Borage

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There are super foods and hyper super foods and then there is borage little used in cooking or anything else a traditional plant that grows wild or by gardeners for its flowers but there is so much more to it .

In the garden it aids plants it is interplanted with esp. Tomatos & strawberries. Strenghts them against rot

In cooking it can be used in salads,sauces, jellies, chutneys , soups desserts , tea , consumme , cocktails

The flower is great in salads can be candid for pastry

The blue dye is edible from the plant but goes pink in acid (vinegar)

It grows in wood lands and pastures

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