Re: Re : Self-seeding perennials
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- Subject: Re: Re : Self-seeding perennials
- From: B* C*
- Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 11:05:11 EDT
>From: "GUIRAUD Chantal" <chantal.guiraud@wanadoo.fr>
>Reply-To: perennials@mallorn.com
>To: perennials@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re : Self-seeding perennials
>Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 10:47:23 +0200
>
> Hi, everyone,
>of course, you're right,Marge, these weeds are Cardamine hirsuta, awful
>task
>to get rid of it, but I'have heard here, that you can eat them as a salad
>with vinaigrette. In France, too, by April, you can see people digging up
>dandelions by the road-side (I wonder if they are polluted or not) to make
>nice salads and they eat them with cooked eggs.
>Chantal GUIRAUD
>Ermenonville north of Paris, zone 7
>----------
Chantal, you used to see the same thing in Toronto, and I suspect any place
with a large Italian population. It doesn't seem to be a tradition carried
on. The children don't want to eat weeds or be seen picking them.
Right off hand I can't remember the details but a lot of plants that we
consider weeds were deliberately brought over from Europe as food or as
medicinal plants. Soapwort is a pretty common "weed" in my area
but I'm pretty sure that 150 years ago it would have been a lot more
appreciated than it is today. Same thing with self-heal (Prunella) which is
all through my lawn.
Bob Campbell
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