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[Rhodie Ranch]

I'm like Marie. I have a large rack in my great room. All laundry goes there, except for sheets, which get thrown over an open door. Saves a ton of energy, and doesn't beat up our clothes. Adds moisture to the air too. Once summer comes, that rack will go outside.

 

[peteyfoozer]

Other Weeds? I miss having the pigweed and lambs quarters showing up, as they cheerfully did in other gardens over the years. Miss them but not quite enough to grow them intentionally here at home.

What did you do with pigweed and lambs quarters?

 

[Dahlia]

What did you do with pigweed and lambs quarters?

I want to try lamb quarters, but haven't found any out in the wild. I heard it tastes like mild spinach.
I had chickweed volunteering and thriving in one of my past gardens. What a lovely plant and vegetable! It is an excellent substitute for sprouts or lettuce on sandwiches, tacos, or burgers! I wouldn't bother trying to grow it, but since it's there just begging to be eaten - I eat it!

 

[Zeedman]

And, to my great embarrassment, I had to BUY plantain leaves as this ranch is apparently the only place on earth it doesn’t grow.

There's such a place??? Am I on the dream thread??? [pinching self]

 

[Zeedman]

What did you do with pigweed and lambs quarters?

Don't mean to speak out of turn, but I'm guessing @digitS' cooks them as greens. In a previous garden (where they both hitchhiked in barnyard manure) those "weeds" were the first greens I harvested. Very tasty, although the texture of the lambs quarter takes a little getting used to. Highly nutritious, and you can harvest them several times if you keep cutting the plants back.

 

[peteyfoozer]

Don't mean to speak out of turn, but I'm guessing @digitS' cooks them as greens. In a previous garden (where they both hitchhiked in barnyard manure) those "weeds" were the first greens I harvested. Very tasty, although the texture of the lambs quarter takes a little getting used to. Highly nutritious, and you can harvest them several times if you keep cutting the plants back.

Thanks!

 

[Marie2020]

I want to try lamb quarters, but haven't found any out in the wild. I heard it tastes like mild spinach.
I had chickweed volunteering and thriving in one of my past gardens. What a lovely plant and vegetable! It is an excellent substitute for sprouts or lettuce on sandwiches, tacos, or burgers! I wouldn't bother trying to grow it, but since it's there just begging to be eaten - I eat it!

Again, lamb quarters is another thing I have not seen or heard of. But if it is similar to spinach I'd love it.

 

[Marie2020]

Don't mean to speak out of turn, but I'm guessing @digitS' cooks them as greens. In a previous garden (where they both hitchhiked in barnyard manure) those "weeds" were the first greens I harvested. Very tasty, although the texture of the lambs quarter takes a little getting used to. Highly nutritious, and you can harvest them several times if you keep cutting the plants back.

I wonder if these plants have grown in my garden and I've missed them.

 

[baymule]

My sheep love lambs quarters but I don’t have any growing here. The plants got 6 feet tall, made little trees. LOL

 

[digitS']

Finally, a clear sky this morning. A chance of midday rain or snow but it is just a little below freezing, supposed to have a some sunshine.

Lambs quarters are very much an in-the-corner of a wheat field weed. They may also show up in a corral that was used in the Winter but not in the other months of the year. Seems to give 2 meanings, along with leaf shape, to the name.

Red-root pigweed was  waayy too common in some of my gardens. It's leaves are very much like beet greens. It's a little coarse and both these weeds are best as young plants. Lambs quarters especially will benefit from a early Spring harvest.