onion greens and dandelion salad
eaten yesterday and again today,
a large -11.5" diameter - bowl full
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A very nutritious food,
100g of the dandelion raw leaves
contain about:
2.7g. protein,
9.2g. carbohydrate,
187mg Calcium,
66mg phosphorus,
3.1mg iron,
76mg sodium,
397mg potassium,
36mg magnesium,
14000iu vitamin A,
0.19mg vitamin B1,
0.26mg vitamin B2,
35mg vitamin C
from http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Taraxacum+officinale&CAN=WIKIPEDIA
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I always eat enough greens so I'm no longer hungry
the dandelion I cut out of the ground
so I also get some root
which I brush clean
and then cut the root in smaller pieces or not,
add the leaves, buds and
yellow flower
which blossom under the plastic dome
but not yet out in the open
added some onion green
a shot of apple juice
and some olive oil
and sat on the garden bench
eating nature's very own homegrown -pesticide free
product
also seeded today mustard greens
and French Dandelion, which I will also
inter-seed with tomatoes and beans
Now, these Dandelion greens are not bitter at all;
of course my whole system has changed
since I went on my raw juice diet
and dis-habituated my body from all kinds of "food"
and returned to my wild garden style
which really grew out of he worst hunger years
after the second world war
now Dandelion is one of the richest food
so I try to eat it as long as the garden produces it;
its the first herb of the season besides the green onion greens
by now I've over seeded most of my "beds" -
even watered the already dry parts with the dried out sphagnum moss
so the seeds don't get stuck in the crust - I hope
until new growth covers all the bed
under the plastic domes some more of the bird food corn has sprouted,
so I will nurse them along with my other crops
soon I will start the beans and tomatoes from seeds
outside under plastic cover;
I have these 4 liter milk jugs that I can put with them
under the plastic domes;
once the clouds are gone, which happens very often,
I sit outside, reading outside,
the covered beans and tomatoes
should do well to get them going under plastic
the geraniums I got were transplanted in 4" pots, watered
and already 'taken for several walks outside'
just like me sitting in the garden under the sun-
more and more new leaves are coming