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Bet you can’t wait to dig those dandelions out of your lawn, or spray them with 2,4-D to kill them slowly but efficiently.
Not everyone considers dandelions to be weeds. Some view them as veggies to be eaten in salads. Others turn their yellow flowers into wine.
And a potential medicinal use: dandelions may have a future as a cancer killer. To read Patterson Clark’s “Eat your weeds,” in his weekly “Urban Jungle” column in the Washington Post, CLICK HERE.
My 88 year old dad has told me that his family would eat dandelions like spinach when he was a boy growing up in the Great Depression. I used to think that was weird, but now that I'm older and somewhat wiser, I realize his family was pretty normal and perhaps smarter than many people are today.
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