A Low-Down Dirty Weed

[so lucky]

I know something else about redroot pigweed...chickens love it!

Mine don't. It's growing in their yard, and they ignore it.

 

[Carol Dee]

UGH, I spent most of Sunday weeding the garden. It looks pretty good now. But pulling the pig weed was frusterating. Most broke off at soil line and will be back! grrr

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

I feel bad for you all. That sounds like a rediculous weed! I don't think we have it around here. At least I haven't seen it. What we have is Burdock. It is near impossible to get rid of. Roots about a mile and a half long!! Break them off and they just come back with vigor.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Pigweed is related to amaranth, right? I wonder if sufficient research has been done to find a use for these super tough plants. Medicinal? paper pulp? animal feed? fuel? building material? ("My house has a pigweed block foundation and 6" pigweed fluff insulation") If it becomes useful, it will probably then develop some dread disease, and wipe itself out. :/

Try feeding it to pigs.

My import from cow manure was burdock. Nuff said.

When I was a kid I'd feed a lot of that to our pigs, especially late in the summer and the fall as we headed toward butchering time so I guess I could call it hogweed. Dad called it careless weed. The pigweed I have here has thorns, nasty thorns. I guess that's the same weed. I sure don't remember the stuff I fed to the pigs having those thorns, not that the pigs would care.

 

[dewdropsinwv]

I just got done running the stirrup ho over the entire garden!!!! I can say there were billions of those nasty weeds in the garden. Carol dee, ours will be back also.... tons of little ones out there still.