Dandelions Everywhere!

In my adventure to eat healthy, I’ve run across a few strange things. I’ve tried to branch out from the basic green leaf lettuce and try some new stuff. I really tried. One day at the grocery store, I was feeling particularly adventurous and bought some weird mix of greens. It said it was a spring mix or something. Sounded cheerful enough, so I thought I’d give it a try. I got one bite into it and decided there wasn’t enough ranch dressing in the world to make that taste good. It was as bitter as a 6 month old beer that’s been rolling around in the back of a pickup all summer. YUCK! So I read the label on the package it came in. There was DANDELION leaves in it! WHAT????!! Sick! No wonder it tasted like WEEDS!

So today, I was in my yard digging up my flower beds to get rid of weeds and replant all the bulbs that were being overtaken. By dandelions. In fact, my whole YARD is being overtaken by the sorta-pretty weeds. They multiply before my very eyes! And they don’t double from one year to the next. They about quadruple. I sure wish my stinkin’ flowers would grow like that…..but whatever. And dont let the name fool ya. They are NOT dandy at all.



So it got me thinking. At first i was going to try this spray stuff i bought that promises to wipe out the tenacious yellow pests. Then i was going to get fertilizer that says it will make my grass grow green and kill the lovely dandelions. But I never pass up an opportunity to serve the public and these health-food-nuts are a bit crazy. The will apparently pay $5.00 for nasty bitter WEEDS to eat. And they like organic stuff….. Well let me tell ya something. I have a plan. I’m going to start selling my dandelions. GOURMET salad greens! And I’ll even cut you a smoking’ deal. Only FOUR bucks a pound! Not even $5.00 like at the grocery store! It's a steal. Especially considering that it is even organically fertilized! My neighbors dog does it for me! Occasionally the chickens help too. Doubly organic.



I expect a line around the block by tomorrow morning!

Now i just gotta figure out how to market these tumbleweeds.....