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RE: Failures in Living Sustainably: Growing Food for Groundhogs

in #gardening6 years ago

It's ok... it means we have one less task to worry about! Not really giving up actually, the fence is now without holes and we're keeping an eye on it.

I also have been letting the milkweed grow and something ate all the tops!!! I wanted to try the flowers as fritters...

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With eats milkweed??? Is it useful? I thought it was poison.

Supposedly cooked shoots, leaves, seedpods and flowers are edible (they say it is poisonous when raw). And I hear they are also great for monarch butterflies!