What can you pick and eat from the Hedgerows at the sides of country lanes or even some Roads and fields.?

Water cress is one I know of, found in streams, What does Wild Garlic look like? Different types of Herbs, Plants, Flowers, Berries, Fruits, Vegetables not common, etc!!

What can you pick and eat from the Hedgerows at the sides of country lanes or even some Roads and fields.?
Try to get hold of a book called 'Food For Free'
Reply:BLACKBERRIES AND POKE GREENS
Reply:You would need to get a good clear book of pictures of plants and compare. Or hike with a botanist. It would be impossible for someone to say this and that is good because it all depends on where, when, and if it was sprayed. Blackberries would be my guess but I doubt anyone has those prickly things near a lane or road.
Reply:Your nose ?
Reply:You can tell wild garlic from its strong smell - it looks a bit like an onion plant. Rose hips can be used to make rose hip syrup, sloes to make sloe gin, chestnuts are nice roasted, crab apples can be used to make jelly - there are lots of good things in the countryside, but I would echo the previous advice - get a good book or someone who knows to help you identify them correctly before you eat! P.S. - In the UK you can pick blackberries in Autumn from beside public footpaths, away from the road - no-one will complain, and they won't be contaminated by fumes.
Reply:Provided you can identify plants, vegetables and fruits of all kinds, it is possible to pick just about anything you want. However, it's best to make certain you are not trespassing on private property. And remember, highway and road easements belong to the federal government, state, county or city. Unless it's your property, it may not be legal to pick anything.
Reply:I wouldn't pick and eat without washing!!

Sounds like you need a good ID book.
Reply:Assuming you are in the UK, then right now you could be out picking blackberries, damsons and elderberries.

I was doing it this week and have just finished making loads of hedgerow jam.

In the spring you can gather elder flowers and make cordial.

Wild garlic is around in the spring as well.

Here is a link to some images of wild garlic.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en%26amp;...
Reply:i am not sure but never pick from the road side as the exhaust fumes could contaminate.
Reply:Got winkles and mussels down the beach today.On the walk

home.I picked half a tesco bag of blackberrys.You can pick

leaves all along our paths.
Reply:Richard Mabey and Jonathan Hilton both have books called something like 'Food for Free', they're available from Amazon and give illustrations and descriptions of wayside food.

The best things at the moment (UK) are blackberries, elderberries and in a couple of weeks when there's been a frost: sloes.

Good luck!
Reply:There are lots of things you can pick and eat, like someone suggested try getting a book or researching it further on the internet.



Things I can think of would be blackberries, raspberries, wild strawberries, bluelberries, mint, parsely and garlic.
Reply:Hours chestnuts to Cook on the firer on bonfire night 5th Nov
Reply:maccedees probably