Plant These Edible Flowers in Your Garden Now
The first edible flower I ever ate was a nasturtium. We had giant nasturtium plants growing in our herb garden, nearly taking over, in fact, and decided we would start consuming the orange and yellow …
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82 Common Edible Flowers
Yesterday I posted an article on how to hide your gardens from prying eyes. Part of the premise of the article was that today, many people cannot recognize one plant from another. Most people have …
Chrysanthemums and Other Edible Flowers
My wife likes to grow pretty flowers in the front yard and I have a tendency to think of that as a waste of time. So we are working out a compromise and she is …
Lambs Quarter a Great Edible Plant
Lambs Quarters (pigweed, goosefoot, wild spinach) is seen by most people as a common weed. They don’t realize that it is a tasty and nutritious green vegetable that can be enjoyed, free for the picking. …
Cow Parsnip a Useful Edible Plant
Heracleum maximum commonly known as cow parsnip (also known as Indian celery, Indian rhubarb or pushki) is a plant that is Native to North America. Cow parsnip is distributed throughout most of the continental United States except the Gulf coast. It occurs from sea …
The Groundnut or Indian Potato a Good Edible Plant
Groundnut, Apios americana, sometimes called the potato bean, Indian potato, potato pea, pig potato, bog-potato, wild bean, wild sweet potato, America-hodoimo, hopniss is a perennial vine that bears edible beans and large edible tubers. Its vine can grow to 3-20 long, with leaves 4 to …
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Wild Jerusalem Artichokes are a Good Edible Plant
Potatoes aren’t the only good tuber out there, consider the Jerusalem artichoke also called the sunchoke, sunroot or earth apple. This is actually a species of sunflower. It grows wild in much of the United …
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Purslane, A Common Edible Plant
Purslane, also known as duckweed, fatweed, pursley, pussley, verdolagas and wild portulaca while considered a weed in the United States, can be a good source of vitamins and minerals. Purslane has fleshy succulent leaves and stems …
Common Mallow, One of My Favorite Edible Plants
Every year about this time I go crazy eating wild foods, the plants are everywhere. One of my favorites is common mallow. It grows all over and I love the taste of it raw. As …
Clover an Edible Plant
[/caption] Remember the four leaf clover you looked for as a child. Well they are edible. They are a member of the pea family. While clover is largely considered as either a wild plant messing …