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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Edible Weeds To Try at Home

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The world of weeds is more interesting than you might imagine. Today's show profiles 7 weeds that are edible AND nutritious. Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. I hope you are having a wonderful day or at least the day's starting off well and today I figured we would continue on in our

0:10.8

You Can Eat that series which would be following up on that personally an

0:14.8

episode that showed up yesterday on the podcast we'll talk about a couple

0:19.1

other things that you can eat that might just be growing already.

0:23.4

They might be growing as weeds, right?

0:25.3

So first of all, dandelions, these are the quintessential lawn and garden weed.

0:29.2

In fact, I actually have an article on how to get rid of them

0:31.9

on my website because some people you're

0:35.2

just never going to convince them to eat it right that's just not going to happen and

0:38.4

they'd like to keep the lawn clean I understand that and there are some ways that you can

0:42.0

get rid of dandelions mostly from the organic perspective.

0:46.0

However, for those of us who are a little more adventurous, well you can eat dandelion greens.

0:52.0

The leaves are harvested at any point in the growing

0:54.2

season. I would go with the smaller leaves. They're a little bit less bitter.

0:58.2

The bigger leaves can be eaten, but they're just a little bit more bitter.

1:01.2

That's what I would say. You can also

1:03.0

steam them, you can add them to a stir-fry, you can add them to a soup, and then you can also

1:07.2

eat the flowers. They're a little sweet, they're a little crunchy.

1:09.9

You can even fry them, bread them and fry them.

1:12.6

So pretty interesting.

1:14.2

Clover would be another one.

1:15.3

We've talked about Clover as a cover crop.

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