Do you have the same reaction to chickweed? I always think of them as very similar texturally.
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What about you cut them in very small pieces with your fork and knife as you’re eating?
@Anphlo i do that too! Miners lettuce must be enjoyed fresh!
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Beautiful looking salad! So many nutrient rich ingredients in there!
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I love Claytonia! In Oregon I grew a packet from Johnny’s, they were tiny and pathetic. Especially compared to the native ones that happily grew huge everywhere all winter long. They grew amazing in my already densely planted lettuce and spinach beds. I would mix all three for some amazing salads (with the Claytonia stems removed.
I brought a few seeds with me to Idaho, I think they would do good in a greenhouse or cold frame as they seem to need a snow free spot.
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I bet there is some in the Mountains near you in Idaho too!
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I have really got to find some of the native miner’s lettuce we have growing in our mountains. I bet it’ll do great in my yard. Maybe I could ask my daughter to bring me home a few plants to replant in our yard next time she goes camping, if there are enough of them that it wouldn’t hurt the ecosystem at all.
Seeds would be even better, but last time she went camping, it was midsummer. When do miner’s lettuce have viable seeds that can be gathered? Is it fall, as with most things?
Oh, that’s cool! Perhaps that will help.
In Oregon, if I saw that the whole patch was flowering, there would be some with seeds. Very early there, like March. If you see them first flowering, there will be seeds very soon and their anual life cycle will be over soon. It amazed me how the plants had been resilient all winter would just melt into the grass at the first sign of spring.
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On my farm, I most commonly find claytonia growing in the maple groves.
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I’ll have to keep an eye out for it when the snow starts melting.
I hiked the lost coast in Northern California a couple weeks ago. Saw some Claytonia along one of the creeks we camped by, had a bit with my breakfast.
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Fun, my wife would be jealous of the lost coast.
Definitely a hike to have on the bucket list, kills the feat though walking in sand and gravel all day. We want to go back in a year or so but spend more time to explore up the streams.