Posts Tagged: Edible
Edible Flowers from Vegetable, Fruit, and Weed Plants
Last week I discussed ornamental edible flowers. This article features some of the edible flowers...
Planning for an Edible Landscape: Easy Pickings Out the Front or Back Door
The Covid pandemic accelerated a movement to backyard edible gardening that had been underway in...
Applying Pesticides around Edible Gardens
If your company does residential landscape pest control, your employees should be trained to know...
Weeds, Friend or Foe?
By Susanne von Rosenberg, UC Master Gardener of Napa County It's May and...
California poppy, friend or foe? (Twitchell, UC Botanical Garden)
Just . . . weeds (Pinterest)
Purslane, an edible (UC IPM)
Dandelion, leaves edible (UC IPM)
Lambsquarters, another edible (UC IPM)
Fennel (DiTomaso, UC Davis Dept of Plant Science)
Nettle, edible, be careful picking. Those hairs sting and burn. (UC IPM)
Chickweed, edible. The chickweed is the lime green plant with tiny white flowers trying to camouflage itself as alfalfa. (UC IPM)
Wild chicory flower, deep strong roots (Oswaldo Ochoa, UC Davis)
Plantain, more deep strong roots (UC IPM)
Sowthistle, deep roots (UC IPM)
Vetch, deep roots (UC ANR)
Fennel, more than an edible, also a pollinator attraction (DiTomaso, UC Davis Dept of Plant Science)
Wild radish flower heads attract pollinators (Di Tomaso, UC IPM)
One of several kinds of pigweed whose blooms attract pollinators(UC IPM)
Fava beans, widely used as green mulch in Napa County (UC ANR)
The Resilience Garden
Butte County has had its share of disaster and turmoil. Now we face a virus that may not go away...