There are all kinds of vegetables in rural areas, why can’t they be eaten in cities?

It should be said that there are many in rural areas. But the vegetables that city dwellers cannot eat are all kinds of wild vegetables.

Now with the increase of various artificially cultivated wild vegetables. Vegetables such as shepherd's purse, dandelions, and bitter herbs are no longer rare items in the city's vegetable markets.

There are still many kinds of wild vegetables that are truly wild and can only be eaten in rural areas.

For example, here we have a wild vegetable called lentil sprouts in local dialect. Only grows on roadsides. It is resistant to treading. Tolerant to drought. There are patches of production roads in those fields. Green and lush. Especially when there is rain after a long drought. It's really tender and plump. It can be eaten from spring to autumn all year round. Elderly people in rural areas will pick it after the rain when it is most tender. After blanching in water, add soybean powder or soybean juice to make bean paste (also called small tofu) for consumption. That's a real treat. In the words of farmers, it is fresh and fragrant.

There are indeed many wild vegetables like this in rural areas. Such as: Chechecai, Ciercai, Ququya and Pengzicai, which are only found on saline-alkali lands in coastal areas.

As for the vegetables that are not available in the city, the vegetables that are abundant in the countryside are obviously wild vegetables. For example, there are a lot of dandelions in the ditches in rural fields, which we call Huanghuangmiao, and bitter herbs. Farther away, there are bracken on the mountains, day lilies, and many other vegetables. These are all wild vegetables in rural areas. In fact, there are many vegetables grown in rural areas that may not be available in the city.

We grow cotton here, and the ground needs to be watered frequently, once every ten days or so to keep the soil moist, especially in the rows of bittercress and cotton. Moreover, it grows faster than cotton and is very tender, even better than specially grown ones. It is really delicious to shovel it back and wash it and serve it as a cold dish.

For example, rapeseed leaves are delicious whether dried or fresh. And that safflower, fennel is delicious when eaten fresh or dried in the seedling stage, and you can’t buy it in the city.

So these vegetables can only be found in rural fields and mountains.

Citizens cannot eat them. However, a lot of vegetables in rural areas are wild vegetables. There are many varieties of wild vegetables, and they grow scatteredly. Small, difficult to collect, difficult to market as a commodity. The wild vegetables that can be purchased in the city are those with high yield and easy to harvest, such as plantain, dandelion, fern sprouts, etc. There are also high-priced wild vegetables, such as toona sinensis, Houttuynia cordata, mint, thorn sprouts, etc.

Nowadays, many wild vegetables have been cultivated artificially, and the yield has increased significantly. Urban people can buy them, such as buckwheat, dandelion, plantain, purslane, horsetail, gray amaranth, mint, and fish. Grass etc