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 ...

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 ...

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. Really.

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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 ...

Hosta, that familiar shady-side perennial, is grown commercially in parts of Asia as an edible. Cook its shoots as you would asparagus, or wrap them in bacon. Its flowers are appetizing too, and ...

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 ...

Hosta, that familiar shady-side perennial, is grown commercially in parts of Asia as an edible. Cook its shoots as you would asparagus, or wrap them in bacon. Its flowers are appetizing too, and ...

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Hosta, that familiar shady-side perennial, is grown commercially in parts of Asia as an edible. Cook its shoots as you would asparagus, or wrap them in bacon. Its flowers are appetizing too, and ...