Healthy backyard weeds

Arrowwind09

\r\n \r\n I have about 8 pounds of Lambs quarters in my freezer right now. Hope to have about 20 pounds by the end of the season. The more you pick it the more it grows.
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\nNew Zealand spinach grows wild in the San Deigo area. \r\n

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I have about 8 pounds of Lambs quarters in my freezer right now. Hope to have about 20 pounds by the end of the season. The more you pick it the more it grows.

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They say the seeds of Lamb\'s Quarters were ground into a dark meal and used by the Southwest Indians for everything from cakes to gruel. They also make a hearty flour when mixed half and half with regular wheat flour. Seeds can be boiled whole until soft for a nourishing breakfast cereal.
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\nLamb\'s Quarters are known to contain 309 milligrams of calcium per 100 grams of the raw edible portions and 258 grams after being boiled and drained. The green is roughly 80-90% water. The same amount is said to have 11,600 IUs of Vitamin A when raw, 9,700 when cooked, plus significant amounts of thiamine, riboflavin and niacin.\r\n

ozzie

\r\n \r\n We have plenty of stinging nettles in our vegie patch,they have just gone to seed now,so next time they come up I will dry some for tea,they are also meant to be very good for horses dried, our old horse used to love wild rose hips as well.
\r\nStinging nettles are meant to be a good sign that you have healthy soil if they grow in your garden.
\r\nWe also have purslane growing wild in our back yard, I have tried it and it has a sort of lemony taste.
\r\nI know there not a weed but I like Nasturtium leaves, and the seeds can be pickled like capers\r\n

jfh

\r\n \r\n The only herb that survives the deer around my house is rosemary. I know it is not a weed. Just thought I would mention. The deer don\'t leave me much of anything except rosemary, lantana, and butterfly bush. I have one rose bush, but I have to surround it with its own personal fence. The deer even seem to like oxalis which is a weed and useless. So I thank them for that.\r\n

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The only herb that survives the deer around my house is rosemary. I know it is not a weed. Just thought I would mention. The deer don\'t leave me much of anything except rosemary, lantana, and butterfly bush. I have one rose bush, but I have to surround it with its own personal fence. The deer even seem to like oxalis which is a weed and useless. So I thank them for that.

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Rosemary with lemon wedges is awesome on chicken. There\'s a canyon near our house that has stinging nettles. Sure is fun to harvest. I\'ve collected dandelion heads when I see them go to seed. It took about 6 months of letting them grow in a pot wild (lol) and they are huge! At the health food store the dandelion greens are this huge....about 8 inches.\r\n

Arrowwind09 · 11:24 AM

\r\n \r\n All the lambs quarters has now bolted in my yard, It is huge and the tips are loaded with seed. I can see now how easy it is to harvest enough seed to make flour.
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\nI started collecting seed this week. It pulls off easily but so many bugs! Clearly the bugs think this is a great feast also. Hundreds of them. After collecting the seed I just leave the dish to sit and the bugs leave. Makes me wonder about using this stuff for food though... all that bug poo!\r\n

jfh

\r\n \r\n I had some hippie friends, way back when, that became somewhat reclusive in a rural area and used lamb\'s quarters as one of their main source of food, as well as millet and garden veggies. They appeared to be very healthy. They used it in various fashion.
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\nThey also used a lot of miner\'s lettuce. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped...nia_perfoliata\r\n

Arrowwind09

\r\n \r\n Yep, miner\'s lettuce is on my list to experiment with eventually. I think Johnny\'s seed catalogue has it. Right now Im delighting in New Zealand spinach, a weed in San Deigo, a delicacy in my garden.. I planted a bunch but only three plants survived to grow up... good thing as they took over. It gets rather large and sprawling... and again, it seems that the more you pick it the more it grows.\r\n

jfh · � #1 � 08-02-2011, 07:46 AM

Even the weeds are failing in this Texas triple digit heat. Scorched.

Five of them.
https://www.livescience.com/15322-hea...ard-weeds.html

Dandelion is one of the healthiest and most versatile vegetables on the planet. The entire plant is edible. The leaves are like vitamin pills, containing generous amounts of vitamins A, C and K � far more than those garden tomatoes, in fact � along with calcium, iron, manganese, and potassium.

Aside from being surprisingly tasty for a crack dweller, purslane tops the list of plants with omega-3 fatty acids, the type of healthy fat found in salmon.

Lamb's-quarters are like spinach, except they are healthier, tastier and easier to grow.

Plantain has a nutritional profile similar to dandelion � that is, loaded with iron and other important vitamins and minerals.

Nettles tastes a little like spinach, only more flavorful and more healthful. They are loaded with essential minerals you won't find together outside a multivitamin bottle, and these include iodine, magnesium, potassium, phosphorous, silica and sulfur. Nettles also have more protein than most plants.

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