Yes yes yes! Love this feeling like we are a team now :)
Super good point about using our own conscious perception in place of dowsing rods. Indeed, the 'old folk' didn't need tools to do this work. Copper rods came later and only confirmed that which was already understood.
With that said, I see it as my mission now to provide unbiassed and accurate evidence for the various claims I have been making over the last six months and in order to do this I must take all factors into consideration. So if I have two pots doing a side-by-side test I need to be able to confirm that one pot doesn't have an advantage over the other. And this is where dowsing rods are useful. Not so much for us, but for those who come later, wanting to know this aspect of the experiment was accounted for. It won't be enough just to tell them it was a fair comparison because we felt it to be so. The lines are there and they can be measured. So for the purposes of clarity, I record them and avoid them for experiments.
Lovely wild salad there! Do you eat the borage leaves?
Found a whole field of plantain yesterday and never having eaten them before I am keen to get them into my salads.
Assolutamente I eat borage - but not in salads raw, as the wee hairs on the leaves are not conducive to eating. In a favourite dish, I steam them lightly, then add olive oil and black olives - or a touch of balsamic vinegar - this makes a perfect side dish: borage is one of my favourite greens - it has literally divine taste and texture - velvety and mealy, wholesome and even meaty.It has so much vitality in the taste: my friends from the city are always astounded.
As a kind of pesto to mix in with pasta/ rice/ tatties, more-well-cooked borage is also very good: it steams quickly, and can disintegrate if over-steamed: but at just the right consistency, it stirs into pasta etc nicely.
Plantain is abundant in my garden to; I have to sickle it back! I use young leaves in salads yes, but have not explored much with it. Look forward to hearing how you get on!
I haven't bought leafy greens for years: all are foraged, and I've never looked back! The idea of a leaf travelling a long way to get to me, or having and chemo treatment, is literally crazy. :-D
Buon apetito!Yes, @samstonehill ! And so many folks nowadays REALLY need the physical evidence, so it's key to helping the collective integrate the wisdom that they will need in the future - beautiful work you are all doing!
Thanks so much for the borage tips! Will try this out immediately :)