Re: Problem Gardener/dandelions
The foliage of dandelions make a great dish. Do you know how to cook greens
like kale, mustard, collards? Cook dandelion greens the same way. The
small, tender ones!
Pottsey
zone5, OH
----- Original Message -----
From: Myrna Miller <mmiller@nemontel.net>
To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 3:57 PM
Subject: RE: Problem Gardener/dandelions
> Hi, Craig, welcome to the list!
>
> I really laughed when I read "dandelions" in your plant lists. We have had
> so much rain here in the past month that the dandelions and the lawn grass
> are just taking over all my flowerbeds. Beds that I weeded thoroughly in
> late March are infested with dandelions. (My husband says he likes them,
> for their cheery color, not that he'd be of any help, anyhow. Well, I
could
> probably like them too, if they didn't seed the entire world.) I live on
a
> ranch, and my brother-in-law's wife, who lives next door, has invited her
> parents and my in-laws down for Mother's Day dinner....oh, gawd....now I
am
> digging dandelions by the bushel!! No way you can get 'em all, either.
>
> Myrna, Zone 3, Montana
>
> ____________________________________________________
>
> Craig wrote (much snipping):
>
> I can tell you this much, I
> >have some shasta daisies, sweet William, dandelions, creeping phlox, and
> >daylillies. In my other flower garden I have bleeding hearts, miniature
> >roses, dandelions, climbing blaze rose, tea roses, hardy glads, tulips,
> >dandelions, the list is kind of like the Energizer Bunny....it goes on
and
> >on and on (can I get a witness?).
>
>
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