{"id":20124,"date":"2018-11-11T20:10:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T19:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=20124"},"modified":"2018-11-11T20:10:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T19:10:46","slug":"dandelion-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=20124","title":{"rendered":"Dandelion harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dandelions are one of my favourite winter perennial vegetables. During the summer, wild dandelions sow themselves on my cultivated beds&#8230;.one of the advantages of having too much open soil! I deliberately let them grow on until late autumn when I dig up some of the roots, others left to grow on to the next year, and plant them in large pots ready to force later in the winter like witloof chicory. I usually force them by moving from storage in my cellar to a cool room in the house where I force them in the dark!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-20124 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=20128'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140309.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140309.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140309-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140309-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20128'>\n\t\t\t\tTopped up with sand\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=20127'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"639\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140312.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20127\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140312.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140312-300x243.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140312-768x621.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20127'>\n\t\t\t\tLeaves removed\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=20126'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140317.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20126\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140317.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140317-300x271.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140317-768x693.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20126'>\n\t\t\t\tPlanted in earth\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=20125'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"746\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140319.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20125\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140319.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140319-300x283.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1140319-768x725.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20125'>\n\t\t\t\tTopped up with sand\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dandelions are one of my favourite winter perennial vegetables. During the summer, wild dandelions sow themselves on my cultivated beds&#8230;.one of the advantages of having too much open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1936,150,1391,1937,1355],"tags":[475,676],"class_list":["post-20124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blanching","category-dandelions","category-foraging","category-forcing","category-perennial-vegetables","tag-dandelion","tag-taraxacum-officinale"],"views":5399,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20129,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20124\/revisions\/20129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}