Plants in your yard- Mantisoutdoors

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I get alot of questions about local plants are they edible are they poisonous hopefully this video will help with that and i throw in some tips on cordage making as well

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hey how you guys doing this is William Myers miss outdoors and I get a lot of pictures and questions on Facebook like hey this is growing in my yard what is this you know and pictures from you know the woods it seemed like things like that so we're going to go through my yard real quick and we're just going to show you the majority of the plants that are in my yard and hopefully that will help dispel any mysteries about what the some of them are in your yard obviously we're in a city we got cars and kids so please excuse the noise but let's go ahead and see if we can show you some of the things that hopefully in your yard obviously if you live in you know California and parts of Florida and southern United States it's going to be completely different for you but the majority of the country usually has most of these plants so let's go over here I guess we can start out well would you start out over here I get a lot of this this is a mulberry make it hates those they're everywhere we got some maples over here you can tell maple alright so those are those are not really the plants with their trees but anyway these are red clovers and these are white clovers show you the difference that will grow often very very close to each other but there are two different species white clovers in my opinion don't taste very good red clovers taste amazingly sweet all right here are some violets and we don't have the flat well we have one old flower down here but these are the leaves of the violet and that's a majestic Taco Bell rapper yeah well we are in the city so we get my hair clean or no all right this is narrow leaf doc I'm sorry whoo this is narrow plantain sorry oh I know where some doc is I got three different fish the doc Oh baby but uh sheshe dish i'm doing a video so this is narrow leaf doc and government I did it again narrowly plantain this is narrowly plantain you can always tell the plant ah gross species cookies deep veins and if you pull and he said this is always a key indicator if you can see the stem is sort of like a canoe that's how it the rosette channels water into the roots that's one kind of key indicator it's got some strawberries astral breaking the lights to me okay right here this is a column in one that I get sent to me this is actually common mallow well so this stuff is actually some people nickname this cheese's because if you see here where the flowers grow after the flowers grow it buds out here's one that's starting and what's in there is a flower right now but after it's done flowering it'll have like almost a nut to it and that nut is really good actually contains protein one of the few things out here that does and then right in front of it this is what soil yeah very very good mama kisses favorites all right more narrowly oh my gosh where I keep on the dock merrily plantain

Merrilee plants in there alright so let's go over to you this is another common one that I get you got to kind of come over here and when you're out the shade this is Gil over the ground or trumpets as it sometimes cold people make tease out of this stuff like that I don't think it's very good let's move on here we showed narrow leaf plant tank this is broadly planting again you see that canoe that channels water into the middle of the rosette here and those deep veins on the back very quickly let's move on now kind of want to make a quick video there's also another common one that again I think the reason why i commonly get this one is because of its coloration and you know in nature you know colorations usually mean like poison or bad or things like that it's why we're really bright color frogs or poisonous and you know that's just a Nature's Way of saying hey I'm deadly but that's not the case here this is a purple dead nettle and it's a lemony CA it's in a mint family you tell that by its its squares stem there you go purple dead nettle well okay let's not move on then what we have here is poke this is pokeweed and this is too old to eat but to me is too old to eat after I start to see more of the stem down here I would call this not good you have to boil the heck out of this to make it good but Pope weed is good poke salad is a southern staple but uh this is this is too big but after it gets so big it's either inedible or takes too long to boil in my opinion okay violet fell through there but with that nano here's a good one this is garlic mustard this stuff's good a little trailside nibble or you can make I know a lot of people make pesto's out of this I haven't done that for years but garlic mustard is a very incredibly invasive species that grows rampant so you know all these species that are you know really really crazy growers I suggest we use them you know like parsnip things like that use them eat them take advantage of them that grow so fast they take over just make use of them oh thank you okay and of course yeah and Alliance very very all right so what we have here is Japanese knotweed and most of the time when people see this growing in her yard they start freaking out oh gosh the stuffs just gonna take over again the same thing with the garlic mustard just use it you know just all throughout the growing season just just use this though you know and at the end of the season dig up the roots and drive them slice them and drive them soak them in alcohol and that's tincture for this season you know this type of season tix season you know for Lyme disease and things like that tons of reserve control and more than the guilt grapes and red wine stuff like that it contains a little bit this the roots of the Japanese knotweed contain a lot of reservatrol start probably saying out a little bit wrong but still my messages there this is an amazing trailside nibble one of my favorite is too little just a little snack on you know the taste tastes like a sour apple kind of in my opinion there granny smith so really really good trailside double good thing to know about but you see on the stem if we can get a good shot of that so there's purple flakes now you see those purple flakes but you see this big hand size leaf right here you know I mean that's huge but those purple flakes freak people out because of this because of this I don't know if you're gonna be able to see that down there I don't even like touching this plant be honest with you but this is poison him look and the brain alkaloids that are on this can actually see through the skin osmosis Lee if you have a ton of the juice on you but you know this is the plant that Socrates asked for a tea made up when it was time for him to go this what I have grown right here I'm gonna eliminate soon but what is going right here would kill my whole family and then some so we're gonna have to get rid of it but you know people see that the Japanese knotweed know the purple flakiness through it oh that's that looks just like the saying that's on poison hemlock you would never in a million years mistake japanese knotweed for poison hemlock because of the size of that that leaf all right right here this is a pretty poor example of but this is a broad leaf doc that's broadly talk over here this is a burdock and this plant if you know this plant this is an important plant to know this is food I mean this is a lot of food sometimes this plant could have a root system that grows 8 10 feet sometime in dead oh it's a lot of digging to get to it because absolutely vertical know so it's not like a rhizome it grows against the ground it grows eight nine foot sometimes down now saying all of them do but I've seen pictures of some that are bigger than you know really big guys but uh and that that route could be peeled and boiled and tastes great daughters getting cranked for sure what he'll kick in here man i'll remember something but uh let's go back and look at that japanese knotweed that's from a sucker all right so Japanese knotweed here one of the really good things about it I remember where this is like I said it's a really good trailside Nevel but if we want to get this first layer off and to do that I just like like you seen I'll simply break the stock in half and then I'll peel it just like this it's important the reason why I'm going so slow is because i'm going to show you something as that peels straight off just like that and peels down yeah yeah and then we can curl around take another big strip I'm getting big strips for a reason I love you too no now we can we get that strict up and he's can't chew on us like that but come over here to my tree stump I'll show you something alright so got these really big strips here just kind of lay them down this Japanese knotweed I found makes cordage that is stronger makes cordage is stronger than dogbane and that's really really strong cordage mm-hmm that's the leaf of Jeff and are everybody's bringing me plant is she Thank You Megan alright so we could just kind of clip this off okay gratuitous mantis shop so species they're shiny alright so I've already got one started here and this is to ply reverse rat portage and this stuff is really fibrous really strong that's why you can't just pick the Japanese knotweed and eat it just as it is because that outer layers really fibrous but I've showed in videos before how to do this but I'll just kind of go through a little short tour to Oreo Oreo total war ii put the Royal tortoise because i'm almost at a spot where i need to splice in so all I'm doing is I'm taking my top strand just like this and I'm twisting that away from me away from me and then with this finger I'm picking up that bottom string and I'm turning it process all over again spin top grab bottom turn it away towards so right now this is getting really thin so I want to splice in a fresh piece you just do this one right here no

now all I do is I splice it in advancing proud of that the cordage that I'm making just like this and then I spin it just like I would the regular court away and then I start on my way toward weight or the way toward and then this piece is now spliced in and it's gonna stay that way and that's how we make cordage and that's another frequently asked question that I get is how do I make two ply reverse rat portage there you go it's a small demo make it a foot or two of this ain't nothing make it fifty foot of the stuff take you all day but that's place that we did you just come in here chop it never even knew it was there alright guys well hope you enjoyed this video again it's just a little short walk to my yard to show you guys plants through my or like I said I get pics and videos and things like I have questions about some of the plants letter in people's jars some of them are actually very afraid you know hey it's this poisonous I have kids on and on so hopefully this will help somebody out you know they'll see this video so okay so it's not poisonous or it is in my case not poison hemlock in my backyard but again hope you enjoyed this video appreciate all your views comments and support and we'll see on the next one