merryb wrote:
> Doug Freyburger > wrote:
>
>> Dandelion greens are good on pizza, in salad and in lasagna that I've
>> tried. *They are grown as crops not picked as weeds. *I've purchased the
>> greens at a local farmers market back when we lived in LA metro.
>
> So would the ones from my yard be any good?

If you don't use weed sprays and you don't have pets they should be
okay. The ones at the farmers market were a lot bigger and less tough
than the ones in my yard. I haven't eaten the ones in my yard because I
do occassionally use weed spray and I have had dogs a fair portion of my
life so I've rarely tasted a dandelion at home. I grow herbs in pots
now. I bet a volunteer that appears in such a garden spot should be
fine.

Dandelion greens are softer than chard sort of like mild colliards
without being so tough. Intense spinach or so. Just another green when
mixed into a salad but I think a bit too intense as the primary green
in a salad the way I do with spinach.