I would like to grow some bean sprouts too but I meant getting the plants for outside ready by growing the shoots in the window first coz Feb will be too cold and early :). I really want coriander - in Portugal there was so much we'd get bunches of it fresh whenever reqd.
Ah scrumping.....! Not heard that used, but then, not seen that many folk scrumping for apples and stuff. Scrumping wasn't something I did in my childhood in India. Blackberries ARE a fav. though and I have seen plenty of folk scrumping in the autumn.
Did they not have plants for foraging in India? I could imagine tropical fruits growing wild there.
He he, for sure...I do remember seeing berries at school (which was in the mountains) but life was otherwise in urbansprawl Delhi. We had a custard-apple tree and a guava tree at home which sometimes fruited, and two big mangoes which never did when I was a kid, but funnily enough started up just two years ago!
I also have a great memory of being taken to a lychee orchard once.
I'm kinda late getting my act together in terms of interest in own/wild grown foods. I recently saw on The CorbettReport that it's possible to eat a pine tree!
https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-pinetree/
I've heard of pine needle tea, even in school and that it was food in the cold winter when nothing else is growing. I'll have to look into that more.
...and parts of the bark are edible - can be cooked like pasta, eaten raw or ground into flour :D