Dazzling dandelions!! - Page 2

flashy · 10-05-2012, 16:02

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Originally Posted by Michael1954

Hundreds in your garden? So are you letting them grow? Time to get weeding, Flashy.

waiting for the rain to stop and the garden to dry so i can mow it Michael

Michael1954 · 10-05-2012, 16:12

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Originally Posted by susie123

And quaffable!

No, wine - see recipe in post above.

Not forgetting good old Dandelion & Burdock . . . delicious.

rivetlad · 10-05-2012, 16:20

The beautiful DANDELION flowers brighten up this awful Spring!
From earliest times the DANDELION plant which is a herb have been used as medicines; used in delightfully tasty salads; for beer making, and for the manufacture of delicious DANDELION & BURDOCK pop!! There's not too many " real " garden plants which are beautiful as well as being nutritional!

rivetlad · 10-05-2012, 16:26

[B][COLOR="Blue"] Long abandoned stone quarry sites are happy hunting grounds for us DANDELION lovers. As I aim to pen an article on the manufacture of gritstone horse troughs-once commonplace alongside the old turnpikes- I would be DANDELION-Whoops!--I mean delighted to receive any details of the location of these old stone working sites anywhere in the Pennine region.

susie123 · 10-05-2012, 16:38

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Originally Posted by maxthecollie

Bring on the Rabbits and goats

Mmm... a dish of dandelion greens would go nicely with a roast rabbit with sage and bacon (recipe by Delia!).

Actually goats aren't all that keen on soft green stuff - they prefer something more crunchy and will happily much on a tree's foliage. We once had five goats in a paddock surrounded by elder trees. Their favourite food was ivy but within a few years they had killed all the elders by eating the foliage and the bark. We were quite pleased as we wanted to get rid of the trees. The grass in the paddock was still two feet high though!

maxthecollie · 10-05-2012, 17:06

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Originally Posted by susie123

Mmm... a dish of dandelion greens would go nicely with a roast rabbit with sage and bacon (recipe by Delia!).

Actually goats aren't all that keen on soft green stuff - they prefer something more crunchy and will happily much on a tree's foliage. We once had five goats in a paddock surrounded by elder trees. Their favourite food was ivy but within a few years they had killed all the elders by eating the foliage and the bark. We were quite pleased as we wanted to get rid of the trees. The grass in the paddock was still two feet high though!

I always thought that goats would eat anything

susie123 · 10-05-2012, 17:13

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Originally Posted by maxthecollie

I always thought that goats would eat anything

So do most people... but it ain't so. They will nibble something out of curiosity but don't think I've ever known one actually eat something crazy. Or maybe our goats were just too well behaved or well fed!

Boeing Guy · 10-05-2012, 17:25

Is it me, or are you advertising your business on here. I thought that was aginst the rules.

jaysay · 10-05-2012, 17:45

Less · 10-05-2012, 18:49

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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy

Is it me, or are you advertising your business on here. I thought that was aginst the rules.

I'm glad someone else noticed.

davemac · 10-05-2012, 22:08

Anyone who wants to cultivate dandelions (taraxacum officinale) should have understanding neighbours. Beautiful flower it may be, invasive it is certainly, look at the seed head and imagine that lot blowing into your neighbours garden, and it has a tap root that means a taraxacum is for life not just for Christmas.

Plus the wild variety have bitter leaves, as opposed to the cultivated variety. So all that said, pass the Glyphosate.

rivetlad · 11-05-2012, 07:13

Thank the Almighty but as I don't reside in either a semi, or terraced house with wittering, nosey neighbours. I can and indeed do, leave my eight acres of fellsides, meadows and wooded areas " natural ". On this land over the last thirty years I have planted a great diversity of native Pennine deciduous trees, shrubs and plants; the reason for the DANDELIONS, teazles, goat willows, junipers, eriopherum " cotton grass " and much more. I also enjoy the wild birds and animals that share my living in this most wondrous place.

rivetlad · 11-05-2012, 07:17

Long abandoned stone quarry sites are happy hunting grounds for us DANDELION lovers. As I aim to pen an article on the manufacture of gritstone horse troughs-once commonplace alongside the old turnpikes- I would be DANDELION-Whoops!--I mean delighted to receive any details of the location of these old stone working sites anywhere in the Pennine region.
Alan Dandelion.

I am certain that some of the natives of Hyndburn will be able to assist me with this request?

Michael1954 · 11-05-2012, 07:40

You will notice that the link in your original post was deleted by the mods, but I see you have included it again in post 27. I don't think advertising is allowed on this site.

davemac · 11-05-2012, 09:51

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Originally Posted by rivetlad

Thank the Almighty but as I don't reside in either a semi, or terraced house with wittering, nosey neighbours. I can and indeed do, leave my eight acres of fellsides, meadows and wooded areas " natural ". On this land over the last thirty years I have planted a great diversity of native Pennine deciduous trees, shrubs and plants; the reason for the DANDELIONS, teazles, goat willows, junipers, eriopherum " cotton grass " and much more. I also enjoy the wild birds and animals that share my living in this most wondrous place.

Its not about wittering or nosey neighbours, its about being neighbourly, you sound disparaging to people who live in semi's or terraced.

I think its time to leave you to wander around your eight acres, and ponder why you really came on here in the first place