Fiddleheads?

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CajuninKy Biggs, KY(Zone 6a) Apr 10, 2010

I found these up the hill behind my house. I saw an episode of Emeril and he was cooking fiddleheads. They looked like this. Anybody know if all ferns start like this?

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greenthumb99 Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Apr 11, 2010

Pretty much.

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CajuninKy Biggs, KY(Zone 6a) Apr 12, 2010

So how do you know which ones are good to eat?

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greenthumb99 Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Apr 12, 2010

The best strategy is during the growing season to find the locations where the species of ferns grow that you want to eat. Go to those locations in the following spring. Here is a link that you may find of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/08/travel/edible-ferns-of-new-england.html?pagewanted=1

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CajuninKy Biggs, KY(Zone 6a) Apr 12, 2010

Thanks for the link. Very interesting stuff.

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