Hello. I have this growing in my wildlife pond. It looks to be the same i.e. watercress I have just eaten some for lunch - delicious! I usually have a small bunch once a week/fortnight.
I've eaten a bit of this stuff and it lives up to its name. I've found it can be a bit gritty though. Our rabbits never used to touch the stuff. I'd give them a big bowl of weeds and herbs and they'd scoff everything else but leave the bittercress.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Yes, the young leaves are tasty and a nice addition to a salad. Daisies are edible and the flowers from wild garlic look pretty in a salad but become strong and hot when they open, nicer when they are in bud.
Ground elder is great wilted into cooked potatoes and mashed like Champ. Also as Bubble & Squeak. Fresh young stinging nettle growth is great used in the same way.
The leaves of Hedge mustard aka Jack by the Hedge Alliaria petiolata are great in salads and I like them in a sandwich with slices of salami or in an egg sandwich.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have eaten it too. I thought it was my landcress that had self-seeded (in the cracks in the patio). I quite liked it, but I am not really a salad person so not made much use of it.
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Fresh young stinging nettle growth is great used in the same way.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.