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OP pawian  221 | 26293
24 Jul 2023   #451
Nope. This weed I mean is more popular. Practically everybody eats it.
Feniks
24 Jul 2023   #452
Dill?
OP pawian  221 | 26293
24 Jul 2023   #453
Sorry, no. Dill isn`t treated as weed here. If I find a wild shoot of dill in potato or corn patch, I let it grow.

Hint: I remove this weed to avoid problems with the law.
Alien  25 | 6069
24 Jul 2023   #454
Dandelion (mlecz)
Feniks
24 Jul 2023   #455
Hogweed? There was one type that was once used to make barszcz? There is also one that causes severe burns and is invasive.
OP pawian  221 | 26293
24 Jul 2023   #456
No. That burning barszcz is a weed but not food.

Hint No 3: it is an ingredient in food often served during popular holidays in Poland like Christmas or Easter. But if you like it, you can eat it any day.
Alien  25 | 6069
24 Jul 2023   #457
Christmas or Easter.

Poppy seed?
OP pawian  221 | 26293
24 Jul 2023   #458
Fek!!! Yes!!!! At last. :):)

In the field, wild poppies can be rampant weed which comes from nowhere. If there are too many, you can be accused of growing them in order to produce Polish heroin. If not to produce, then for sale. I have to avoid such accusations and even slightest suspicion, that is why I remove them as first.
OP pawian  221 | 26293
26 Jul 2023   #459
Each morning when I go the fields to work, I can hear a hollow noise which comes from my neighbours` fields. Two objects hitting each other. Bang! Bang! Bang! every 3,4 seconds. It isn`t irritating coz comes from a distance..

It also takes place in the afternoon.
What can it be???
Cargo pants  3 | 1443
26 Jul 2023   #460
A motor from the well pumping water?or a scarecrow with bells or something like that?
OP pawian  221 | 26293
26 Jul 2023   #461
A motor from the well pumping water?

Sorry, no.
Hint - it is not a machinery sound. It isn`t produced by metal objects, it is hollow as I said. That is why bells are excluded too.
mafketis  38 | 11113
26 Jul 2023   #462
wo objects hitting each other. Bang! Bang! Bang!

Your neighbors are knockin' boots?

Don't complain... love is in the air!
OP pawian  221 | 26293
26 Jul 2023   #463
Nope. Nothing connected with it.
Hint - it is a noise produced by people working in the fields, without machinery. They make it by hittng one object against each other. The other object is hollow inside, hence the hollow sound.

Another hint - they make it cos they are careless. If they cared, they could carry it out without making such loud sounds.
OP pawian  221 | 26293
26 Jul 2023   #464
One riddle pending, another is looming on the horizon:
what is the veg which I sow in my patches as the last in the sowing season? I mean mid July.
Feniks
26 Jul 2023   #465
Carrots?
OP pawian  221 | 26293
26 Jul 2023   #466
Sorry, no, although it is possible. Carrots take a long time to grow, about 4 months, I sowed them in late April.

But you are close - I meant root veg.
Feniks
26 Jul 2023   #468
I meant root veg.

Not too many to choose from then! Radish, parsnips?
OP pawian  221 | 26293
26 Jul 2023   #469
Cargo, not beetroot. I sowed last beetroots in early July as a form of experiment coz it is a bit late.

Radish,

Yes! But not popular red and white radish which you imagine. Which one, then?

PS. Hint for the hollow banging noise in the field - it is made during harvest. What exactly? I first heard it about 3 weeks ago and it still continues in the morning and afternoon..
Feniks
26 Jul 2023   #470
Which one, then?

Black?

it is made during harvest.

Wheat, corn? Scythes knocking together? Seems a bit antiquated these days though.
Atch  24 | 4379
27 Jul 2023   #471
They make it by hittng one object against each other. The other object is hollow inside,

I suggest it's the farmer, knocking together the heads of incalcitrant farm labourers.
OP pawian  221 | 26293
27 Jul 2023   #472
Black?

Yes! Murzynka.

Scythes knocking together?

Nope, I said it is a hollow sound while metal makes clanking noise. Not wheat or other grains coz I said it has lasted for 3 weeks, while a combine harvester deals with crops in 1 hectar in 30 minutes.

Hint - it is veg harvest.

knocking together the heads of incalcitrant farm labourers.

:):) Sorry, no, none of my neighbours employs workers, the family does the job. Except adult children who refuse to work in the fields. They prefer cleaner jobs.
Feniks
29 Jul 2023   #473
hollow sound while metal makes clanking noise

I was thinking of long wooden handles knocking together. Wooden handled shovels, forks? Not hoes or rakes. Could be anything.
Cargo pants  3 | 1443
30 Jul 2023   #474
Yes! Murzynka.

You know it is so hard to get those carrots.I have been searching for them to make a Indian drink for years.All you can find is there seeds and I am not into gardening anyway.Also they are really not black more like purple.Another one is sugar cane in Poland,I love sugar cane juice and can only find it at Indian and Chinese stores back in States but never could in Poland.
Feniks
30 Jul 2023   #475
I have been searching for them to make a Indian drink for years.

Kanji. Apparently a good substitute for them is normal carrots and beetroots in a 3:2 ratio.

not black more like purple

We're talking about radishes though, not carrots.
Cargo pants  3 | 1443
30 Jul 2023   #476
Kanji.

Yup,thats it.

a good substitute for them is normal carrots and beetroots in a 3:2 ratio.

Nope,doesnt taste like it should be.

We're talking about radishes though, not carrots

Sorry,didnt pay attention.
OP pawian  221 | 26293
31 Jul 2023   #477
Could be anything.

Nope. I mentioned veg harvest. It means that one of the objects which produce the hollow sound is veg. What kind and what does it hit?

Another one is sugar cane in Poland,

I saw it only once a few years ago here. .I had tried it in the US but wasn`t fascinated. No tradition for it in Poland.
Paulina  16 | 4354
31 Jul 2023   #478
Hint - it is veg harvest.

Digging out potatos?
OP pawian  221 | 26293
31 Jul 2023   #479
Nope. Potato harvest wouldn`t last for weeks - it is a matter of a day or two.
BTW, what is the second object in that duo I mentioned?
Paulina  16 | 4354
31 Jul 2023   #480
@pawian, I have no idea then :)


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