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Daffodils

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:46 am
by Tigger
I know - they're flowers not veg, but they are edible!

Homebase are selling off 5Kg sacks of good quality bulbs for £1.35 instead of £6.99.

It's a little late for planting them out, but I chanced a few at that price.

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:59 am
by oldherbaceous
Dear Tigger it is a little late, but i have found it doesn't make a huge difference, just a little later flowering maybe.
But at £1.35 what a display you will have, you wouldn't even buy one bunch of daffs for that, and with your bulbs you will have the pleasure for years to come as well. :wink:
As long as you make a big effort to plant them, and don't leave them sitting in their sack, until you find them in the summer all shrivelled up. :shock: :D :wink:

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:37 am
by alan refail
Yo Tigger!

Daffs are edible?

Have you any recipes?

Before anyone is tempted try a Google search e.g. "Are daffodils edible". The general opinion is NO

I'm certainly not going to try - and I'm Welsh :!:

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:58 am
by Tigger
The bulbs aren't edible but the flowers are, or at least they were when I was at school. We did a biology project on edible plants. Goodness only knows why?! :roll:

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:47 pm
by Chantal
Many years ago I had a boyfriend who used to eat daffodil flowers, for no reason other than he was a total tit, but he never suffered any ill effects. :roll:

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 2:26 pm
by oldherbaceous
Dear Chantal, i don't suppose it was quite the same being given a bunch of stalks, :wink: no wonder you dumped him. :D

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 3:35 pm
by Chantal
He used to come to the house, see daffodils in a vase and eat the damn things. Why? He never actually gave me a bunch of stalks; don't think he ever gave me a bunch of anything to be honest. :roll: