Absolutely!! Hostas, the center sprouts can be cooked with olive oil and baked, and they taste like asparagus. All parts of Violets are edible, creeping charlie is in the mint family and is very nutritious in a tea, Day lillies are edible, the roots can be cooked like potatoes. Dandelions are not only edible, they are a superfood. The roots can be a coffee replacement, the greens used in a salad, and the blossoms can be used for tea, wine, or even jelly. . It was a lot of work to clean and dry Dandelion roots, but I found the tea to be delicious. Purslane is a succulent like weed, that is actually a superfood. You can put it in a salad, or cook it like spinach. There are videos on you tube, called Eat the Weed which are very informative. Investing in some books as ChuckWalla advised is excellent advice!
Absolutely!! Hostas, the center sprouts can be cooked with olive oil and baked, and they taste like asparagus. All parts of Violets are edible, creeping charlie is in the mint family and is very nutritious in a tea, Day lillies are edible, the roots can be cooked like potatoes. Dandelions are not only edible, they are a superfood. The roots can be a coffee replacement, the greens used in a salad, and the blossoms can be used for tea, wine, or even jelly. . It was a lot of work to clean and dry Dandelion roots, but I found the tea to be delicious. Purslane is a succulent like weed, that is actually a superfood. You can put it in a salad, or cook it like spinach. There are videos on you tube, called Eat the Weed which are very informative. Investing in some books as ChuckWalla advised is excellent advice!