Edible Flowers to Add to your Meals for Flavor

Growing flowers you can eat adds an extra element of surprise in your garden, offering up an opportunity to harvest more food.

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Imagine eating flowers in a salad of spring greens with raspberry vinaigrette. Or think of biting into a petal of chive blossom with its sweet-spicy flavor.

Edible Flowers

Basil Lavender Nasturtiums Pansies and Violas Primrose

Eating flowers safely

While a great many flowers are edible, not all are, so make a positive identification before you bite — be sure you know which flowers you can eat!

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Pick flowers in the morning while the moisture content is highest.

Prepare edible flowers in the morning

Eating flowers in your salads

Sprinkle edible flowers on top of green salads just before serving. Use pansies, Johnny jump-ups, and scarlet runner bean blossoms whole.

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Use floral petals sparingly for color and just a hint of flavor, in your baby lettuce mix. A light sprinkle of flowers has a more dramatic effect than an invasion of color and spice.

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