It's like finding money. Don't overlook flowering wild field mustard, Brassica rapa
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- If you can find a patch of wild field mustard (Brassica rapa), it really is like finding money. But when the plants are growing low to the ground, or when they are taller but still all green, maybe you won't notice the wild field mustard that's around you. The time you will notice wild field mustard is when they are flowering, with those tall flower stalks and bright yellow flowers. But by then, you may think it's not worth stopping and checking out, because the plants are too mature -- but you may be surprised!
Wild field mustard has bright flowers with 4 petals in a square shape, like all the plants in the mustard family. Brassica rapa flowers are bright yellow. And the way the leaves clasp around the flower stalk is a distinctive feature of Brassica rapa within the mustards.
Get some tips for fast harvesting of the wild field mustard stalks. I picked over 12 pounds of wild field mustard flower stalks in about a half hour.
Get tips on how to preserve wild field mustard through blanching and freezing. They can provide a lot of food for only a little effort.
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Wild field mustard is one of my top 5 wild greens of springtime. If it's in your area, I hope you can enjoy it as much as I do. If you use wild field mustard, I would enjoy hearing all about it! Here's a playlist with more wild field mustard, and other plants in the mustard family. Wild field mustard - Brassica rapa. czcams.com/play/PLEGN8kE_KnjBY1bhUcZwxVzymmyt18ndx.html
Can you eat the yellow flowers at the top .. ?
Yes, you can see them in some of my wild salad videos, where I'll use the young greens - and the flowers whenever I can get them. They also make a nice mustardy paste if you can mash them up with a mortar and pestle or a food processor or something like that. That would not be for long-term storage, but for quick use. I eat the flowers straight off the plant, too, when I find them -- it's hard to pass them by, lol. I hope you can find some for yourself!
I have used the shoots of spring plants like asparagus. I cut the leaves off, put the shoots on a baking sheet, brushed them with olive oil, season them, and bake them.
what about wild garlic mustard - similar with white flowers. also good to eat ?
Is it possible for you to give us the recipe of your food plate once you show on your videos as well ? Most of us inspired by you a lot . I have been looking for your dandelion burger recipe and in one of your video you showed us redbud flower vinegar and with the salty redbud vinegar , but you did not tell us how you made the salty one. can you please show us how you made that one as well. love you keep healthy.
I’m not embarrassed to say how excited I was to see new videos from you! Your content has been a part of my journey reconnecting with nature, and I generally just appreciate what you do! Here’s to many forging adventures.
You’re such a gift. Thank you!
I'm glad you are enjoying my videos, JSB. I hope you can enjoy some of the wild food and nature in your area, too. Happy Spring!
I found fields of these here in Texas! They had flowers. I still picked the leaves. They weren't really big. Some were small. Omg, so good. I cooked them with dandelion leaves, wild onion, oil, garlic powder, and salt. It was so freakin' good! Lol. I ate the flowers, too! 😁
Nice that you found some wild field mustard there in Texas! I appreciate you describing what stage of growth the plants were in. It helps everyone realize how this plant is edible anytime the greenery isn't too tough. The way you cooked everything sounds delicious! Thanks for watching and commenting on so many of my videos, too!
I can't wait till our little one is big enough to get out more. Your harvest looks amazing 😋 Thanks for taking us along with you!
Hey, Hank, thanks for stopping by. Your harvests will be more than ever, once you enlist your little helper! I know you like wild field mustard. I hope you can find some, even with your baby in your front carrier, it will be easy to harvest! ; )
@@HaphazardHomestead absolutely! Thanks, I'd happily settle for the seeds pods at this point 😁
Just harvested my first wild mustard yesterday of 2023. I was so excited you'd think it was Christmas😂 I enjoyed it so much🤤Im looking forward to harvesting bracken fern and knotweed next🤗
Yay! That's so great, Sabby Jones! I like how you explain the excitement of finding wild field mustard. It's real! Happy harvesting for your ferns and knotweed! You will be eating well in 2023! :D
What is knotweed and what can you use of it?
Hi Holly :-D
Thank you for sharing!!! I learn SO MUCH from you!!!
Prayers
You're welcome, Kathleen Zimmerman! I hope you can find a good patch of wild field mustard sometime. It's really great food -- tasty, easy to harvest, productive, and easy to save a lot for later in the year. Even people that don't like wild greens usually like wild field mustard. Happy spring!
Wonderful! I'm going for arugula flowers & plenty of wild lettuce & dandelions. East Bay of Ca. I love your videos and mention them in the gardening community. Fun & yummy. Glad to see you 🦋🌺🥰🌱
You have so many good wild plants to eat in your area, Lil Cricket! Arugula flowers and the pink wild radish (Raphanus spp.) flowers and so many more just in the Mustard family. Thanks so much for sharing my videos with your gardening community. They will already know so many of these plants, at least as weeds, but hopefully as food worth harvesting, too. Happy spring!
So glad to see you posting again!
Thank you!
@haphazard homestead
Glad to see you post a new video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, DragonFly Visions. I've got 4 within a month, now, so I hope I'm on a roll to even more, lol. There's a lot of interesting plants and mushrooms, and good eating, ahead! Happy spring!
I love your channel. I am so grateful to see your new content. Your voice is perfect for asmr, either way yours is always a peaceful relaxing educational experience. Thank you! Please continue and I pray you will continue to flourish. Happy Gardening!
Just writing to say that I hope you're well. I always come back to your channel every few months, especially during foraging season. J
Two years ago I picked some wild mustard greens I knew you can eat them from my grandparents.
So I took my granddaughter with me because I was trying to teach her about free food I don't know alot but what I do learn I teach her.
I was surprised at how flavorful they were my granddaughter liked them too she was 4.
I kinda doubt if they are that tasty at the store but I could be wrong.
I guess I should try the flowers now.
Thank You 🙋♀️
We love them wild edibles! Thanks Haphazard Homestead
Well, look who's here -- so great to have you stop by, Papa Pepper! Hope things are going well with you and your family - and all the critters, domestic and wild, in your area. I know you are a great fan and harvester of the wild food! Have a great 2023 foraging season -- it's greenbrier season, too! :D
Thank you for your really valuable content. Looking forward to your videos.
You're welcome, Dr. Venus Williams. I hope you can enjoy some of the plants around you this spring!
Thank you. I am looking forward to the wild leeks and stinging nettles for soup and the nettles for tea....
Yummm! You know what's good out there! :D
Rapini in Northeast Ohio 1 bunch is $2.69, In Kingston NY it is $1.99 on sale. Love the Channel
Thanks for that prompt rapini price report, Ky Brancaccio! So my harvest was worth $2 to $32 between Ohio and NY -- and there is surely wild field mustard around both those places. I hope you can find some for yourself in your area! :D
I love your channel! Thank you for posting!
You're welcome, Teri Anderson! I'm glad you're enjoying my videos, and hope you'll like the upcoming ones, too. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Hi Ms. Holly, I don't know it's the same plant. I found them grown bunches of them here in middle of Georgia. I get so excited when I see them. I picked more than I needed. It's looked almost the same as yours. I sauteed them with garlic and oyster sauce, yep..that's all you need! The younger one makes the best pickles too!
Why aren't you in CZcams anymore? Miss you, how you telling us to eat weeds.
Please post more of your know how and great knowledge. Thank you!🙏⚘
Absolutely love the brassicas! I’ve been munching on wild field mustard already today and will be heading back out to harvest a bunch more this evening ❤️
Love this so much. Thank you, very encouraging and inspiring a young person like myself to get more connected with nature and god. Thank you for just being you. “Dont give up”
Just great information! careful wild foraging tips! Video is always a treat!
I'm waiting on the field mustard, so I can harvest it & eat it. I'm excited. ❤️ this video. Thank you for sharing Holly
God bless you for sharing your knowledge! We’ve just moved back to Oklahoma and I’m trying to relearn the plants from my childhood. I’ve yet to find a good foraging friend. So glad to have found your videos!
My mother's eldest sister married a man from outside of grants pass 20 years ago, and was lucky enough to have many months under my belt in the pacific north west thanks to it. Rogue to Crater lake mostly, but still seen some of Oregon. Thank you for your videos. Will be back doing long hikes and it's nice to know what tucker is 100% worth a clean and a cook. Field guides aside.
I'm glad you've been able to experience the beauty and charm of the Pacific Northwest, Ana Sevi! Wild Field Mustard is definitely one of the wild greens that is worth the effort to harvest, especially when those flower stalks are just forming or just starting to flower. There is a lot of food for just a little effort. Happy foraging!
Thanks for another wonderful video. I always learn something from your videos, even with plants that I'm fairly familiar with. Today the tip about using a duller knife during harvest felt so obvious once you said it, and yet I had never thought to do that. I usually end up sorting out the coarser bits once I'm home and sorting/processing. Could save myself a lot of time and space if I just don't bring those coarse stems home to start with! Though the compost pile doesn't seem to mind either way. Can't wait to find out what you'll teach us in the next one!
I would love more recipes, I just found a very convenient spot!
That's so great that you know where to get some wild field mustard, ArtichokeHunter! You have got some good eating ahead of you! Any recipe that uses sturdy greens (like kale or collards) will work well with wild field mustard. It doesn't cook down in size like spinach. It's great in any hearty soup, too.
Your videos have been truly knowledgeable and engaging. I've been studying plants, weeds, mushrooms for over 10 years, and you speak about detailed features that are stated in a lot of books. Most importantly, identify when it is time and how to harvest, "what am I harvesting?" Truly going out to see how the seasons have changed as well what's been brought in (what is an invasive). Thank you for your mindfulness and your care.
Excellent Demonstration 👍👍👍
Thanks, TUJS! I hope you can enjoy some of this great plant yourself sometime! Happy spring!
@Haphazard Homestead Thanks yes, You always have a great way of presenting information. Hey ,I ve been picking Japanese Knotweed, Nettles, Garlic Mustard and Pennycress for the last 2weeks, Pennsylvania 🌿🧙♂️🌼👍I was so eager that I was grabbing the Knotweed shoots as soon as I saw them emerging👍
You are eating well! That all sounds so good! The little emoticons in your message are so perfect -- happy foraging and enjoy all that great wild food! :D
@@HaphazardHomestead Knotweed Breakfast I just uploaded if you want to check it out 🍝😻
I planted some daikon seeds for sprouts outside in pots. They didn’t make a root crop, but I’ve been pulling eating the young plants as I walk past to do chores for months. They are tall now with pink flowers and I tried one very tasty green fat seed pod the other day! I’ve lately been just snapping off a huge lush leaf to munch. Will start looking for these in the wild. I thought they were canola or something! I saw some out on a dirt road while doing census, so will check for seed pods and get them started here in my meadow! Great video. Why must you blanch them? I’m sure there’s a particular reason some things must be blanched and others don’t need it. Blessings!
Great video on how to locate, harvest and preserve this wild plant. If I find some I will try and can it since we don't have freezer space, might even dry some. Good tip about using a duller knife as it's not fun finding tough strands of fiber while eating☺ Thanks for another informative video for wild foragers!
Hey, Tall Cedars, I hope things are going well with your health! There's at least one confirmed observation of this plant in Whitehorse, Yukon Territories, so it does grow in the far north. It's above the Arctic Circle in Eurasia, too. Wild field mustard would be good for canning, I think, because it's sturdy, like kale. I hope you can find some in your area!
@@HaphazardHomestead Thank you, healing is slow but progressive🤗
Wild mustard doesn't look hardy but it fooled me, lol. That's encouraging it grows so far north of us and will keep an eye out.
Will definitely be on the search for it this summer! Thank you for another wild green to add to my foraging list🥰
Springtume plants are just now coming alive and beginning to bud here. I will keep my eyes peeled for some good ol wild field mustard in the coming weeks and months though
This stuff is great too fermented in with other veggies
Thanks for adding what your do with wild field mustard, starless mystery! I ferment a few different plants, but I've never tried it with this one. I do chop those thick stalks and put them in pickle juice for refrigerator pickles. But I'll give the fermenting a try, too! :D
I love this delicious plant too! Wonderful video.
Thank you for another great video !! 😊
You're welcome, Anthony B.! I hope more people can really enjoy the wild field mustard growing out there. There's a lot of it! :D
@@HaphazardHomestead I'm looking forward to it 😊
I hope many others are too !! 😊
One of my favorite channels.
Just finished my big bowl of greens. 😊😊😊
Ooooh, I'd love to see what you like to do with the seed pods!
The wild field mustard is a plant of many uses -- tip to tail!
Good to see you posting. I missed your videos.😊
I"m happy to be back posting, too, Maria S. Thanks for watching and commenting! Happy spring!
Love to see another educational/instructive video from you! Will be on the lookout!
I hope you can find some of this great plant in your area, Donna Leveron. I have seen it in many places around the U.S., from fall through spring.
I made a similar video on my other channel this week -- I know the more technical name is wild field mustard but I always call it wild broccoli. I love it chopped raw in salads.
Love the great information
Thanks, Connie Moore. I hope you can enjoy some wild field mustard, too! :D
Very interesting and informative. Keep growing the channel. It will be awesome. Will be waiting for more.
Thank you Holly!
You're welcome, LGNAH! You have some good foraging up in your area, too!
Love your knowledge!
👍 watching again today.
I plan to watch for wild field mustard this fall/winter/spring here in north Texas. Also dandelions and Sow Thistle. I was able to harvest some seeds from wild plantain weed and plant in one area of my backyard. They seem to be growing well this fall.
I'm really surprised how many locations i found wild plantain weed growing this past summer in the harshest locations. Especially along dirt walking trails.
Anyway, hope to have a much more successful fall/winter/spring here in north texas than this past hot 🔥 summer.
You are coming into prime time for wild field mustard in your area, MLRuss! I've seen so much of it in the Waco area around Thanksgiving and have harvested it for Thanksgiving dinners there. Autumn is the new spring for wild greens, lol. Happy harvesting!
@@HaphazardHomestead
Thanks for your reply. Your channel is my favorite for learning about edible wild plants. But I do watch other channels and have purchased a couple of books. I'm very careful about staying with the plants I am familiar with but have learned a lot over the last 6 or 8 months or more. In fact learning about wild plants has taught me even more about the plants in the garden. Anyway thanks for your reply and I'm sure I will rewatch some videos now that we are getting into the cooler weather.
I'm the only guy I know who gathers dandelion seeds to plant in my backyard. Lol 😆 🤣 😎
I was just thinking of you the other day while I was cooking up my polk weed.
So many good tips & close-ups. Now I for sure know what to look for.
And what to do. Thank you & hope you have a happy Easter.
Very nice, you enjoying your poke weed, Simple Man! You know what's good food! But this wild field mustard is good, too, for some variety. And even folks that don't care for other wild greens generally like wild field mustard. But you have got my mouth watering about poke, lol. Happy Easter!
What a wonderful harvest of wild mustard greens 🥬 + free! We have wild mustard growing as well, but I’ve never tried any. I’m excited to do a taste test. Our chickens free-range and munch on most of them. 🥰🥬
Your Tatsoi is a refined version of wild field mustard (Brassica rapa). It's amazing to me that turnips, tatsoi, bok choi, Napa cabbage, and rapini all come from the wild field mustard. You are nice to let your chickens enjoy your wild greens! :D
I love your content so much!!! You are a god send!!!!!!!! We are so similar and I'm so happy that I'm not alone.
What an amazing video!!!! Thank you!!!!
I sure do miss you and your videos. I hope you'll be back again! I hope youre doing well!
Oh, so liked and subbed! Kind lady, thank you for sharing this knowledge 🙏🏼
Where did you learn all of this ? Grandparents/parents or in school,it's definitely good to know all of this .. especially now a days .. your videos are so informative and pleasant to watch
Oh yeah shes back thank you
Recipes you use your wild field mustard in. Thx for the video
Hope your homestead is doing well!
Thanks for sharing! 👍
Amazing content, thank you!
Love it , thank you
Thanks!
The Azerbaijan channel I follow just harvested a ton of field mustard, she just "hand harvested", rip, rip😁 the thicker stems all went into the "stew". I still have to find some around here, but the birds bring all kinds of seeds!
Price for Rapini/ Broccoli Raab where live here in Michigan is $2.99 for tiny bunch. I like wild mustard and wild daikon. I pick a lot and I'd ferment a couple gallons. That would last me a whole year in the refrigerator
Good video.
Glad you enjoyed it, MN Salamander!
@@HaphazardHomestead You're the best.
I hope everything is going well in your life. I have been a fan of yours for a long time and am also a valley local… I recently made a foraging zine and I’d love to send one to you.
We call it Khirdaleh خردلة
It's heavenly to munch on while eating labaneh, bbq, hummus, or pretty much any food.
Whoa you are back
Hope your doing ok!
I've got some plants that look like wild mustard but the flowers have more than 4 petals. Wonder what it is.
Hey, Ann, thanks for stopping by! If you ever put a picture of those plants in one of your videos, let me know and I'll check it out. The way the leaves clasp around the stem is distinctive for some other plants with more flower petals, too. Plants are so interesting. Happy spring and enjoy your chickens!
@@HaphazardHomestead I'm going to go out and look at them again today. And I'll surely get pictures once the flowers start blooming!
I’m growing a rare perenial mustard/broccoli called Turkish rocket it is sold to online from Etsy as a perenial broccoli substitute I’m very excited for it to grow recommend to grow the roots are suppose to be edible. It is like perenial broccoli rapini there other perenial broccolis I’m want to get like tree collars, sea kale, nine star perenial broccoli. I don’t have wild mustard like that annual kind there is some I know grow but there rarer. I have tons of garlic mustard and bittercress which I think are cool but I’m very excited for my Turkish rocket.
The whole mustard family is so interesting. I've got some of the perennial tree collards, but I have never heard of the Turkish rocket, so I had to go look around. Bunias orientalis - one of the mustards I've never heard of before. They look beautiful and delicious. The more perennial crops you have handy, the easier it is to harvest and eat. Happy growing!
@@HaphazardHomestead yay it is a good plant I’ve heard it can be little invansive like it cousin horseradish bu the leaves make great compost and seeds are hard to grow because they need 4 months I think of freezing to sprout the roots are very easy to grow and can grow like horseradish which I aslo have. They sell Turkish rocket on Etsy from punflowers and 1k seeds. I have other perenial vegables like walking onions and perenial lambs quarter aka good king Henry plant.
I hope all is going well for you.
They are so delicious
If you are mainly vegetables fans, pungent mustard greens can be salads to pickle and steamed dishes. I just watch You Tube film, she made fruit tree floret pancakes to fill fast.
Ahhh well I picked mine and they were flowering. I ate the leaves and flowers😬. That was the second week of April I think.
You've been eating well, zellar43, with that wild field mustard. Even with the flowers, those tops are good, as long as it's all tender enough. Happy foraging!
I would love to learn how to grow mustard greens kale or turnip greens here in Virginia! Can you start from seeds?
Now, I just need to find Lamb's Quarter and stinging nettles! 😭😭😭😭
My wild garlic is healthy btw. I use it in many dishes. ALMOST GOT BIT BY A COTTONMOUTH, HARVESTING GARLIC. WHAT PLANTS ARE GOOD 2 KEEP SNAKES AWAY?
Wait your in Eugene? Well howdy neighbor! I’m up the McKenzie and forage on my property! Small world! Hit me up if you wanna go foraging
can you please be my neighbor Your video was excellent all the majors points and explained fantastically!!
I'm glad you enjoyed all that wild field mustard, Donna Riggs! I hope it's one of your neighbors! Thanks for stopping by and commenting - and happy foraging!
@@HaphazardHomestead I'm trying just don't know how to harvest and prepare some things...You have done a super job in the whole beginning to end. just loving it can you say what state you are in...I now live in Missouri...lots of untouched, unpoisoned land out here if you don't include chemtrails and that poison. Thank you and I will subscribe and learn more. Blessings!!!
Hi Holly, have you checked the size of the wild mustard roots?
I just freeze my greens without blanching and never noticed a problem.
Thanks for sharing, gphx. With any of these wild greens, they can be handled just like somebody is used to doing for any similar garden greens.
I love eating wild mustard
Hope you are ok!
I'm working on more videos, MoniMeka. I appreciate your deep dive in watching a lot of my videos and commenting on them. I do read them all, but get behind in answering them. This is a haphazard homestead, alright. Hope you are having a great summer.
HOW DO I HARVEST THE SEEDS, & PLANT WILD FIELD MUSTARD IN MY YARD?
I have been looking for the recipe of dandelion burger since you have mentioned in one of your video, but cannot find it . please can you give us the recipe of it
Do bees like them flowers?
How can I purchase seeds to this plant when I look it up mustards come up but not the wild field
I know it's been 3 months since you posted this video but, i hope you get this notification, i just found you and i an so appreciative of you and these videos!!!!! Not many videos on how to use/cook or store these amazing plants. Please please don't stop posting 🙏🙏🙏 we need more people like you and if i had the money i would just send it to you so you could afford to keep teaching us😊i bet there's more of me whom need a teacher like you😅 thank you so very very much🙏❤️🩹❤️🩹
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I want to grow some wild black mustard and bought some seeds for it but unfortunately it didn’t come up
Too bad about your mustard seeds, starless mystery. I hope you can find some flowering wild mustard growing as weeds in your area and get some of their seeds when the pods mature. Those seeds will be so vigorous!
@@HaphazardHomestead I grow several kinds of mustard. Just love the stuff
So strangely, comics run in her film theme in lines and finger touches before showing up her faces!!
Has anybody heard from this lady? She’s my go to on edibles and this has been a year ago. 🙏
Hi Renee, I've had other obligations this past year. But be on the lookout for new videos starting in May!
@@HaphazardHomestead awesome…!!! Much Love and Respect for you!!!
@@HaphazardHomesteadWe miss you! 😊
This is rapeseed yes
Thanks for adding that, Micheal S. There are a few different Brassica species that get called rapeseed (also called canola). Brassica rapa (wild field mustard) is one of them. The B. napus is the most common. I've read that it's a cross between B. rapa and B. oleracae (the same species as regular broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower). The history of the mustard family is so interesting, complicated, and still changing with genetics research. The Brassicas have been cultivated into so many different crops that look so different from each other. And people have used different parts, from the roots to the seeds, in so many different ways. Enjoy all those mustards! :D
@@HaphazardHomestead I love the stalks ,reminds me of broccoli. I'm in the UK and this is is grown commercially for the seed oil
Raoeseed oil). But theres lots of escaped wild ones .Thanks
What is this "wild field mustard does not get bitter" stuff? Ours is pungent as hell.
Thank you for posting more videos. I look forward to them.