When hiking or going through a park you don’t see wild vegetables such as head of lettuce or zucchini? Or potatoes?
Also never hear of survival situations where they find potatoes or veggies that they lived on? (I know you have to eat a lot of vegetables to get some actual nutrients but it has got to be better then nothing)
Edit: thank you for the replies, I’m not an outdoors person, if you couldn’t tell lol. I was viewing the domesticated veggies but now it makes sense. And now I’m afraid of carrots.
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Most crop plants have lost natural defenses against pests and competition in exchange for boosting production and consistency. If you abandon a garden, it will quickly be picked clean by critters and then be overrun by weeds. Without fertilizer, pest control and irrigation most crop plants are not robust enough to survive in the wild.
On top of that, some vegetables can’t self-propogate. Their seeds might not breed true, or they require a specific condition to germinate that won’t happen at random in a non-native environment.
You can occasionally find old fruit trees from abandoned orchards or other random fruit and berry plants. There are wild tuber and root plants you can eat, but they are wild varieties that are more suited to wild conditions.
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