Did you know...
There are some flowers you can eat! Well, if you caught my dandelion posts then you probably knew that already. But there are lots of flowers you can eat. When gardens' leafy greens are on their way to seed, they of course produce flowers first. If you're trying to save your seeds for future plantings, then the flowers have to be left alone to mature their precious reproductive nuggets. But if you've been eating off your plants all season long and aren't seed-saving, then you can keep reaping the bounty of your greens as they start to flower.
In my experience, edible flowers usually resemble the flavor of the vegetable they come from, although sometimes the flavor can be different or even stronger than the vegetable itself (e.g. broccoli flowers may be slightly sweet, while the flowers of mustard greens may be intensely spicy). They make beautiful additions to salads, though when I have them around I find it hard not to devour them all straight. I picked these beauties from kale, broccoli, and arugula at the beloved Mad Tom community garden this fall, before it was sadly torn up by the city :(
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