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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:11 am
by ina
Thanks, Mandy!
Well, if bracken-fiddleheads (love that name!
) were edible AND tasty, that might be a solution to our quite serious bracken problem...
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:03 pm
by Millymollymandy
I have bracken too in one patch of my garden. Isn't it poisonous? I think I'll stick to eating the lesser celandine salad garnished with hairy bittercress flowers that I'm about to eat.
If I'm not around tomorrow .............
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:11 pm
by ina
It's toxic to a certain extent, but I think only at a later stage. We had a trial with goats and sheep once, to see how much they'd eat if it was there (amongst grass and other herbage), and what it would do to them - they did eat some, and it didn't do them any harm. But they'll never graze a whole hillside of bracken clean... That would probably upset their tummies.
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:28 pm
by Wombat
Full of Tannin I think!
Nev