Our local invaders

[quanglewangle]

Japanese knotweed – Identification, distribution, edibility – Galloway Wild Foods

"taste somewhere between gooseberry and rhubarb" ie somewhere between yuk! and just horrible. Why am I not surprised (not sure if rhetorical questions take a question mark or not)

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I've sent your link to my mad granddaughter, who is a Japanese specialist, particularly food. She is a regular visitor to the country. I will report back

[veggiechicken]

Perhaps we could we get some trendy chef to come up with a recipe for caramelized crocosmia corm tart?

Can't find a recipe but you can use the flowers as a dye and a substitute for saffron apparently!

https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?Lat...rocosmia+aurea

[quanglewangle]

Can't find a recipe but you can use the flowers as a dye and a substitute for saffron apparently!

https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?Lat...rocosmia+aurea

Barrel. Scraping. Bottom.

[veggiechicken]

What you do in your spare time is none of my business!!

[Bren In Pots]

There's Japanese knotweed growing behind our house, about 4 or 5 years ago the land owners chopped and burnt it but nothings been done since.
I think it's odd that you can buy it in France when it takes hold there's no stopping it, you can actually see it growing in the summer.

[greenishfing]

"taste somewhere between gooseberry and rhubarb" ie somewhere between yuk! and just horrible. Why am I not surprised (not sure if rhetorical questions take a question mark or not)

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I've sent your link to my mad granddaughter, who is a Japanese specialist, particularly food. She is a regular visitor to the country. I will report back

I haven't eaten a gooseberry or rhubarb for at least 50 years.

YUK! YUK!

I would have to be starving.

I can imagine Japanese Knotweed being marketed as the wonderful plant to give to your worst enemy!

Even in La belle France.