On Mon, 28 May 2007 23:07:50 -0700, Bill Rose
wrote:

In article , Charlie wrote:

On Mon, 28 May 2007 23:52:15 -0500, zxcvbob
wrote:

For me, it's the johnny jump-ups trying to take over my vegetable
garden. I pull up a few that are unavoidably in the way, but mostly I
work around them -- at least until they've set seeds for next year.

When I first moved up here I thought violets were cute. I even dug a
few up from the lawn and put them in the flower beds! Little did I
realize how evil they are. Now I can't get rid of them.

Bob

Dandelions, the flowers don't go to seed, because we eats 'em. In
salads, sauteed, etc. Bees loves 'em too!

We also eats the leaves.

The French have an appropriate name for this "weed".

****enlit. Go figger.

Careful, Evening Salads May Disturb Your Sleep
Charlie

Good source of potassium, vitamin C & A too. Mild diuretic if you BP is
creeping up on you. Help make poor land rich, if you have the time.

Charlie, ever mess around with prunnela. The plant that is. (Don't want
to get you in hot water with the missus.) Understand she, it!, is good
for hypertension, among other things. I'm going to be 'sperimenting with
it and just wondered if you had any o'pins.

The name threw me so I looked it up... I know it as self-heal and yes I
have grown it. I wasn't aware of the hypotensive properties. We grew
it for it wound healing properties and I do believe it aided in such.
We would smoosh the leaves and apply to scratches, abrasions, etc and
felt it helped. They healed faster and with less inflammation.
Course, you know the old standard disclaimer applies here. ;-)

I assume your info came from pfaf and I checked there too.

Pulled up this old info from M. Grieve, a rather neat publication and
useful.

http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/s/selfhe40.html

Ya' know, folks have been eating and using many herbs for a long, long
time. 'Tis only recently that man began capitalizing on the quick fix.

Maybe the old saying, "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger" should
apply to herbal therapy!

Go for it

Charlie