Is it a weed or is it free food?

Most flowers are also edible and yes there are numerous weeds that grow in my garden that I know are edible and can be used to medicinally. However, there is enough to eat right now so I don't need to eat them

Just be careful not to eat any plants that someone has sprayed with a pesticide or herbicide, both are dangerous for your health.

Let's see. I have eaten dandelions, mallows, henbit, miners lettuce, sow thistle, and some I can't think of right now. I also enjoy eating flowers like hollyhocks, calendula, roses, and nasturtiums. I'm sure there are some I'm forgetting, but I don't think I will starve if these plants are around. The photo shows a pot of henbit. I think I might have made a post about it here.

I know that dandelions flowers are edible and also the young leaves are, they are not the only "weeds" that are edible. It is important to know the plants before trying, some are poisonous. I also love wild mushrooms, I am very careful with them.

I know many of the edibles but not enough, yes I have cooked a pot of dandelion greens.

My parents used to serve dandelion greens to us kids all the time. I thought they were gross, but they are nutritious. I prefer wild berries. Blackberries, raspberries, wild blueberries, strawberries and other edible wild berries and fruit.

Wooww! That is a lot of edible plants! I have eaten Dandelions and Nettles, have to learn more..

I had seen so many edible plants on this link. I never thought it is possible. Thank you for sharing it.

We're too young to have this knowledge. The grown-ups who lived during WW2 and the post-war period certainly knew about this. I remember a bit from my early childhood years. You can make soup from nettles and eat the leaves of yarrow on a slice of bread with butter. You can slice an apple, let the peelings dry and make tea with them. You can also make tea from the fruits of linden trees. The problem is only that nowadays nearly everything is contaminated with fertilisers. This was not the case in the post-war years.

I haven't eaten any edible weed except the flowers on clover, plantains, and a few edible flowers in salads. No pesticides!!!

I know they're edible, though I've never eaten them.

When I was a child I used to eat some lemon-flavoured green leaf that grew in the woods. I have no idea what it was.

I just did a post on salad with a twist!! I uploaded a picture of asparagus strawberries and flowers!!!! That's right U responded!!!! Do U put dandelion and other edible weeds and flowers in your salad!!!!! I suddenly have a craving for dandelion!!!!!!

There are many wild plants here that are edible. I don't know their names but sometimes I follow one of the older ladies around and pick what they do!

@1hopefulman Edible Weeds? I could live on them----but it would have to be a whole lot of 'em

My brother used to sit on top of me and try and make me eat grass as a kid. Who knew it had nutritional value?

I've heard of several, but I have never eaten any of them. But if I had to...