It's Gathering Time

[Sully]

Pictures I have taken of vegetation I have gathered in my area!

Black Mulberry



Pear



Black Walnut

Tart Cherry



White Mulberry

[Satya]

Brilliant pics, Sully!  Did you shoot those?  What camera are you using?

[Sully]

Brilliant pics, Sully!  Did you shoot those?  What camera are you using?

Thanks! yes I took them with my camera. It's a small nikon digital camera. 6.2 megapixels. I croped and edited the photos on windows photo gallery.

[xylothrill]

Excellent! I had no idea black walnuts would look like that. Is it a fruit? If so, is the fruit part edible?

Craig

[lex_rooker]

Black Walnuts are a nut like a regular English Walnut except that the shells are very hard.  It really takes some effort to crack them and get the meat out.  You'll seldom find Black Walnuts with whole or 1/2 pieces as you pretty much have to break the meat of the nut into small pieces to get it out of the shell.

What you see in the pictures are the nuts inside their husks.  English Walnuts, almonds, etc also have husks.  The husks crack open and the nuts fall out as they mature in the early fall.

Lex

[Sully]

Yes, the structure of the husk and shell is also similar to the coconut. First you crack off the husk, then crack the shell, then eat the nut kernals. When fall comes they fall from the trees and thats the time to gather them.

[Sully]

[wodgina]

Beautiful looking fruits  and great shots as well...I'm jealous!

We have nothing like that where I live, I have never eaten a wild berry from the bush in my life, we have nothing except a few salty leaves and acrid pithy fruits. The local aborigines would have had almost zero carbs.

I've eaten cloud berries in Norway and black berries in the UK which was a great experience.

[Sully]

Beautiful looking fruits  and great shots as well...I'm jealous!

We have nothing like that where I live, I have never eaten a wild berry from the bush in my life, we have nothing except a few salty leaves and acrid pithy fruits. The local aborigines would have had almost zero carbs.

I've eaten cloud berries in Norway and black berries in the UK which was a great experience.

what a shame, i hope you'll one day have the experience of gathering succulent fruit  , although those apples aren't wild, I found them in my neiborhood on city property, they weren't sprayed at all, you can tell because of all the worm holes, sometimes i find succulent worms inside, although i have never ate one yet, don't know if its poisonous

[Sully]

[wodgina]

In all your shots you have amazing light and blue skies very similiar to what it's like here in Western Australia, you've inspired me to try a bit harder at gathering, I'll take some shots as well but my gathering will most likely be shell fish/crabs/worms than plants. I heading north for a holiday soon as there's plenty to gather.

[Sully]

I wish you luck with gathering, its nice to eat right on the spot, then take som home for later.

[Sully]

I'm competing with robins, as ou can see here...

[Sully]

the images I posted before are gone caused I moved them to a new folder. here are some of them again, sorry about that

Black Mulberry



White Mulberry



Pear



Tart Cherry

[Sully]

I threw some flax seeds in the lawn because I didn't want them. A few days later sprouts grew.

[Raw Kyle]

That was fast growth for those flax sprouts. You live in a great place for gathering and growing stuff it seems.

[Sully]

I guess. I'm in a temperate area. Wisconsin. But i through some spinach seeds in a pot in my house, and a few days later the sprouts came up.

Seeds that sprout very quickly when I just through them in some dirt without even burying them. I through them in pots, and outside.

Sunflower
Spinach
Flax

[Sully]

Tart cherries, mulberries, and black raspberries, pictures and food taken today.











oh and mustard garlic greens