Add hostas to the list of plants you may have your yard that serve double duty as both edible and ornamental. The entire plant can be eaten — from the young shoots that emerge from the ground in early ...

The plant is commonly known as Little White Soldiers or African Hosta and its botanical name is Drimiopsis maculata. It is not grown as an edible plant and should not be eaten. It is mainly cultivated ...

Are deer devouring your hostas? If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. The common shady plant is edible, it turns out. "The deer are onto something," said Pam McCurdy, who ate her first hosta dish in ...

Many of the plants that add color and texture to our yards also contain the right stuff for enriching our menus. Hosta, that familiar shady-side perennial, is grown commercially in parts of Asia as an ...

You know hostas? Those broad-leafed, perennial plants landscapers so often put in shady spots, or on the edges between gardens and lawns? Well, it turns out hosta shoots are edible. You can hear the ...

Some flowers and vegetables are as appealing in the home garden as they are on the menu. "We generally are interested in something to eat when we grow vegetables. In some cases, however, certain ...

Do you grow hostas? Even if you don’t know them by name, you’ll likely recognize their neat, rounded form in the garden. Hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3-8, they’re ...

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Just as there are variations in flavor and other culinary characteristics in vegetables, so are there in their less commonly used parts. Some members of the cabbage family have parts that have ...