When your wife is also a natural lawn mower.

@Background Pony #E31A  
She did serve 40 minutes in Cute Pony Prison.

She deserved time in jail for unholy levels of adorableness. It’s more than anyone should have to endure in one lifetime.

Fun fact: the Dutch name for dandelion is literally “horseflower”.

i am seriously keeping a look out for these now ^^

Ben Shaw’s Dandelion & Burdock soda is pretty good.

And I’m familiar with dandelion and burdock, specifically its use for making cordials, because I read a lot of Redwall books. They are also how I know of damsons and a couple varieties of flowers.
 
Burdocks were also apparently part of how velcro was invented, as they were the clingy hooked seeds that inspired the inventor after walking his dog.

I love everything about this idea.

HNNNNG X3c

@mbeeston
 
@Pagan  
Burdock is a close cousin of dandelion, and that’s made into a rootbeer-like soda in the UK. Often with regular dandelions in it too. More surprisingly, lettuce is basically a domesticated dandelion. Before it was bred into tight green balls of unusual size leaves, it was much more recognizably a dandelion than even burdock is. If you let it go to seed its lineage still becomes pretty recognizable:
 

 
It’s taller and has more flowers per plant than a typical “weed” dandelion, but those yellow ray flower inflorescences and fluffy seed masses are definitive. Wild spiny lettuce is even a common weed you’ve probably seen and mistaken for scraggly dandelions, if you’re anywhere in North America.

needs moar “nom” tag

>Weeds  
>>1245107

nice!

@mathprofbrony  
Bravo!

Richard Bopp would eat the crop
 
his wife would eat the weed
 
and so between the two of them
 
they ate the garden neat!

@Pagan  
i have but i haven’t been able to try it ._.
 
@AaronMk  
same thing with humans and nearly every animal ever. but normal garden weeds like the ones she’d find in her garden are the same ones you’d find in nearly any pasture, so there wouldn’t be a problem either way.

@Cyborg_pony
 
Setting aside the dandelion salad and wine talk:
 
Pretty sure horses can be pretty picky. It’s actually a bad idea if you’re walking by a horse farm to give the horses some of the grass from the other side of the fence because they may have a food allergy you’re not aware of. An innocuous clump of grass or plants may be a bad idea to give them, especially when they’ve been fed an otherwise specialized diet of tolerable grass in their pasture and feed.
 
But in a world of sentient pony then this can be thrown out the window.

@kircher  
Ha, convenient.

@Pagan  

@kircher  

@Pagan  
No, but I have read a lot of Ray Bradbury.

@mbeeston  
You ever have dandelion wine? It’s amazing.

i though she didn’t liked weed because it tasted gross. or taste changes in different places?

Of course.

And this is why Brownie Bun is adorable and awesome.