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I mean, what's it for? It must have been invented by god very late on the Saturday because it's bloody useless. What's it good for, eh? It's useless as a nettle sting appeaser, it tastes like pondweed and it invades your veggie patch from the very moment you think you've finished it.

There's no excuses, so don't try (one statement in favour of the bloody dock means that you're an alien spy). Even the obvious - graft a cabbage onto a dock root, which should be easy and would guarantee cabbages for life with zero club root - apparently won't work. Useless - bloody completely useless.

This has been an appeal on behalf of the Save Our Dock campaign.

You could also say the same about ragwort, probably invented on that same Saturday afternoon.
At least with dock the seeds only spread a few yards but ragwort gets blown in from the next county, and is poisonous to boot (and other items of footwear as well, not to mention bovine type animals)
It is relatively pretty in flower though.

We have something that has now been called the dock garden, they seem to have flourished in a bit of ground where the piggy thinks it is funny to dig up all the grass, they are a bugger there all right. In the veg garden, they are no problem at all, in my well mulched raised beds, you can pull the whole thing out root intact, chuck it over the fence where the alpaca's think they are manna from the goddess

Here you go

http://www.eatweeds.co.uk/learn-about-dock-rumex

Two video clips to help you get in touch with your inner Dock lover.

That, GA, is most definitely the absolute best example of famine food.
It may well be marginally edible, but why would you want to.

Come on admit it, you would rather eat Brussels sprouts than dock leaves.

EDITED: horror of horrors, I made a spelling mistake

Crikey, that's a tough call. I'll give dock a try before I make my decision. Don't hold your breath.

Although I do like dandelions.

According to my maths and those videos, it takes over 10 minutes to get a tiny fingerful of edible dock into an edible state - and even then, there's a warning on the site that it's an acquired taste. I pass.

I'd rather eat blancmange (**shiver**).

AND WHAT'S WRONG WITH BLANCMANGE ??

It would take me back to my childhood if my memory wasn't so bad.
Home made blancmange made with freshly milked full cream Jersey milk with a laurel leaf infused.
Lovely and almondy, if slightly poisonous.

... but that skin on top of the blancmange!!!!! YECCCHHHHHHHHHH!!

WOT ??
The best bit, and the skin on custard, and the skin on rice pudding, and the skin on milky bedtime drinks, and the skin on roast pork.
What's that got to do with dock leaves though ?

Can't remember. Fun, isn't it?

Not liking skin on custard etc - grounds for divorce. Actually no it's not - more for me.

OMG! I'm trapped with a bunch of ... errrrrr .... dermophages. Yes, that'll do.

Well I agree with you Mike, about dock AND blancmange skin - only liked by seriously weird people

Well I'd hate to be thought frivolously weird.