Although I’ve forgotten what normal is! Mr Uhdd is not quite home yet, the goal posts for his return moved from Monday to Tuesday and his route home diverted via the Isle of Man, he’s in harbour at Holyhead now, where he left the car, but there is a little complication that will delay him further, remember that bag of dirty laundry that BiL brought home from the end of the Three Peaks Yacht Race, on Mr Uhdd’s behalf? It had Mr Uhdd’s car keys in it. Car in Wales, keys in Derbyshire, that’s not going to work.
So this is as near as I can get to the promised post about pig nuts,
my friend Mrs Bee has a whole field full in bloom right now and I’m keen to get along and photograph them. But it has been raining hard over night, so they might be battered to the ground, maybe I’ve missed the moment for this year. Watch this space.
June 29, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Oops – car and keys in different countries is never good.
June 29, 2010 at 3:07 pm
The pignut looks suspiciously like one of those carrot/parsley family members that can be difficult to tell apart. I will look forward to learning more about how I can grub up pignuts to go with my wild leeks . . . and not grub up poison hemlock instead. I swear, life in the world is a challenging business.
June 29, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Looks like Cow Parsley to me or as we up North call it ‘Old Man’s Baccy’ and down South they call it ‘Queen Anne’s Lace’.
I can’t wait to see a field of it and is it really Pignuts.really pignuts.
I cannot wait to find out.
June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Oops meant to add I looked up pignuts and found on Nature’s Secret Larder a lovely explanation.
http://www.naturessecretlarder.co.uk/bushcraft-tutorials/pignut-foraging-tutorial-conopodium-majus.htm