Category: Using Your Harvest
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Which Dynamic Accumulator Plants are Actually Helpful for your Garden, According to Science?
Popular recommendations of dynamic accumulators include comfrey, amaranth, chickweed, dandelion, chicory, lamb’s quarters, nettles, and many trees; however, new research suggests that we have misidentified some dynamic accumulators. At the same time, new analysis of longstanding USDA data reveals as many as 340 plant species that could be contenders for the title.
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Can You Eat Rose Petals Raw?
While most parts of a rose can be prepared as food, the petals are a sweet snack when simply picked and eaten raw. Roses have been grown as food for millennia, and are still an everyday part of people’s diets in many Middle-Eastern countries as well as Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan.
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Edible Flowers: Are They Vegetables?
Botanically speaking, flowers are a feature that draw pollinators in to an access point where they can fertilize the plant’s ovary. The petals themselves are actually a kind of modified leaf. And flowers are indeed classed as a vegetable. Except for fruits and seeds, any part of a plant which is eaten by humans is…