Where to buy Dandelions?
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I will have my "pick your own" farm open by the middle of May, if you can wait.
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I will have my "pick your own" farm open by the middle of May, if you can wait.
Anyone who doesn't use pre-emergent will have this too.
I will have my "pick your own" farm open by the middle of May, if you can wait.
lol, my buddy always gave me crap when i came over asking, "Can i pull your weeds for a salad?" he just told me..have at it, go and graze!
(and yet i bought a pack of seeds and threw them all around my yard, and didn't get one to pop up!)
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You have to not want them in order to have the abundance of.
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Mountain Rose Herbs might have what you are looking for https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/search?page=1&q=Dandelion&utf8=✓
TechFanMD
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That is hilarious....you need to hire my daughter to gather up all of the puff balls and blow the seeds all over your lawn. She sure it good at it in my lawn.
i'm afraid my lawn days are over, here in S. AZ...nothing but gravel now.....
And all i could find on google for the OP about dandelion blossoms, was root powder...and leaves? is blossoms even a thing? i think your going to have to 'try' and grow your own, or start a landscaping side job!
Feel free to pick as many as needed from my yard at any time. You're welcome.
No need to plant. Just wait until a neighbor's yard dandelions seeds your yard. Just like brewing, "The hardest part is waiting".
bernardsmith
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Dandelion root is not the same as the blossom. You need the blossoms to make a dandelion wine.
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bernardsmith
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But .. has anyone tried making a variety of dandelion wine using the root? Dandelion root makes a great tea (and in Edinburgh (Scotland)) you used to be able to get dandelion coffee.
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I think they pick those roots at a certain time of year and then roast it heavily. I’m not sure why you would make wine out of it.....people aren’t making coffee wine after all, so why would they make wine out of something that tastes similar?
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and who doesn't make coffee wine or coffee mead? Heck! There is even a version of t'ej (mead made to a traditional Ethiopian recipe that is about 3000 years or more old) that uses coffee. IMO the best way to make a great coffee mead is to add cracked beans to the secondary.
probably because you did not coat each seed in bird crap
probably because you did not coat each seed in bird crap
i did have a neighbor with a pet parrot at the time.....maybe i should have feed the seeds to the bird then tossed the bird crap in the yard!
that sound easier than the way I was thinking.
Hire a bunch of local kids. I did a 1G batch of dandelion wine once, in 2015. 7 cups of blossoms for a 1G batch is a crapton load- took me about a month to collect them all. Unfortunately, no kids around where I live.
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