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12-12-2010, 05:53 PM
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| | | Wine from Salad Burnett.
My old Dad made a wine from the flower cluster of the salad burnett plant. Fancy giving it a go, so on which type of ground does this plant grow to give me an idea of where to start looking?
No, not now. .  . next spring or summer. Cheers, Tony. |
12-12-2010, 06:46 PM
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| | | Re: Wine from Salad Burnett.
It is found over much of England but mainly it grows on dry grassland on limy soils. Very common on old chalk downland in all the southern counties.
I presume you could use the leaves as well as the flowers?
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12-12-2010, 07:41 PM
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| | | Re: Wine from Salad Burnett.
Only the flower petals were used as far as I can remember, tiny things, nearer black than red. The curious thing was, he never drank! But he used to enjoy seeing the "Insurance man" go wobbling down the road after his weekly visit at Christmas time.
I live in Wiltshire but something tells me that Salisbury plain, although chalky is NOT the place to go looking for salad burnett. Cheers, Tony. |
12-12-2010, 08:26 PM
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| | | Re: Wine from Salad Burnett.
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Originally Posted by Kleftiwallah  Only the flower petals were used as far as I can remember, tiny things, nearer black than red. The curious thing was, he never drank! But he used to enjoy seeing the "Insurance man" go wobbling down the road after his weekly visit at Christmas time.
I live in Wiltshire but something tells me that Salisbury plain, although chalky is NOT the place to go looking for salad burnett. Cheers, Tony. | any old downland will have it. Around Devizes, Salisbury, wherever 
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12-12-2010, 10:44 PM
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| | | Re: Wine from Salad Burnett.
You can find Salad Burnet seed in places like Webbs. I noticed it last Spring and bought a packet, never tried it as I ran out of land.
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