Here’s a picture from an urban plant incident that spotaneously happened a few weeks ago. I was wondering how to transport four gangly zucchini seedlings from my apartment to the community garden. Luckily some friends dropped by to invite us for a stroll. So we took the zucchinis for their first trip outside. Maybe we should take our plants for walks more often. Why should dogs have all the fun?
Posts Tagged ‘walk’
Berlin: Taking zucchinis for a walk
Posted in Berlin plants, Personal plants, tagged Berlin, community garden, garden, seedling, walk, zucchini on 24 June 2009| 4 Comments »
Berlin: Edible plant walk
Posted in Berlin plants, Edible plants & recipes, tagged Berlin, blankenfelde, botanical garden, edible, field, grüne liga, herb, walk, wild plants, woods on 15 June 2009| 5 Comments »
In a city with many wild-growing plants, you begin to wonder if some might be useful. When I weed my 10 square meters at the community garden, carting piles of unknown plants to the compost heap and leaving just a few lonely vegetables amidst bare dirt, it seems ridiculous to dismiss so many robust green plants just because they are weeds, i.e. just because I didn’t plant them. But beyond young dandelions, which I’ve started taking home and sautéeing, what other wild plants are good to eat?
Thanks to a tip from Berlin Reified, I got the chance to find out more. I signed up for a Kräuterwanderung (herb walk) led by the very knowleadgeable and enthusiastic Elizabeth Westphal of the Berlin Grüne Liga, an environmental non-profit. Last Friday, she led about thirty urban plant enthusiasts through the beds, fields and woods of the botanical park in Berlin-Blankenfelde. Here are some of the plants we tasted.