Members ... Posted March 11, 2017 Members Share Posted March 11, 2017 Has anyone here ever grown fiddlehead ferns; the kind you pick and eat while they're still curled up? If so, how to you start them? can you buy fiddlehead seeds or plants? DO you have to find them in the wild and transplant them? I'd love to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fastjav390 Posted March 12, 2017 Members Share Posted March 12, 2017 (edited) 4 hours ago, Brother Stafford said: Has anyone here ever grown fiddlehead ferns; the kind you pick and eat while they're still curled up? If so, how to you start them? can you buy fiddlehead seeds or plants? DO you have to find them in the wild and transplant them? I'd love to know. You can eat them? I have a very tall fern in my back yard. The thing must be 10- 12 feet tall. It almost looks like a small tree but I can't find it on the internet. I'm starting to wonder if it is a fern and not something that looks like one. Edited March 12, 2017 by fastjav390 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ... Posted March 12, 2017 Author Members Share Posted March 12, 2017 18 minutes ago, fastjav390 said: You can eat them? You can eat some ferns, but others will taste terrible or can even be poisonous. Before you eat ANYTHING that's growing, be sure to POSITIVELY identify it first. Here's a bit of info on the edibles: Fiddlehead Ferns fastjav390 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators HappyChristian Posted March 12, 2017 Administrators Share Posted March 12, 2017 I've seen cooking shows that use them, but I've never tasted them myself. Are they similar to green beans in texture? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ... Posted March 12, 2017 Author Members Share Posted March 12, 2017 38 minutes ago, HappyChristian said: I've seen cooking shows that use them, but I've never tasted them myself. Are they similar to green beans in texture? I've heard they taste more like asparagus. HappyChristian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ... Posted March 14, 2017 Author Members Share Posted March 14, 2017 From what I have read so far, the Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) is the safest, tastiest and most common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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