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[Mesterh]

I think you can make a coffee substitute from dandelion roots and they are supposed to have many health benefits from root to flower. They are a really good source of food for insects at this time of year. Only stuff ive read a long time ago.

 

We always used to call them wee the beds as kids as apparently they make you 'wee the bed' if you eat them. Probably just some propaganda from big pharma like.

 

 

 

[sime42]

I'm sold on the idea. Half! Quite intrigued to try brewing some root beer.

 

 

[sime42]

Though after reading this, maybe not.

 

"The flavour of dandelion and burdock seems to follow a bell curve of: too sweet, horrible, really rather nice, horrible, poisonous – with the 'quite nice' occurring at the 3–4 week point and extendable by keeping it in the fridge."

 

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Dandelion and burdock roots, being perennial, are available all year, but it is important to collect them only when the...

 

[Mark Bolam]

14 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I have 3 hectares of grassland behind my garden that hasn’t seen any chemicals in decades.

I have the best of both worlds.

Exactly.

I like to think I’m breeding healthier insects by trying to keep my lawn weed free.

If they can’t be arsed to fly about 20m to the weed infested park adjacent to me then they deserve to die.

[Mike Hill]

When I dug up my lawn I discovered an ancient road beneath. I asphalted the whole thing rapidly before the authorities discovered it,its heating to see inscets warming themselves up on the tarmac,its like a sunbed for creepy crawlies.

[Steve Bullman]

Everyone seen that quite disturbing snooker video?

[peds]

The video of the fella nibbling on either a young lad or a remarkably androgynous young woman's ear? 

 

Yeah, pretty weird. You'd hope there's a reasonable explanation... but it doesn't seem likely, does it.

[Steve Bullman]

2 minutes ago, peds said:

The video of the fella nibbling on either a young lad or a remarkably androgynous young woman's ear? 

 

Yeah, pretty weird. You'd hope there's a reasonable explanation... but it doesn't seem likely, does it.

Yep that’s the one 

[topchippyles]

10 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Everyone seen that quite disturbing snooker video?

No 

[Steve Bullman]

Just google man biting ear snooker