My First Harvest

Yes you could survive eating dandelions. I would not want to.

Very nice Paigea. What is the outside of those rolls?

Wonderful! Nice to find another person who makes use of the abundance of dandelions.

Those rolls look delicious and I am quite envious of all the uses you have found for the dandelion. lol

Ha, I never knew a whole dandelion is edible . . the roots, leaves, flowers! We don't eat dandelions. We eat Philippine squash, its flowers, and young leaves. My favorite vegetables here in Canada are spinach leaves, brocs, bokchoy . . fruits: bananas, mandarins, avocados, mangos, grapes, strawberries, and pineapples. I die if I don't eat boiled rice!

Yes it is a versatile and healthy plant! And so available for all to eat!

Personally even though I have heard it is good for Tea, etc this is not something I can find myself wanting to eat or drink.

My grandmother would dig up the tender shoots before they blossomed and boil them with a piece of salt pork. I enjoyed them with a little butter or sometimes vinegar. Have you ever tried milkweed greens? I like them more than I do dandelion.

I've never ate dandelions.

I am constantly plucking them out of my yard and even though I know they are good for you I never had the courage to actually eat them. One of these days.

those look amazing!

I know dandelions are edible, but never tried them. We could have had a farm here for harvesting. Lol! However, we had new lawns put in and have a contract with a natural chemical service. I only found a few dandelions in the woods this year.

I have plenty of dandelions in my gardens. I will go checking out the pros and cons of eating this plant and its flower.

It's good that you have dandelion.

I never even knew you could eat parts of a dandelion, but that's cool! It sounds like your harvest is doing well. :)

I have never drank or ate anything with dandelions in it. I guess it is time I gave it a try.

I thought only Italians ate dandelions! Come on down we have a yard full - you can have them all. I don't eat weeds.

I have always been interested in making dandelion tea. Could you share how you make it?

That last line needed more of a than a small chuckle for you could hear mine, I was going to say miles around, but that wouldn't be quite right. Actually, if it's only the dandelion leaves in those wraps/rolls then it looks like you were able to use quite a few of them. I have to work at eliminating dandelions from my yard along with violets and anything that spreads and gets out of hand. For one thing if I don't then my neighbor is working on keeping the end of my yard that touches his free of them so they don't encroach into his yard too. In fact, I've left the miniature hyacinths go these past few years and they've taken over the area between my window and our ramp. I began digging them out this spring with my hoe. If they'd stay in that garden I'd be okay with it, but they are now in my lawn where they don't belong. I've purchased a second bag of butterfly and hummingbird attraction seeds for flowers that I hope to plant there and elsewhere where the weeds tend to keep coming back. I bought the first bag several years ago and have yet to get them into the ground. I found out there's only a one year warranty on seeds, but I'm going to put in seeds from both bags in the hopes that some survived being in my house these years. I know that if I'd put them into the freezer when they didn't get planted the first year they'd be okay, but who remembers all of that?

I use the leaves in salads and sometimes sauté them wit wild onions. Delicious. I've never used them to make tea.