The Broadleaved Dock - Facts, Uses, Identification & Folklore 🍃 Wild Edible (Rumex obtusifolius)

The broadleaved Dock 🍃! Also known as bitter dock or red veined dock. It's scientific name is "Rumex obtusifolius" There's actually more than 50 species of dock!
But you'll most commonly find just two species growing everywhere & that's the broadleaved dock & the curly dock also known as yellow dock.
If you try researching about broadleaved dock you'll notice it lives in the shadow of curly dock all the books of edible weeds narky give it a mention which is a shame because broadleaved dock is completely edible the leaves stems fresh can be sweet & used in soups & salads while the root has powerful laxative effects if you need that in your life 😁
The dock is rich in potassium, Magnesium & especially iron & it has an incredible ability to survive, The dock can actually surive for 8 weeks completely submerged underwater!
A large mature broad-leaved dock can produce up to 60,000 ripe seeds per year.
These seeds are capable of surviving in undisturbed soil for over 50 years 😯
Traditionally we all love dock for its soothing stinging nettle stings ability if you take dock & combine it with coconut oil you can create a soothing salve to keep in your pocket to carry the power's of the dock with you.
In Folklore they once belived if you carved & dressed the root of the dock into the shape of the person you admire & keep it in your pocket for a month then boil it & bath in its juices the person would fall in love with you 😁💞
All in all the broadleaved dock is an overlooked edible weed that when used correctly can be a nice source of food & salve plus of course it supports the wildlife too.
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[@JulesInfinite888]

Wish I could see ur book on my iPad . Ty for the awesome videos

[@dannydavis1964]

I'll bought your book Thanks Danny

[@rickyensor4789]

I live in the mountains of Norh Carolina. My mom used to pick the dock leaves in the spring and mix them with other greens and cook them with potatoes and onions. They were quite good.

[@AlissaSss23]

In Romania my grandma would rest the bread on dock leaves while baking so it wouldn't stick to the earthen oven, it was amazing and it created great patterns

[@timway6839]

That's so cool

[@hellojello8376]

Oh that’s awesome .

[@mycozygardencottage]

This grows all over my property in Ohio. Thank you for helping me to appreciate it more than I already did!

[@dianawashington7509]

I’m in SE Ohio. Ours is covered with this and yellow also.

[@cheryli2317]

It helped me get my health back time after time with COPD and heart issues

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

How did you use it? 🙂

[@cristineconnell7803]

Yes do tell! How did you use it!

[@amyefting3225]

OMG I've been trying to figure out what was invading my yard for so long and yes, NOTHING kept it down lol. So happy to find it's useful! And thank you for showing HUGE ones. I was getting concerned because ONLY the smaller plants are discussed. Also excited to try it in soup!

[@Getting_Good2007]

We have these all over the uk use them for when we got stung

[@pjsfineart2881]

I just made flour with the seeds and then zucchini bread with the flour. Absolutely delicious.

[@angelaroney6390]

One day my knee was hurting and I couldn't stop.i saw a big ol leaf that said use me! I took it and wrapped it around my knee and kept going. I totally forgot about it until I got ready for my shower and there was the leaf wilted and spent. Energy or psychosomatic it was great and I was very grateful❤

[@cristineconnell7803]

If I stick that on my tail bone area while trying to work out there, I am really going to be laughed at 😂😂❤ If it takes the severe pain away, laugh on ❤😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dannydavis1964]

Good video they make excellent toilet paper too Thanks Danny

[@Lorin1228]

Well I've learned something! I always just squished a leaf until it was mushy and rubbed that on a sting, it never occurred to me to use the stem - I was always taught 'dock LEAF' so that's what I'd use!

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

I'd done the same for years!

[@stephenjohnstone3542]

I have found that the dock doesn't make one whit of difference to a nettle sting ,the best thing is to take a nettle leave crush it between your fingers rub it on wait one minute and voila sting gone....all my children know this and use it on their children....surprisingly not many people know this.

[@Lorin1228]

That kind of makes sense too as nettles contain natural antihistamines.

[@staceyvirgo1950]

I love your passion for foraging. Thank you for cheering me up.

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Glad you enjoyed the video 😁

[@manowode6286]

Love your videos. Very rich qnd lacking nothing. A pleasurable watch. Thank you.

[@eddiedoyle3129]

Another wonderful video. Really enjoyed it.

[@CrazyK64]

I absolutely love your demeanor. I was about to weed eat the front of my house that I have only been in 3 yrs here in the Ozark mountains in the state of Arkansas. When I was hesitant to mull down such a vibrant and beautiful plant. The first year I thought it was a type of collard green but was uncertain so I wacked it down. The next year I figured it to be a sewer or ditch weed. This year it's so big and beautiful there had to be something to it more than I was giving it credit for. First initial Google search said horseradish. So I looked again and took another picture and I come up three times the same and that's how I found your channel. My ancestral roots are mainly from lancastrian descent and Welsh I'm as Gaelic as they come my grandfather six generations back was Miles Standish which hailed from the Isle of Man. So your jolly and folly made me Giddy and it's saved this wonderful plant. I cannot wait to see it bloom. I will be looking for more videos as I have some crazy plantain of different sizes and types. Question please.. is the flower of the plantain the plantagenet? I also have what we call hogweed but it's a mint and it is in the family of the patchouli. You talk about a stunning plant in the fall the colors and the fragrance are unbelievable and the remedies this plant has amazing potentials and even being used in scientific studies for influenza and Cancers I just felt compelled to say thank you for the smile you have a very lucky family to have someone like you to keep cheering them on I'm looking forward to learning through your cheerful way. So are yorkster lancastrian or Wales? I wouldn't say York your too happy.. just a curious oh gal from America and strong Gaelic nature.

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

🤣 To happy for York, we're actually from the South East in a small seaside town 🙂

[@CrazyK64]

@@homeiswhereourheartis Like Where they shoot that show Dr.Brown? I love that seaside it's such a quaint cobbled village .Thank you for your reply..I am really enjoying you and your wife's insights and humor .we all can use as much of that as we can get our hands on.

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[@Yr-Anghenfil]

I'd be so interested if you did a dock flour bread recipie!

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

It's on the to do list when the seeds come!

[@ilanajacobs5539]

LOVE YOUR CHANNEL SO MUCH!!!!!

[@Snowy-vn1ez]

thank you .and i like the way how you appreciate it .I really like your English pronounsation.

[@irelandoffthebench]

You guys are genuinely lovely. Your videos are my favorite. 💞

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

😁✌️

[@Nicola-Lore]

I've always wondered what this plant was. It has always called to me. After learning to identify it, Dock popped up all over our newly cleared meadow of once thick blackberry brambles. The seeds must have been patiently waiting for some sunlight.

[@conradhomestead4518]

Great job 😊

[@forageforknowledge]

Great plant for all to know! Nice video!

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Cheers!

[@kiltedbeast1320]

What a beautiful message at the end. Thanks for the info, friend!

[@jessicawhite1598]

Loving the passion! Hope to harvest and use all these beautiful plants! I almost feel unsure of how to preserve it all

[@charlotteanderson7761]

Wow I know exactly where some of this is right now! I knew it was dock it but not that’s it’s edible! Yay I’m so excited to try it!

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Enjoy!

[@CarolNYC]

Thanks so much fro this video. I have these growing in my yard this spring. Interesting to see how useful it is.

[@Trendlespin]

I love your interpretation of the folklore ( :

[@soybasedjeremy3653]

Thank you, this plant is invasive in the Midwestern United States, I ignored it thinking it was a poisonous lookalike of rhubarb.

[@jeanettesuzannebrooks1963]

Very eloquently done, thanks!

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Many thanks!

[@c0pycvt]

i love this so much, thank you so much ❤️ I had to write an essay on it and this was so helpful ❤️❤️

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

😁

[@mirian593]

Exciting vídeo! Thank you

[@danielrichardson676]

Excellent video thank you

[@trendingwwwandw]

thanks for details on wild edibles

[@muhammadashfaqramay1261]

Excellent....Thanks ....

[@juliosdiy3206]

Awesome i know what curly dock looks like i have dug them but im skeptical if the big ones with brouder leaves r the ones u have i took a picture of it and i think the r docks. I will wait to c if they got the stems n flowers in about a month.

[@trudybarton151]

Only the broad leaf dock has the reddish purply main leaf vein....the curly dock , yellow dock doesn't have this.

[@theresadaley154]

Thank you for this wonderfully engaging, informative and entertaining video! We have lots of what we can onion grass growing. You know it has little baubles for roots? I can't find any info on it's 'good' uses. Do you know of any?

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Glad you enjoyed our video 🙂 Sorry iv not heard much about the plant you mentioned ✌️😁

[@theresadaley154]

@@homeiswhereourheartis thank you for getting back to me. It is called onion couch or false oat-grass.

[@theresadaley154]

@@homeiswhereourheartis some more info copied and pasted from wikipedia Arrhenatherum elatius is a principal species in two UK National Vegetation Classification habitat communities: the very widespread MG1 (Arrhenatherum elatius grassland) and the much rarer MG2 (Arrhenatherum elatius - Filipendula ulmaria tall-herb grassland). This means that it can be found with species such as Dactylis glomerata (also known as cock's-foot and orchard grass), and Filipendula ulmaria (also known as meadow-sweet). It is found on road verges, along hedges and riverbanks. It can colonise and stabilise limestone scree, bare calcareous cliffs, maritime shingle and coastal dunes.

[@edithdotson5617]

Broad leaf dock. I have lots of it from one plant I picked near a friend's home where it grew wild. She did not know what it was, neither did I. It just seemed like it was a good, useful plant. Earlier this year I started looking up foraging videos. I found it on there being identifies as broadleaf dock. I've dries some to use later; I'm not sure exactly how. Any suggestions? We have yellowdock too; bitter but delicious! Thanks for the info.

[@Hayley-sl9lm]

While I really appreciate your enthusiasm & positivity, I don't know how you can eat this man, especially raw in a salad! I tasted it one time and it was so gross 🤢... I'm intrigued about the seeds, how would you use those? Like quinoa? Are they any less bitter? If not I'll pass lol. Maybe I'll do the salve, I have a bajillion of these in my yard coming up in my pathways because they can survive compacted soil really well.

[@lizohare1740]

I found some with red dots or marks on them are they still ok to use. Thanks for great video.

[@jennabrown4959]

They always have red dots. That is an identifier.

[@VickiMaheu]

I just want to know how to keep it from springing up in vegetable garden.

[@pastryshack551]

Your leaf looks closer to comlhrey so I will have to see if I can find the one you show

[@nullgravity2583]

i would chew on the dock leaf and then spit the saliva poultice onto the stung location

[@jennabrown4959]

Me too. It has always worked this way. All of the kids that play at the park use this method and it definitely works.

[@buxadventure8531]

Use plantain NOT dock for nettle stings

[@foxccc7517]

Love plantain for so many reasons, including pets

[@roslynaubrey7766]

Just learned about it and looking for it!

[@stardustuniverse7653]

🤣🤣👍

[@AnneWilkynson]

I was looking for someone to tell me how to eradicate it, I hate it, I have a small yard that I like to sit in with my birds and my flowers and a little path.. dock weed is the only enemy! ARGHHHH

[@thecoolaxolotlnova8523]

Scientific name sounds like a Harry Potter spell

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Ivy's scientific name sounds like a pokemon to me "hedera helix" 😁

[@thecoolaxolotlnova8523]

@@homeiswhereourheartis omg it does

[@christieforcelsius3648]

I ate Dock leaf today!!! 🙏

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Awesome 😁

[@kirstywolters1318]

So grateful that I came across your account 🙏🙏🙏 thanks for all these lovely and helpful videos. Plants are truly magical 💚

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Thank you for joining us 😊

[@robm6335]

Another amazing video, music, presentation and content is informative, chilled and peaceful ... thanks bro 😎

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Glad you enjoyed it Rob! 😁

[@philoffhistree6700]

well you know its really a placebo for nettle stings, but saying that placebo actually work a little too, but much better to find a ribwort plantain as that actually does have stuff that treats nettle stings

[@clairrollings3988]

Yes plantain is amazing and can draw out venom and infections, I've used it to relieve a tooth abscess and used it as a poultice on my cats infected scratch.

[@bigfatdrum]

Feral Brother!!!haha! you have a dock video!! Excellent! Stinging Nettle Kryptonite!!!! LMAO! i’m so smiling again, :) I bet you did get your wife with a little Dock Leaf Doll. L O L keep rockin it Pops!

[@jeanneamato8278]

Definitely make a balm. I’ll have to use yellow dock here because we don’t have broad leaf near.

[@sycamorevendor4959]

This is the most occurring weed on my farm!

[@MichaelTester-p8f]

A warm heartfelt informative careful evocative dual presentation about the overlooked power and essential significance of all plants

[@StEboue]

Hello, is broadleaf dock invasive or will it spread and outperform other plants? I am trying to leat my garden return to nature but manage it slightly. I am just worried I will end up with a field of docks and nothing else. Thank you

[@fredriebel6176]

Is broadleaf dock and Curley dock the same or similar

[@geelee1977]

Tom Bombadil teaches about dock.

[@HomeEdMum]

What a fab video! My six year old loved this video - especially the love story at the end - perfect for bed time, thank you 🙏

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Thanks for watching! Really cool to hear you and your little one enjoyed the video 😁

[@HomeEdMum]

@@homeiswhereourheartis you're welcome. Broad leaf dock now cut out and securely in my pocket 😉🤣

[@AlissaSss23]

I just found your video just now, it's amazing, I think your Stella is awesome for making that balm! Keep up the great work!!!

[@dtrocilo]

Thank you for your video! I was looking for this plant in Swedish and the blogs I've found treated it like it had to be exterminated!! For me, a being so strong can only be good for us, so I loved seeing your enthusiasm for this plant!

[@EsaiasP]

Doesn't it have high levels of oxalates, crystals that cut your veins like sharp knives?

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Sounds freaky but it's the same as things like spinach, sorrel and parsley all contain higher levels of oxalic acids than dock, You'd have to eat pounds & pounds everyday for a whole week of it to actually hurt your body.

[@DavidMartin-ym2te]

Young leaves, soaked in water and cooked should be OK I think.

[@mirandaandrea8215]

Thank you! 🍁🦋

[@bekindalways4387]

Thank you

[@geeyah7278]

How is the taste?

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Nice 🙂

[@wendysweet808]

Thank you 🙌

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Your welcome 🙂