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Many weeds are edible weeds although this is not widely known.\u00a0 Faced with an epidemic of two weeds in particular I thought I had better put this edible weeds theory in practice and try and eat my way to controlling them.\u00a0 This I would add was after researching about them on the internet.\u00a0 Please don’t just launch in and eat anything you find, there is a lot of stuff that is\u00a0poisonous, even if it is less in common plants than I thought.\u00a0 Another thing to watch is that you don’t forage something rare.\u00a0 There have been mushroom foraging bans in several parts of England due to their rarity.\u00a0 However the\u00a0edible weeds I am talking about are not rare and never will be.<\/p>\n

The first is the dandelion.\u00a0 See pic below.\u00a0 Said to be high in antioxidants and vitamins A, C and K (sky high) as well as some other useful compounds.\u00a0 The mature leaves are said to be a bit bitter.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_2304\"<\/a> The second of the edible weeds is ground elder.\u00a0 See pic below.\u00a0 Again lots of minerals and vitamins.<\/p>\n

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Introduced to the UK by the Romans and related to the carrot the stuff is a grade A gardening nightmare.\u00a0 The Romans didn’t introduce it for its beauty (see pic) they considered it a delicacy.\u00a0 Again eat the young leaves.\u00a0 Its said to taste a bit like spinach.\u00a0 After checking it was not\u00a0poisonous (honest) I cooked it as I would spinach for the wife.\u00a0 It did not go down well.\u00a0 This time with both plants I cut the leaves up loosing the tougher veins and fry them in a spicy chicken dish and in risotto.\u00a0 To be honest I could not taste them, but hopefully the benefits of the vitamins A and K will still be there.\u00a0 C is destroyed by cooking.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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