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Dandelions !
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I pour table salt into the centre of them. Remove as many of the flowers and buds as possible. The plants then shrivel up and die. If you don't remove the flowers/buds, the plants use all their energy to produce seeds which makes them spread.
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Only if you are an insect. For bees butterflies and hoverflies it can mean food, for finches too for that matter, pretty essentialmandragora wrote: »I thought they were an essential decorative item....
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Has anyone else noticed that this seems to be a bumper year for dandelions? I'm going to try salt on the ones springing up all along our path0
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mandragora wrote: »I thought they were an essential decorative item....
Its the only bit of colour in my garden! And the only plant my DH hasn't been able to kill yet! :rotfl:sealed pot challange #572!Garden fund - £0!!:D£0/£10k0 -
cant you eat them once you pick them0
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cant you eat them once you pick them
The young leaves are edible and apparently tasty in a salad, if they haven't ben sprayed with weedkiller, by the dog or next door's cat !
They are a mild diurectic, the French name is pis-en-lit.
Dandelion wine can be concocted by home brewers, and of course there's good old Dandelion and Burdoch pop..................
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The leaves are nice in salad apparently.0
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They are supposed to be better blanched, stick a pot over a large one for a while till they go pale, then eat.
Tried them and they don't exactly set my taste buds on fire, if I had to I suppose.... You can buy seeds for cultivated ones, the victorians used to grow them alot as salad leaves.
Got my DD eating them in the garden as well, quite happy to eat a dandelion leaf, but not a fresh tomato :rolleyes:
You can eat the flowers too, tried them last week, they are better young rather than fully open. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0 -
Jack's_mummy wrote: »Has anyone else noticed that this seems to be a bumper year for dandelions? I'm going to try salt on the ones springing up all along our path
My friend has commented on this - the garden is my domain although the lawn is his - he has moaned so much about the volume of the things this year he's getting quite boring! hehe
Seriously though the only way we can keep on top of them is daily picking.0 -
look up verdone, kills weeds not grass0
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