The plant we called 'Pee The Bed' as kids.
Used for centuries as a diuretic (The French word for dandelion is pissenlit, which means "pee the bed."), its leaves can be steeped in hot water to make tea and its flowers can be used to make dandelion wine.
Its leaves work well in salads and its long taproot can be dried and used as an alternative to coffee.
I used to make beer/wine from kits when it was all the rage in the 1970s - The beer was a lager type and stunk to high heaven, but I still drank it
I kept the homemade wine in a bedroom cupboard, one night I heard explosions from the bedroom - The wine had had a 2nd fermentation and blew the corks off.
I once made a batch of wine from blackberries I'd picked - I traded some of the bottles to a joiner who made me a garden gate for them (g
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