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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Bee's Favorite Edible Flowers To Use

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Bee gives us her top edible flowers, as well as a couple usage tips :) About Bee An accomplished cook, she creates singular recipes or complete menus featuring flowers as integral components, as well as handcrafted floral products to bring your own cooking to new heights. Learn More:  https://www.instagram.com/floracocina/ http://www.floracocina.com/ Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, will be out May 7, 2019. If you pre-order the book and forward your receipt to kevin@epicgardening.com, I'll send you a free pack of heirloom, organic seeds from one of my favorite seed suppliers! Pre-Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. Today we're back with B of Flora

0:07.0

Kossina and we're talking about edible flowers as you might have guessed and today's

0:11.0

episode is going to be about the top edible flowers to grow.

0:14.0

However, we do want to do a little joint PSA, me and B and me, about edible flowers.

0:21.7

You should not be eating anything you buy from a

0:25.1

forest. You should probably not be foraging them off the side of the road and

0:29.0

eating them and I'm going to let B get a little bit more into this disclaimer,

0:31.6

but the best way to consume them is to grow them yourself and then eat them because then you know exactly what's going on.

0:38.0

So that's just a little PSA, but today we're going to get into some of the top edible flowers to grow that you may not have known about either as an ornamental or just as a plant at all.

0:47.0

So let's go ahead and let B pop into it.

0:49.0

Okay, hey, so you've probably heard of Squash Blossom.

0:53.0

That's a pretty typical one.

0:54.1

There are lots of different dishes and cultures

0:56.0

that use those.

0:57.8

Very easy one to grow as well.

0:59.5

So another one that's really good is the well you can go pot marigolds so

1:06.0

colognes lots of medicinal properties easy to grow make beautiful

1:10.2

beautiful borders habiscus if you guys are anywhere in the south, you've got

1:15.0

Habiscus growing everywhere.

1:16.0

If you're a little bit more East Coast and cooler climates,

1:19.0

you've got Rose of Sharon, which is also the same family.

1:22.0

Lavender, down here, lavender grows, like crazy,

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