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Thread #122142   Message #2674650
Posted By: Mr Happy
08-Jul-09 - 08:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening: What's Edible?
Subject: BS: Gardening: What쳌fs Edible?
For years I쳌fve grown tomatoes, peppers, runner beans, broad beans, cucumbers, courgettes, potatatos, sugar peas & other stuff in my small garden.

Some쳌fve the garden plants are starting to crop around now.

While harvesting the first broad beans, shelling 쳌eem for cooking, it crossed my mind that there쳌fs a lot of wastage going on with the pods.

I tried cooking the pods too, to eat & they쳌fre pretty good & tasty if only the most tender ones are used.

I쳌fm now wondering if other parts of crop plants can be eaten safely.

I쳌fm aware that potato stems, leaves etc are poisonous, as are rhubarb leaves, but I don쳌ft know about the leaves, stems, roots etc of the other crops listed above.

I쳌fve checked out Wikipedia & some other sites for info, but so far only come up with that the roots of runner beans can be eaten.

Anyone know more?