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Garlic mustard · Lemon balm · Purple deadnettle · Wild garlic
📍 2585 Quarry Valley Rd, Columbus, OH 43204, USA
🗓 Season: March · April · May
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Garlic mustard: Heart-shaped lower leaves and triangular upper leaves; white 4-petalled flowers. Harvest young leaves before or during flowering. Raw taste is garlicky and mustard-hot. Seeds can be used as a mustard substitute. Invasive in North America.
Wild garlic: Star-shaped white flowers and glossy, oval leaves appearing in March–May. Harvest leaves before the flowers open for best flavour. Strong garlic smell confirms identification — do not confuse with toxic lily of the valley (no garlic smell). Bulbs, leaves, and flowers all edible.
Walking around the Quarry apartment complex, there is actually quite a lot of forageable food. Plenty of deadnettle, garlic mustard, and lemonbalm in the spring. Some wild garlic up the hill in the shade. Look out for all the hemlock, though. And the poison ivy.
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