Puzzles

[Paddy Tobin]

I'm lost.

Paddy

[Graham Catlow]

Me too
Graham

[Armin]

it is a vegetable (edible), it is small...

Medicago perhaps?

[Ragged Robin]

Something tail? - I want to say horsetail but it doesn't look anything like the horsetail plants I know although I see they were used since ancient time for medicinal purposes including hair loss!

[mark smyth]

Armin you could be correct. I photographed something very similar back in April

[Brian Ellis]

Too curly for phacelia I suppose?

[Armin]

Mark,
maybe but I've no idea which 'sea beasty' has the same name

[Ragged Robin]

The Kraken   Mythical squid-ike sea monster  ..... can't be bracken fronds (fern family) 

[Ragged Robin]

Re-Fiddlehead: the opposite end and you're halfway there....

head of dill 

For an old recipe:
Cucumber and dill seeds/flowers?  

[Martin Baxendale]

No, none of the Cucumbers, so you're safe and can carry on guessing. Here's the entire picture:

I think I see flower bracts, which might make those curly things seed pods?

[Stephenb]

Armin's on the right track, Ragged Robin is half way there, Martin B is correct and if only Mark could remember what he took a photo of back in April we'd maybe have an answer. A clever lot aren't you!

[Armin]

Stephen,
medicago has more then 85 sorts...

Edible are M. sativa ssp. but seeds are different.
M. arborea is not small and I'm doubtful it grows in your climate...
Is it M. saxatilis?

[Stephenb]

Armin: I said you were on the right track, not that it was a Medicago  However, there are Medicagos that could be used in food in the same way and for the same reason as my plant 

[Ragged Robin]

For pickling or relishes I wonder? 

[mark smyth]

This is what I photographed growing on waste land in Majorca