Grow Your Own Drugs

[lynda66]

flippin heck i missed it

[piskieinboots]

oh noooo Lynda, t'was reet good AND he is a bit tasty
iplayer maybe?

[nelliegemini]

oh noooo Lynda, t'was reet good AND he is a bit tasty
iplayer maybe?

MMMmmmmm, want an eyecandy tree.

Ok, better now. The sleep pillow was good and the chicken soup looks fab. The facepack sketch seemed a little gratuitous. Years ago, when council funding for nightclasses was a little more forthcoming I did nightclasses in 'poisons from the hedgerow' and 'herbs for medicine and cosmetics'. The lecturer brought round clumps of stuff that would have caused serious grief if he'd had a car accident

OH got veerrryy nervous!

[kirsty b]

We really enjoyed that programme. Definitely going to give the kiwi/papaya facepack a go.

[lynda66]

oh noooo Lynda, t'was reet good AND he is a bit tasty
iplayer maybe?

Yeah would be a dead good idea if i had speakers on the pc lol ....... *wonders if they do subtitles on i player* *and wonders if the eye candy is worth having to read a whole programme for*

[di]

Well Darn I missed it too!!!...for some reason I thought it was on Tuesday night.

[selfraising]

Enjoyed this. Liked the idea about the hops. Don't they take over the garden a bit tho?
Our house was apparently built on old hop fields so the soil should be ok. I would love to have a decent nights sleep! Agree about the eye candy too!!!

[bramble]

I missed it as well., Just saw the time kindly posted by hotstuff.

[rana]

I recorded the programme and watched it later. The article on Gojiberries concerned me as I am sure (having repeatedly watched the segment) some of the 'wild' gojiberries were in fact woody nightshade berries. Woody nightshade can cause mild poisoning if consumed. Because both nightshade and goji are both members of the solanacae family the flowers are also remarkably similar.

If James Wong continues with his consumption of wild flowers and hedgerow plants I fear he may soon become an ex-ethnobotanist.

[piskieinboots]

....Because both nightshade and goji are both members of the solanacae family the flowers are also remarkably similar..

He did stress, often, that 'you' must be sure of what you are selecting as usable material.

I doubt I would go to the hedgerow instead of the chemist, due to lack of knowledge - but I certainly would if I was sure I know what it was.

[Pootle]

In all fairness he did say not to pick goji berries in the wild because they are easily confused with toxic berries!

Seemed like a good programme although it did feel a bit like stating the obvious in places - I liked him pointing out the stupidity of paying £2 for a punnet of blackberries when the hedgerows are full of them! Just hope it doesn't encourage too many people to come into the fields this year - foraging might become a little more tricky

[Comfreyfan]

Good programme - always looking for new things to try! I love having a day at home, brewing up all sorts of evil smelling stuff (I love my herbs, but when you start infusing or mascerating some of the smells can be pretty horrendous!) - but his recipes looked really delicious. But I'm more likely to use his suggestion that dried goji berries are available all year from health food shops! I don't seem to have any success growing berries at all

[bubblewrap]

In all fairness he did say not to pick goji berries in the wild because they are easily confused with toxic berries!

Seemed like a good programme although it did feel a bit like stating the obvious in places - I liked him pointing out the stupidity of paying £2 for a punnet of balckberries when the hedgerows are full of them! Just hope it doesn't encourage too many people to come into the fields this year - foraging might become a little more tricky

Punnets of blackberry's? I got mine by the bucket last year.

[HeyWayne]

I really enjoyed it (what I managed to catch in between Bean crying 'cos he had a trumpy tummy).

I wouldn't go out and pick wild mushrooms becasue I saw them on a cookery programme - so I'm unlikely to go berry picking on the same principle.

I never knew hops grew like that - I'd always presumed they grew low to the ground. Madness.

[Hilary B]

Hops are climbers. I've seen them growing wild (wonder whether the wild ones would be better for the pillow, wild herbs often ARE better medicinally than ones cultivated for a different purpose) but I always thought they were the FLOWER, and the sticky yellow dust was the pollen! There are lots of medicinal plants which are poisonous if used the wrong way.......