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NickiWilliams

  • Joined Jun 2012
Edible Flowers - gardening without green fingers
« on: June 05, 2012, 03:21:57 pm »
Hi, not quite sure which category to put this in - so have plumped for this! Does anyone have any hints, tips or suggestions for a non-gardener without any green fingers, or even thumbs, wanting to grow edible flowers; nastertium etc

Thank you!    :yum:

deepinthewoods

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Re: Edible Flowers - gardening without green fingers
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2012, 03:28:58 pm »
nasturtiums are easy, but they dont like good soil, theyll grow but not flower. sow them where nothing else does well.

colliewoman

  • Joined Jul 2011
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Re: Edible Flowers - gardening without green fingers
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2012, 11:13:55 pm »
Not quite what your after, but runner bean flowers are the tastiest snack ever :yum:
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Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
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Re: Edible Flowers - gardening without green fingers
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2012, 11:16:41 pm »
Borage is a good pretty flower. Looks great placed in ice cubes for summer drinks oo.  :thumbsup:
It grows almost like a weed so pretty easy.

Fleecewife

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Re: Edible Flowers - gardening without green fingers
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2012, 11:49:37 pm »
Another one is pot marigold (ie not French or African) where the petals can be sprinkled on a salad.  It's the easiest flower to grow.  Pansy and violet flowers can also be eaten.  Then of course there's globe artichoke, cauliflower, sprouting broccoli where the part you eat is the flower bud - but maybe that's not what you mean.
Do you have any particular flowers in mind?
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tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
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Re: Edible Flowers - gardening without green fingers
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2012, 09:36:56 am »
Rose pettals, Iseem to remember my Mum doing candied  violets .
 

Factotum

  • Joined Jun 2012
Re: Edible Flowers - gardening without green fingers
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2012, 02:17:52 pm »
Hi

Thompson and Morgan have a good list of edible flowers on their web-site. You may already have some of them growing in your garden...

Link : http://www.thompson-morgan.com/edible-flowers

Hope this helps

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Edible Flowers - gardening without green fingers
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2012, 02:28:53 pm »
Definitely nasturtiums and marigolds (Calendula) - hard to stop them growing and they're pretty too  :)

ddangus

  • Joined Jul 2012
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Re: Edible Flowers - gardening without green fingers
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2012, 01:03:07 pm »
Daylilies (Hemerocallis) are pretty tasty depends a bit on the variety. Easy to grow , quite bigand pretty as well.

 

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