Michelle asks the plant nerds if they have ever ate the horn of a hosta. The hosts then go on to talk about eating and cooking with plants. Mario shares a story about eating fiddlehead ferns. ***Disclaimer*** Not all plants are suitable for consumption.
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I want to change the topic because you said hasta and the little like horns has anybody tried to eat them apparently they’re edible and I’ve never done it I heard that too I have tried the flowers because somebody yes apparently the flowers are we have them on cakes and in salads but
Like I heard isn’t it in Japan where they eat the something like it’s supposed to taste like asparagus but I don’t really have like a hosta that I want to sacrifice to try this but then I’m why would you cut off your leaves like do you eat the
Roots no you eat like the Little Chute before it horn the the horn like before it unfurls you eat that and it’s supposed to taste like asparagus but I haven’t okay none of us have tried it we all love plants too much to eat them I have this really cool Botanical like
Cookbook that you can like it has you mix flowers and use flowers for like edible stuff and like they make like you know Funfetti cake with the sprinkles in it but they take a bunch of flowers and mix it in the cake batter and it’s so it’s the coolest cookbook ever so
Wouldn’t you agree that it’s the host’s um job to try everything that we suggest oh my gosh yeah when the hostes come up Mario you have to try it Mario Mario I’m DB a disclaimer for a podcast to say to audiences not to try plants in their
Landscape but dayes are edible too like the whole thing Roots stalked flow oh those are the delicious like the more orange the more this tastes like bell pepper really I’ve tried that goad all right my turn my turn dear listeners we want to take take this moment to share
An important message about the topics we discussed on this podcast especially when it comes to landscape plans while we Pro while we aim to provide valuable information and insights it’s essentially remember that not all plants are suitable for every landscape or eating or dating that that was very good
Or or eating or dating a ghost thing I will say that I have enjoyed I don’t know about enjoyed I did consume uh a Fiddle Head he’s got fiddle leaf I had a fiddle head fern sauteed have yall had those no that sounds good um I gotta
Show you this I gotta I gotta pull this up I don’t know if it sounds good it looks cute they were they quite delicious can you’all see those that’s you’re making oh s that does look good I mean yeah like here’s like what they can
Look like and they had like more of a spinach kind of consistency right um it was really it was really quite delicious where did eat that um where how when I don’t know I was in Boston I was doing a garden tour uh when I was in school and one of the
Gardens we visited they had a little kitchen and they um cooked dinner for us it was awesome it was an amazing amazing dinner and I I it was 15 year no 20 years ago so it’s been a minute but I think we should all try it again yeah we should this spring
Segment what do a cook off there we go like everybody brings a an a a Botanical dish to the podcast in Spring all right a future episode right there there you go um I will make sure that that disclaimer was read is read again we start reading it for everyone