Time to eat your WEEDS

THE next time you see a dandelion pushing its unwelcome head through the soil in your well-tended herbaceous border, consider this: dandelions are more nutritious than most of the vegetables in your garden.

They have more vitamin A than spinach, more vitamin C than tomatoes and are probably the richest herbal source of vitamin K, which helps build strong bones.

Hans Wieland lists the benefits with the assurance of a man who regularly encourages others not to beat the weeds in their gardens, but to cultivate and eat them.