by Julia | Aug 28, 2016 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Healing Plants, Natural Health, Recipes, Sustainable Living
A sure sign of spring is the new nettle shoots that are growing on the perennial nettle Urtica dioica (below left) . Urtica urens (left) is the other common variety which is annual stinging nettle or dwarf nettle which I have been eating all winter. It doesn’t...
by Julia | Jun 24, 2016 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Healing Plants, Natural Health, Recipes
I hear some groans with the mention of this plant because it is so hard to get rid of in the garden. Up until now I’ve not valued Oxalis at all as an edible weed. I’ve viewed it as containing too much oxalic acid for eating (the same substance in silver beet and...
by Julia | Jan 20, 2016 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Healing Plants, Natural Health, Raw Food, Recipes
The mallow family contains over twenty edible species of herbaceous plants that can be annual, biennial or perennial. A number are considered weeds while others like hollyhocks and hibiscus are treasured garden plants and marsh mallow is a well known healing plant. ...
by Julia | Oct 18, 2015 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Healing Plants, Natural Health, Recipes, Sustainable Living
Nipplewort – Lapsana communis You have to agree this plant has a weird name. If it could it would probably change it. There are two reasons for the name. One is that the seed capsules resemble a nipple in shape and secondly being an astringent plant it probably...
by Julia | Sep 24, 2015 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Growing Food, Healing Plants, Natural Health, Raw Food, Recipes
Borage – Borago officinalis Loved by bees this plant is both a weed and one we want. If you don’t have it, direct sowing of the seeds in spring and summer is best in its final position, as it doesn’t like having its long tap root disturbed. Or sow...
by Julia | Aug 29, 2015 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Healing Plants, Recipes, Sustainable Living
Bittercress Cardamine hirsuta I love this little compact, rosette shaped annual with lobed leaves, small white flowers and upright seed pods that explode, flinging the seeds far and wide when ripe and you touch them, hence one of its names ‘shot weed or ‘flick weed’....
