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Question for 6/13/2018... Edible flowers... Jun 13, 2018 8:32:18 GMT -5

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I don't usually eat the flowers but I attended a little cooking class at Penn State Extension yesterday and she said that the flowers of all of the culinary herbs are edible. We had a pasta dish with herbs and I noticed that she included some dill flowers. I have never done that at home. She was saying that sage flowers are good too.

octave1 Veteran Posts: 940 Zone:: 5b Favorite Vegetable:: Radicchio Joined: December 2017	Question for 6/13/2018... Edible flowers... Jun 13, 2018 9:01:08 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by octave1 on Jun 13, 2018 9:01:08 GMT -5 I am sure that people who eat artichokes and figs know that those are flowers. I don't grow any flower to eat, but I like fried zucchini blossoms. IMO they are better than the zucchini themselves.
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Question for 6/13/2018... Edible flowers... Jun 13, 2018 10:29:04 GMT -5

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Post by pepperhead212 on Jun 13, 2018 10:29:04 GMT -5

Squash blossoms are a favorite of mine, too octave1. I usually harvest a bunch of the male blossoms, which appear in large numbers before the females on my butternuts.

I have tried some plants that supposedly have edible blossoms, but I was not impressed. Nasturtiums and chrysanthemums come to mind, but there were others.

Two herbs I grow, that happen to happen to have edible blossoms, are chives and Thai basil (regular basil blossoms are also good, but they get woody stems fast). The purple blossoms are often used as garnish, but there are many Asian dishes made with just chive blossoms, though you need a large patch of chives to make those!

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spike Veteran Posts: 4,204 Zone:: 6a Joined: July 2015	Question for 6/13/2018... Edible flowers... Jun 13, 2018 20:34:40 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by spike on Jun 13, 2018 20:34:40 GMT -5 Sunflowers for the seeds.
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Question for 6/13/2018... Edible flowers... Jun 14, 2018 7:47:47 GMT -5 aftermidnight likes this

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I've eaten a lot of flowers, and a lot depends on the dish and prep. Violets both in salads and candied on fancy cakes, nasturtiums, pansies, roses, carnations, blue sage flowers, all sorts of herb's flowers.

A salad with a few bright blossoms peaking out at you can be very pretty, too.

aftermidnight Veteran Not really a beginner, have been gardening near on 60 years. Posts: 1,219 Favorite Vegetable:: Beans Joined: January 2015	Question for 6/13/2018... Edible flowers... Jun 14, 2018 10:07:06 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by aftermidnight on Jun 14, 2018 10:07:06 GMT -5 Daylily, another flower that's edible, also Hostas. Annette

Deleted Posts: 0 Joined: January 1970	Question for 6/13/2018... Edible flowers... Jun 14, 2018 12:18:13 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2018 12:18:13 GMT -5 Stuffed squash blossoms, with a tempura batter, yum. if you really want to mix your ethnicity up, pour a slim stripe of hollendais sauce over them. Nasturtium leaves are edible, too.

aftermidnight Veteran Not really a beginner, have been gardening near on 60 years. Posts: 1,219 Favorite Vegetable:: Beans Joined: January 2015	Question for 6/13/2018... Edible flowers... Jun 14, 2018 15:16:39 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by aftermidnight on Jun 14, 2018 15:16:39 GMT -5 Nasturtium seeds make a good substitute for capers.

carolyn Veteran Posts: 834 Joined: July 2015	Question for 6/13/2018... Edible flowers... Jun 14, 2018 21:26:43 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by carolyn on Jun 14, 2018 21:26:43 GMT -5 begonias are also edible... very sour.

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