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Re: danelion wine

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At 02:58 PM 2/8/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
>   It is a crop that nobody grows deliberately.

Oh, not true, not true!  I think Cook's Gardens (and I'm sure other places)
have that French Dandelion, a more upscale version, but even our own common
variety garden weed is an excellent salad ingredient. Fresh, young and
tender greens either alone, added to other salad greens, or in a *wilted*
salad. Hardboiled egg on top. Yummm. 

The flowers are edible too. Batter 'n fry them. Or toss them into one of
those salads above.

The roots are a superb herb you can harvest and dry and use as an herb, or
roast and use as a coffee substitute or extender. 

All the parts are good for the liver (cleanses it -- and we all need
that!), an excellent overall spring tonic. Get it in your greens, or in the
dried herb (root). (I think it's better to harvest the root in the fall,
though. Let me know if anyone wants me to check that in my herb books.) The
roots go way down and bring up lots of nutrients, tho probably not nearly
as far as alfalfa roots.

I am thinking of devoting a small area where I've got a natural stand
started to them and actually encouraging them to grow there. Yes, I really am!

So, care to share that dandelion wine recipe?

Patricia, Zone 7b
Who plans on growing a lot of other herbs this year too, and even more next
year and .even more .  . . you get the idea. :-)  Including Milk Thistle,
and quite a few other wonderful *weeds.*


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