At this time of the year, your garden may have some pretty healthy looking dandelion plants if you haven’t had time to do weeding.

Maybe you can accomplish two things at once.

Have you ever tried eating dandelions?  The greens can be very bitter.  Some people add the uncooked leaves to salads.  Just don’t use too much unless you like that bitter taste.  Younger leaves are less bitter.

If you cook them properly, they can be delicious and healthy.  They are high in iron, calcium, protein, and vitamins A and C.

There are as many ways to cook them as your imagination can take you.  Eat them in salads, steamed, breaded & fried, in jam, wine, replacing lettuce on a sandwich.  The flowers are edible too.

Just go online and search for “how to cook dandelions.”

Warning:  Never eat dandelions that have been treated with herbicides, pesticides or other harmful chemicals!