On 21/04/2013 17:00, Pam Moore wrote:
On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:14:23 +0100, David Hill
wrote:

I wonder how many heard this mornings "On your Farm",

Eating your garden - James Wong guides us through eating your dahlias
and hostas

You can hear it here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s0309

Well worth listening to
David @ the cool and cloudy side of Swansea Bay

Intteresting. Thank you. I'd like to try hostas but by the time I've
decided the slugs have made them unsightly, it would be too late to
eat them. Now if I had a clump like they have at Beechgrove, I could
try have your hosta and eat it!

Pam in Bristol

The answer for Hostas may be to have a few large pots of them which
could be started inside to give early shoots for eating and then to
regrow new shoots for display for the season.

As for the Dahlias, it raises many questions.
Do you just use mature tubers?
Will immature tubers be like new potatoes?
How do you cook them?
Not to mention which varieties will be best to eat?

I can see me being busy in the kitchen