It feels like cheating to feature strawberries picked in my garden, but most of the other plants I've foraged are growing in my garden, and these are definitely the wild variety, so here they are - wild strawberries.
Wild strawberries (Fragaria vesca)
What can I say about wild strawberries? Tiny fruit, divine flavour - a little taste of heaven.
Also harvesting this week:
Fat hen
Potatoes - Charlotte, Vale Emerald, and one Desiree plant that was growing in the compost heap.
Mint
Cultivated strawberries
The occasional raspberry
Cherries - just three so far, but so exciting! Of the six fruit trees I planted in spring 2011, this is the first to produce any fruit.
Also eating:
Crab apple and rosemary jelly
Blackcurrant sorbet
Damson and mascarpone ice cream
Also drinking:
Elderflower champagne
Bay herb ale
Heather ale
Foraged food challenge summary page here.
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