This is the man we need back on television to save 2024!!! remind me of the old 90s learning shows like Bob Ross, Mr. Rogers, and Reading Rainbow

I think it is awesome that you are on you tube, you feed a lot of people. Thank you.

Thank you for your kind words... I like doing cooking ones when possible... a lot of my viewers won't like the fact I used bacon and cooked the food. But that's all right... To each their own.

I really appreciate how you show the different ages and how the leaves change. Also as you collect them and show the differences with the neighboring plants! I learned so much in this short video. Thanks for doing these. Look forward to exploring your website!

Such a great illustration and attention to detail that i'm confident I can pick the Sow Thistle and cook it! Thank you!

He treats these pokey little plants with so much respect!

Awesome vid.. please keep them coming and keep up the great work.

The sow thistle that grows in our yard has VERY prickly leaves! It has the yellow flower(s) on top and "bleeds" a white opaque ooze. I put some in my green drink (a combo of peeled 1/2 cucumber, 2 sticks celery, and green leaf lettuce(s) to fill the blender along with 1/2 cup homemade almond milk or water that I blend until pretty well liquefied, and then add 2 cups berries, in my case frozen and blend on high). That took care of any prickles!

in newzealand we call that puha ,us maori's have been eating this plant and the sow thistle plant for years and years ,boiled with sweet potato and pork or i blend it raw with chicpeas and garlic with seasoning for a dip ,fresh is best ,love your videos ,some of the plants or weeds we have in nz I didnt know we could eat them until now , there are some Māori mates behind my place that still live on bush tucker I am learning about when I see them from time to time

I have that, as well as the regular thistle. I didn't know them individually. Thank you so much for these videos!

the stalk bleeds a white liquid which is good to put on warts to dissolve them also its good to put on spider bites

Great video ! This information is extremely valuable !

Sonchus does have milky sap. If you have a similar plant with spines on the bottom side of the midrib it is probably prickly lettuces, (Lactuca serriola.)

Great video Green Deane, thank you; we have Sonchus growing in one of our planters but it doesn't have any flowers yet. I have picked a few of the leaves to add to my vegetable stirfry later 😊.

About queen palm fruit.... I erred on the side of caution in my pindo palm video. Queen palm fruit are "edible" when very ripe, but are also quite tough. They are also toxic when unripe. If you have a lot of queen palm fruit you might want to look into how to process them, perhaps a jelly.

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OG of content creator! so glad you are back!

Makes me want some more every time I watch it... and the vegetarian angle... a lot of people think that but life is too short not to have bacon.... Pork fat rules. A social group I belonged to for many years at annual gatherings had me cooking vegetarian dishes, which meant I had to go find some recipes. After about five years of that I asked why I got the vegetarian dishes every year and it was because they thought I was vegetarian... now pardon me, I've got mammoth turning on the spit....

I love your videos! *Goes and hunts for some Sochus*

Well, good! I'm glad! I ate me some sow thistle today, too! Delicious! Thank you for this video!

I'm almost 100% certain I ate this tonight. I stir fried it with chopped(shredded) chicken and other greens. There was no bitterness, but I added a lot of herbs, spices, chicken stock, balsamic vinegar, a tiny bit of honey ,and a few spoonfuls of spaghetti sauce. I think that was a good mask for anything bitter! ;) I do this with a lot of bitter herbs. It has not flowered yet, and is only just growing tall here in spring. The leaves look identical.

You're my hero. Thanks.

Other than very young leaves you do not add Sonchus leaves directly to a dish. You boil them in water first to reduce or eliminate the bitterness. Then you add them to stews et cetera.

Very thorough! Thank you! Also subscribed!

this man is the robin williams of foraging...i love it!

Ohh good. My favorite videos of yours are when you cook! ;)

I have tons of these growing around my property in central Texas, I never thought that the young sow thisle grew into the giant spiny plants that appear everywhere, and since we have had so much rain for the past 4 months, they are growning to monsterous sizes. Guess i have one more plant to eat now instead of mowing it down into mulch like I usually do :D

great video, i actually enjoy them raw, even the adults. they grow here in my garden. after 3 times i manged to say 'sow thistle' for 2 times fast without stumbling lol

Well, it's a good idea with this little group of edibles because their adult form is quite changed from their juvenile form where as wild lettuce (lactuca) looks about the same large as when small, just bigger.

I like the way you reply. everyone can easily read.

The thistles which you say are too much work are OK in mature sauerkraut. It can still spike your tongue so you have to be careful.. Also raw nettles, if you are tough enough.. :)

Great job!

Subscribed! Excellent & valuable!

That makes me ever more happy!

I love your videos! I’ve learned a lot. Like this plant I thought outside my house was sow thistle...is NOT! Didn’t touch it, just waiting to see what will turn up on what this mystery plant.

Awesome video, thank you!

@svaap3 I think that's called My Buddy and it was part of the canned music that came with IMOVIE.

Aaw, well, you seem like happy little man. Your idiosyncracies the way you speak is just adorable! And even better that you love the plants! Would it make you feel better if I said I was only 22? :P

Thanks... one of the problems with books is they are static where as plants are dynamic. They change, and often they don't look like the book at all... as for bacon...it, along with pop corn, are among the few foods whose aroma lives up to the taste. Coffee always smells great but does not always taste great.

thank you very much for this video - I found it very helpful!

I just ate some yesterday n now im seeing a video on sow thistle i ate them without trimming them the sticky ends cooked up very soft.

@bmcelhattan Yes, they can have a blue green tint or on older leaves a purple coloring.

@EatTheWeeds that's it thanks!

PS: On my site, way down on the bottom of the archives, I have an article on eating slugs and snails. Bon appetite, or as the Greeks say...kali orexi

need help I have sow thistle brachyotus dc seeds. I bought them from ebay I want to make a big bed of them.wanted to know what you thought.. you didn't mention these type, wasent sure if they were different.

I didn't think it was bitter either when I tried it raw. I got the impression that it was the Lactuca wild lettuce that was bitter and Sonchus wasn't

Thank you... Actually I did one a year ago, video 11 but I should redo it and update it.

Well they're the ones missing out. I love bacon!

Did that strainer come with the pot? If so where can I get one like that?

It would be awesome if you were on the west coast!

I found something that looks like a sow thistle but it doesn't have white sap. Small spines at the leaf boarder and when the leaf is torn there are small hair like a torn fabric. Underside has small hairs too. torn stem turns brown after about 10 minutes. Any idea what what it is?

I wonder about sow thistles that grow in very hot dry conditions and turn blue. I added some, once, to a stew, and had a bad tummy ache for some hours. It was the only time I tried sow thistle, and could've been due to fear and autosuggestion. But sow thistles growing in hot dry conditions don't look all green and lettucy like yours, but bluer. Would this affect the chemistry, inside them, making them toxic? I think I once read that even some vegie leaves can be toxic when plants are parched.

Thanks all.... and it never occurred to me that pronunciation would be an issue but then again how many times do we say "sow thistle" in a row over a few minutes? I really had to work at it to not mess it up once or twice. ... thank goodness for editing software...

Does the plant grows in new jersey?

Fanx! I'll try that next time. ;)

Yasou, Dinos. Maybe you could put your site link in your video description. I've been there before, but others might click on it.

In Identification, did you say this DOES have a milky sap? I think I have seen this plant all over the place in my area (DC) but I wasn't sure it was the right plant because I saw the milky sap which I thought was a no-no except in dandelions. Also, besides the edges of the leaves being prickly, the spine of the leaves are also on the back side. Am I looking at the right plant?

I second that!

nice cookin piano music! who is it?

My farmers market sells dandelion, but I think it's sow thistle because the leaves are over 1 ft long. How can I tell the difference? I was actually looking for a place that sells sowthistle, but the dandelion was as close as I found. It was recommended for medicinal purposes.

is there a specific sow thistle chickens prefer?

can you eat them raw? when they are small?

You boiled the leaves to make it soften or remove the bitterness? any medicinal effect? Thank you.

Every time I have tried to do that the post has been automatically deleted.

@ScottfromTexas well .. the question was are all thistles edible? True thistles (circiums) yes. But not everything called a "thistle" is edible. The sow thistle, while not a thistle, however, is edible. It is Sochus asper.

Five Stars!!

You are so cute!

Deane, please don't take this the wrong way (and I know it's off topic), but with your hair smoothed down like you have it here, you favor Adolph Hitler! If you were to remove your glasses, slick down your hair, shave all your beard, except for a small mustache, ... you would look exactly like him. Really! Again, thanks for the most helpful and entertaining video. (I'm going backwards, so I'm almost half way through your videos! I only wish I could remember even half of what I've watched...)

There is no sound to this video when I try to watch I have tried five times now ;( the ads have sound though hmm

i tried them and i did not think that they were to bitter. so its just a matter of oppinion

There can be other factors, such as age of the plant.

Does it taste like the leaves of a turnip plant?

what is a formosan thistle ? is it edible?

To a new eye, yes. There are some members of that family that are toxic... not kill you toxic, but make you ill toxic. That said, we should be past the season for so thistles except maybe in Greenland...

A weed is a plant growing where you don't want it.

I have never boiled, simply stir fried

Sow thistle Sow thistle Sow thistle!!! I did IT!! took me about three minutes though...

I thought I planted a bed of radish. I guess not.

Gee... even my mother never said that!

I am afraid the word "thistle" is getting in the way, as common terms can. The sonchus does not grow into a cirsium, a spiny sow thistle does not grow into a bull thistle. While both are edible in their own way, they are not the same plant. Indeed, the sonchus has spines that can be eaten when cooked, the cirsium has spines that can never be eaten. No amount of cooking will soften them.

No, you didn't miss anything. I have not done a video on mushrooms...

My fear is someone would go out and eat them. And the definition is a little difficult. How toxic is toxic? Most plants, 95%, are not edible. The most deadly locally are the water hemlock, the rosary pea, oleander and yew, that is, they can kill you quickly and medical intervention probably won't save you. Then there is a huge amount of plants that can kill you depending on your size, how much you ate, and how far away the hospital is. There are several dozen of those.

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in new zealand the maoris eat this as a staple diet,we call it puha?puha and pork bones mmmm.

Spam protection :( Not that people don't get around that anyway.

Yes, but they are bitter.

Eat the Bacon..... and a few weeds....

im in war with sow thistles because they invade my garden

You dumped all the good stuff down the sink :(

If sow thistle is so tasty, then why do you add bacon and a very strong cheese? To cover up the thistle taste is my guess!