Tuesday, June 04, 2019

History of Dandelions

let the History guy explain:





instructables has a tutorial on eating dandelions

my grandmother used to send the kids out to collect the flowers to make dandelion wine.

how to instructions on Allrecipes.

or watch here:



the plant is often deliberately destroyed by those who want "beautiful" lawns.

One of the saddest stories about this is one of my nursing home patients:  he was bedridden, and had loved to see the cheerful flowers outside his window and lamented after they "sprayed" the lawn to destroy them.

sigh.

And of course we kids loved them, both the flowers and the seeds:

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