Top Fifteen Useful Edible Weeds
Top Fifteen Useful Edible Weeds When Ken and Addy Fern were actively working on their experimental plot in Cornwall, visitors would have noticed the large amount of weeds that grew there. This was partly because they simply didn't have enough time to keep on top of all the weeds, but also because many are quite useful, and some were even actively encouraged. Their approach was that a weed is merely a plant growing somewhere they didn't want it to grow and, instead of automatically hoeing out any plant that didn't put there, try and leave in all those that are not likely to interfere with the other plants they were growing. There are several ways in which weeds can be helpful to leave in the garden. Many of them, for example, are edible (indeed some are very tasty), whilst others have medicinal properties or other uses. Weeds also help to provide a more balanced environment by providing food and habitats for insects and other creatures - this can have a very i...