I thought it’d be fun to share stories of time when teaching new gardeners, they did something shocking or unexpected! I will start 
Yesterday two of my friends came over to weed the garden area we all planted together. Neither of them has gardened before, and they are tending to a new plot we planted in the spring. It’s doing quite well, except that the focus crop, peppers, has barely come up at all. The long beans are doing great though. One of them got obsessed with eating the woodsorrel, and cleared away all of the sorrel just by eating it. Very helpful and efficient! I was ID’ing and tasting the plants, using taste to confirm and tell apart plants that were too small to tell, like the newly sprouted thyme and rosemary.
The other friend then ate a leaf off some plant and then asked me what it was. It was some nightshade, too small to ID but afaik nighshade leaves are all poisonous! I assured her that at worst she would get sick since it was a small amount. It seemed to be black nightshade or something similar. Then ten minutes later she ate some leaves off a radish looking plant and asked me what it was, again after she already ate it! I told her it was just some radish, then ate tasted a leaf myself. It had a kind of musty bitterness and I spat it out and told her it wasn’t a radish after all and why did she eat it if it tasted so nasty?
Anyway she got a pretty bad bellyache, I gave her water and some rolled oats to munch on and she got better after an hour or so.
Watch your new gardeners closely!!
