I've got chard that overwintered in a covered bed, walking onion tops, carrot and radish seedlings, & herbs that I've been making into salads. As of a few days ago, I have a few little stalks of asparagus too!

Collards, including the buds as it bolts. I've been eating the buds raw. Purple sprouting broccoli. Brussels sprouts...they are tiny. I have lots of lettuce, had Austrian winter pea greens up till last week. Ate the kale, except for the one I am letting go to seed, but small ones are planted, Yokatta Na (pac choy), mache, sorrel, salad burnet, rhubarb, sage, rosemary. Some chard has some new leaves I think we will eat soon. There are a couple of spinach volunteers in the onions that are bigger than what I set out. The asparagus is only a year old, but I would eat it if I had to. Green onions. Wild garlic, garlic chives, regular chives, volunteer cilantro. There is plenty of chick weed and hen bit and dock, which are supposed to be edible. I have not seen lambs quarters this year. You can keep the dandelions, I let them grow for bees and lady bugs, but didn't care for eating them. Can you eat white dutch clover? I have plenty of that.

Nothing...but that's why I lurk and learn from you guys!

We'd be eating strawberries, asparagus, lettuce, pea shoots (no peas on plants yet), kale, green onions, Swiss chard, beet greens, collard greens, spinach, cauliflower leaves, cabbage leaves and broccoli leaves (though we normally don't eat the leaves of those plants...it is just that if we had to, we could), fennel, dill, rosemary, basil, lemon balm, catnip (you can make catnip tea), cilantro, sage, chives, garlic chives, garlic leaves, radishes, mesclun mix, flat-leaf parsley, curled parsley, nasturtiums, violas, redbud flowers, honeysuckle and....among the weeds, dandelions, lambsquarters, henbit, chickweed, curly dock, cattail, yarrow, Prickly Pear cactus, pigweed (both Palmer's Amaranth and Redroot Pigweed), purslane, wild garlic, wild onion, dead nettle, wood sorrel, and cleavers. If we took the time to go foraging carefully through the woods, we might find a couple of kinds of mushrooms, including yellow morels, and we might find acorns, pecans or black walnuts that held onto the trees and recently had dropped (though they might not be fit to eat at this point). Dewberries are in bloom but don't have fruit yet.

thank you all :)

Yeah I could eat prickly pear till I exploded off my place. And it is actually pretty good cooked up like onions and peppers to throw on tacos. BUT I do not do it often because ours has needles. They are a pain to deal with. Even the store bought spear free kind has little needles. I do not like redbud, but would eat it to survive I guess. I do not have any flowers planted out yet. But there is a patch of pansies that got started in the yard when we used to have ducks. They would pull them out of the flower beds and leave them in that part of the yard. Now every spring we have a random splash of color there. Can you eat pansies?

I guess though I would really starve. Or not ever be satisfied. I do not know enough about the weeds. The ones I do know about I do not like. It is no wonder most gardeners do not cultivate them for food. Just cause you can does not mean you should! The garden has onions, garlic, and asparagus. A few herbs-sage, parsley, cilantro, and carrot tops if you include that as an herb. The carrots are not big enough yet. All the lettuces and cabbages are way to small to eat. My random perennial crop of potatoes has come up again this year. I might dig them this year.

All in all I would look outside the garden and eyeball the chicken house!

Sounds like we could go to dawns to keep from starving. If all goes well I will have ton of dehydrated foods put up this year. Today is bananas I was gifted 2 1/2 cases.

You can eat pansies. Normally they are eaten sprinkled on top of salad or candied/sugared and added as a topping to some sort of dessert. I generally don't like eating flowers, but if I had to, I could. I left borage off the list. We could eat borage.

I didn't list chickens or their eggs because, technically, they aren't growing in our garden, but of course we eat the eggs all the time. We don't slaughter and eat our chickens, but we could if a crisis occurred and we needed them for meat. Of course, we wouldn't eat them all because we still would want the eggs. We have guns and bullets and plentiful wildlife, so we could supplement our garden meals by shooting game.

I don't eat weeds. I know you can. I know people who do. My dad loved lamb's quarters and poke sallet, but I've never acquired a taste for them. However, if we had to eat them, I imagine we would. Lamb's quarters are so common here that we probably have enough on our land to feed all of Oklahoma, and the same is true of pigweed. Some years it seems all I do is pull lamb's quarters and pig weed out of every bed. There must be enough seeds of them buried in our soil to give me plants for the next 75 years.

Y'all could come here and eat to keep from starving, but if everyone came here, our food would run out pretty quickly. We'd have to turn into a roving band of hungry gardeners and roam the countryside scavenging food. At least in this part of OK there's tons and tons of native fruit everywhere at certain times of the year.

Two and a half cases of bananas is a lot, Kim. You'll be busy dehydrating them. Bananas also freeze well. Do you have a YoNaNas machine? I do. With this machine you can turn any frozen fruit into a delicious ice cream type dessert that is 100% fruit.

Yonanas

No I don't really like bananas. They are too sweet for me but I am making a pumpkin banana fruit leather. I also have squash if I like the leather I will do more.

Poke is one weed I do like. It just seems like most of the weeds are far to bitter. Maybe I pick them at the wrong time.

I think most weeds are bitter too and that's why I don't like them. Supposedly they are less bitter early in the season while they are small. I don't care. I'm still not going to eat them. I feed them to my compost pile and let it eat them.

Right now someone could feast on a lot of very young lamb's quarter in my garden, but it would have to be quick because it will soon be missing. I only have a small portion of my garden that isn't mulched and lamb's quarter will grow in every inch if I let it.

Same thing here. If I left the lambs quarters alone, it would be all we have, and we could call this place "Lamb's Quarter Acres", or for that matter, the same thing is true of pigweed. How does "Pigweed Gardens" sound?

What a fun question! Right now I would be starving! LOL...I would be eating lettuce, parsley, radish greens, maybe pea shoots (as there is no peas yet) and hen-bits....

We probably would have been starving in January, other than eating weeds, but I planted cool-season crops early this year and the warm weather has really made them grow quickly. The cool-season crops haven't grown this quickly in many years, and it is a nice change of pace. For once, my cool-season crops may finish up in time for me to plant their warm-season succession plants at what seems like the right time to me. Usually the cool-season crops are kind of pokey and I am mentally pushing them to hurry up and finish up and get out of the way to make more room for warm-season stuff.

Austrian Winter Pea leaves, collards, snow pea leaves and wheat grass

Tonight, from the garden we ate a salad made from 4 kinds of lettuce, kale, spinach and green onions along with homemade French onion soup (not made with onions from the garden since they still are so small) and strawberries that I picked this afternoon. Tomorrow we'll be eating asparagus, collards and spinach.

Last night I got the first radishes of the season! I love that when that happens because that means the rest are coming soon....

Congrats on the radishes! That's true about the rest coming soon! Since I'm so far south, my harvest always is ahead of those of you who are further north, but once your first radishes are producing, then everything else should be following closely behind.

We're now in a mad dash down here to keep up with the harvesting, eating and preserving of the asparagus and cool-season greens. As our temperatures crank up into the 80s over the next few days, the spinach is going to start getting unhappy, so I need to harvest it quickly. It doesn't last long once we get hot, and we've had too many hot days already. On the bright side, once the spinach is done, that leaves an open space to plant a warm-season succession crop.

Since the asparagus started producing a month early because of the winter that lacked true winter weather, I'm thinking it will end early as well, so I'm trying to keep up with harvesting it in a timely manner, which is hard to do as my focus is now shifting towards planting more warm-season crops. It is hard not to enjoy all the early warm and hot days we've had this year already, but they can push the cool-season crops along almost too quickly. I noticed yesterday that one lettuce plant is trying to bolt already.....maybe it was that 88 degree day we had a week or two ago. I have a gazillion little lettuce plants in flats, though, to use as succession crops, so today I'll just harvest it and then pop a new plant into its space. I planted my first lettuce plants in January, so they are aging now, but we've had a good harvest from them for some time and younger plants are coming along in different spots too.