfish ate the seeds from the old flowers. Will the seeds survive being eaten by goldfish?
You are in the most western part of their range.
Usually not.
Great video Green Deane! Five stars as always.
I couldn't quite catch the name of the next best roasted seed on the top of the list. What did you say it is?
Dean, I picked up the book you reccomended on the Forager's Harvest. Great book I must say, I've read it a few times through already. It mentions quite a bit on Wapato Plant as being a staple food of the past Native Americans, but leaves pickeral weed out for the most part other than a quick mention because it's so similar in it's looks and surroundings. Any good sites or other books on recipes for cooking these greens and other plants?
Native American Ethnobotany by Daniel Moerman is basically a dictionary on the utilitarian applications of plants found on the continent and has a lot of info on pickerelweed, it's an invaluable reference book
I'm a little confused on when you can eat the leaves - can you eat them at any stage, or just when they are curled (young)?
Hey Dean was that little minnow fish causing the little ripples?
have you had gator?
Yes. I think it is very over rated. There is no food I won't eat. And I could easily eat alligator but it is swampy tough chickem.
Hey Green, If you are in Florida then isn;t it very dangerous to hang out at the edge of a pond or small lake with the risk of getting eaten by an alligator?