Recipe for Candied Violets for Mother’s Day

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Violets run rampant across my home garden by Mother's Day and I eat them. I don't worry about them spreading, I actually cultivate them, move them to make a spring border right along my sidewalk and fill bare spots in my lawn.  Lively little purple flowers popping up from rosettes of leaves just beg to be picked by a child and given as...

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Eat Those Weeds: Dandelions And Violets

Monday, April 2, 2012

What is a weed but a plant growing where YOU do not want it to grow? Dandelion leaves are a spring tonic of vitamins and are not at all bitter until the flowers appear. The trick is to harvest the leaves just before they pop flower stalks.  Find them within your own garden beds and lawn, not sprayed by insecticide or dogs. You can walk...

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