Archive for February 22nd, 2009

Edible Weeds

22 February 2009

I’m looking out the window at 6″ of new snow and looking forward to Spring, especially to trying some of the edible lawn weeds we have:

  • Dandelion (Flowers, leaves, roots)
  • Burdock (roots, foliage is toxic)
  • Plantain, buckhorn and broadleaf (leaves)
  • Purslane (leaves)

Those are the ones I know we have, and there are undoubtedly others. We picked and ate some dandelion leaves last Spring — can’t wait to try the roots.

What little I’ve found to read about these indicates what you’d expect: smaller and younger leaves and roots are better, and sometimes is the difference between edible and inedible. This is one resource I’ve found: http://www.eattheweeds.com.

I’m glad we don’t use chemicals on our lawn.

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