Alien Invasion?

jssailem · Mar 21, 2018

Pod people alien spawn.

Will Gilmore · Mar 21, 2018

That's a thistle.
We have bull thistles around here. It looks a lot like a bull thistle with a pink instead of a purple flower.
They do sting, yet, a few changes of water and they are good to eat too. Goats love 'em.

- Will (Dragonfly)

jssailem · Mar 21, 2018

Does this look familiar?

Bull Thistle·

Description

Cirsium vulgare(Spear thistle, Bull thistle, Plumed thistle, Scotch thistle, Roadside thistle; syn. C. lanceolatum) is a species of the genus Cirsium, native throughout Europe, Asia and northern Africa, but also present in North America and Australia as an invasive weed. It is designated an "injurious weed" under the UK Weeds Act 1959 and a noxious weed in Australia and in nine US states.

jssailem · Mar 21, 2018

@Will Gilmore can James harvest them and make Thistle wine?

Ralph Johnstone · Mar 21, 2018

JamesG161 said:
We both quickly left the area.
Did the freeze cause the invasion?
Why were the Lots for sale, mysterious reason?
All of the houses had high speed power boats. Are they afraid too?

I'd recognize those anywhere .....................................

Benny17441 · Mar 21, 2018

Oh, this winter is too long, scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to pass time.

Brian D · Mar 21, 2018

If you look around, you might find a shamrock or two. Where there are shamrocks, there are thistles. (If you are Irish that is)

Will Gilmore · Mar 21, 2018

jssailem said:
@Will Gilmore can James harvest them and make Thistle wine?

Thistle is one of the plants on my list to try. I've read about them as a food, but haven't gotten to them, yet. I have no doubt they can be made into a wine. I just don't know what they taste like.
@JamesG161, if you haven't made dandelion wine yet. That's the one I'd recommend you make next. My wife and I have made three different batches and it's amazing. I tell people, whom I give bottles to as gifts, that they are getting a $350 bottle of wine, because if I sold them, that's what I'd sell dandelion wine for. I would market it as New England Garden Wine. We've named our brand, 'Blond Lawn'

There's a guy who publishes cookbooks about eating wild food called, 'Hunt, Gather, Cook'. He also has a Web site, if you are interested. https://honest-food.net

- Will (Dragonfly)

Roland5048 · Mar 21, 2018

Yep, a thistle. Have them in my backyard along with the clover. Playing havoc with my sinuses.

Kermit · Mar 22, 2018

Will Gilmore said:
...I've read about them as a food... I just don't know what they taste like.

They taste like chicken.

kloudie1 · Mar 22, 2018

Jim, we have more of them than normal this year too.. I think they may be more plentiful because of the over abundance of rain this spring..
We used to eat the long stalks raw when we found the plants on camping trips.. I recall they taste similar to celery. We'd clean off all the leaves and stuff and peel the harder outer layer from the hollow stalk.. Use gloves when cleaning them!

Will Gilmore · Mar 22, 2018

Kermit said:
They taste like chicken.

So... They taste like frog?

- Will (Dragonfly)

Kermit · Mar 22, 2018

Will Gilmore said:
So... They taste like frog?

- Will (Dragonfly)

Will Gilmore · Mar 22, 2018

@Kermit,

I apologize, I was out of line. I love frogs.

If the short video, I attached, works, that's the Borgan Frog. She lives, and rules, in our front pound. Been there since before 2013. Named for the main character in a story my son and my father are writing together. The Borgan Frog is a philosopher that presides over the pond like a philosopher king.

- Will (Dragonfly)

kappykaplan · Mar 22, 2018

Nice lookin' frog! Wonder if @Kermit will get jealous?

kappykaplan · Mar 22, 2018

A weed is a flower that's growing where you don't want it to grow.

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