John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com shares with you his wild-cultivated edible weed.. Lambsquarters aka Wild Spinach. After watching this video you will be better able to identify this popular wild food. You will also learn where you can easily find the seeds for a close relative of this plant.
Edible Gardening
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I bought seeds and having trouble growing them in a tray..what am I doing wrong..the instructions said put in a row and throwing a thin coat of soil on them and water them. I did but only getting small little stems with two small green leafs and not growing further. any help would be appreciated. The purslane seeds also having trouble with them. thanks so much loved your video keep it up..I truly feel the future with the gmos etc we need to have this info. love and light elizabeth
Do you have to worry about oxalates in this plant like regular spinach?
The coating on the seeds may be the same thing that coats quinoa seeds, which are saponins. You can probably just treat these seeds the same as any unwashed quinoa seeds, which taste bitter if this is not done. I would only bother with this if i had an abundance of these chenopodium, which can be harvested like quinoa. They are both in the amaranth family though their genus is chenopodium.
Spinach is also in the amaranth family, but its genus is spinacia, thus spinacia oleracea. i haven't tried the seed of lambsquarters, but the greens are delicious!
Wildgardenseed.com sells five(5) different versions of this plant also known as orach, mountain spinach or french spinach. There are at least 18 different varieties of this plant! For more information search Cornell University Cooperative Extension and Dept. of Horticulture….for this and many other plants as well!
Really interesting, I was wondering about grains(quinoa )as well as other items in our local health food store. And what else would grow? sweet potatoes, raw peanuts, all the different legumes? – cheaper than buying seeds.* You should do a whole show about what will grow (or sprout) from the store. If you did already , could someone tell me where to find it. Thx
People interested in wild edibles, and quite a few ornamentals that are also edible, should check out the YouTube channel Eat the Weeds. Also the website by the same name. EattheWeeds gives loads of info – including aids to accurate identification, history, where the plants grow, and also how to prepare them.
i can up a bunch at the end of the year.just can like for greens. works great.
use the roots like hand soap
John, you are a genius! Thank you so much for the tip about growing keenwah! Awesome!
Hey I'm growing this for the 1st time and the tops of the plant s are pink is this going to be better?
Have you tried rinsing the lambs quarters seeds before cooking or sprouting them? That is what takes the off-flavor away from the Quinoa. Put the seeds in a sieve and rub them around under running water for a minute or so, then go on with your preparation.
Interesting. Never knew we could grow it.
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Love lamb's quarters! Thanks for the Quinoa tip, I had no idea. I found a tiny LQ in my yard just this week and it's getting a place in my garden along with some quinoa, too. Awesome video!
Wow thanks that was sooo helpful I sure appreciate it!!!! Love your video
Hey john, have you ever grown Orach which is in the same family?
Great video . I subscribed to your channel. Good information and I am eating those edible weeds. They taste great. Thank you
I think you can get seeds from Mountain Rose
Purslane is delicious like eating a green apple!!!
Have you ever seen a translucent white spot disease(or insects larvae?) on the wild plants? The spot has some black on the inside too…. I thought it was bird poop at first LOL but sadly it is traversing over the whole garden, only the lambs quarter.
Very good video and information. Thank you so much.
If you have ever passed a "calcium oxalate" kidney stone, this is not something to be eaten in large quantity. Like spinach and rhubarb, the leaves and stems are loaded with oxalate. But unlike spinach and rhubarb, lambs quarters will not be on your "prohibited foods" list. Too bad – because they are all yummy.
Really a weed is only something that people decide they don't want in their gardens or mainly expensive Yards sodded etc. anything but the grass is a weed even if it was a cultivar like a tomato or carrots.. etc.
How do you grow quinoa at Sprouts
AKA Pigweed, according to Euell Gibbons.
Awesome I have some growing in my tomato plants and in my Aloe verde plants !I was wondering if it was edible? Wow now I know I can eat them in smoothies salad, cook them like spinach even put in my other recipes! Wonderful awesome tip that the Seeds arennot tasty ! I was wondering about them and will now Pinch seeds off with my fingers so I can promote larger leaf 🍃 growth ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and posting this informative video! A fan
finally, a short video
I love lambsquarter! Most people I tell about it are scared to try it because it's a weed, LoL. I've heard people say it's bitter but I don't find it to be so
I bought some lamb quarter seeds from strictly medicinal seeds online
https://strictlymedicinalseeds.com/
I'm starting to see this everywhere I go…and in Michigan I love it!…haven't tried it but I feel like I can find it no problem! ty again!
Hey .. Mr John, and everyone else Moniee-Mon, is listening thanks for the info vedios keep doing what'cha do best God bless ya!.
Holy jamoly, this is 11 years old, and you look younger in 2021 than in this video!! You're a living testiment to what you preach and eat!
I learned this plant was edible last spring, tried it and really enjoyed munching on this plant everytime I walked by them in the yard.
I felt a little energy boots, like immediately body was yelling at me, 'Heeeey! Thanks, we've been missing this in our diet! ' 🙂
Looks like a Christmas tree air freshener
Thanks for sharing in your wealth of knowledge 🤗
If you get a truck load of manure pile some up by your garden and you will have lambs quarters
Where was the information on growing it
I have the magenta variety all over the yard where we cleared the land to put in a garden. Wow, found out theses were wild foraged by my husband when he was a child in Mexico. Apparently popular there.
Still a weed, but cultivated by farmers in other countries. Think Mexico cultivates them for market. They do taste good.
I'm later than ever but it would be you with this video awesome didn't you used to sell juicers as well
Lamb's quarters is more delicious, more nutritious, and easier than anything people plant in its place after they unknowingly rip it out. I gathered seed because it's so much easier to grow things that naturally want to be there.