Can I get an ID for what’s growing under my asparagus in Central PA?
by scatmang
Can I get an ID for what’s growing under my asparagus in Central PA?
by scatmang
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Lamps Quarter. Kinda a weed but it’s edible and actually very high in nutrients
In the UK we know it as Fat Hen. Can be eaten young like spinach, cooked.
Seeds everywhere easy to pull out young, get to know the cotyledon seed leaves because they are easy to hoe out.
High in nutrients, but high in oxalic acid too unless prepared correctly. Needs to be boiled and water thrown out to remove the oxalic acid.
Lambs quarters good eating
Honestly I’d leave the lambsquarters. They’re pretty tenacious at reseeding and can be a ground cover for you as the asparagus ferns go high.
But easy to pull if you decide to pull. Better than another weed that could come in.
You’re looking at max height right now.
Could be bindweed or some fucker.
Chenopodium album, fat hen or goose foot or lamb’s quarters. Close relative of quinoa. Greens are edible, as are the seeds (with processing to remove the saponins). Staple food for ancient humans (ötzi the ice man’s last meal included seeds of this plant). I find it delicious cooked, it has almost a meaty taste that’s unexpected from greens; my favorite thing I ever made with it was a stew of salted beef, stone ground oats, and fat hen greens.
Probably way more nutrition in those lamb’s quarters than in all your asparagus combined.
At the end of the day it’s a weed that you should pull out now while it’s easy. I hate dealing with weeds in my asparagus garden.
Somebody check me on this, but I read another benefit of it is that aphids prefer it to your veggies. They will eat it before anything else.
I had some sprout in old pots, and transplanted it to its own “patch”
straight up need a banana nestled in there. I thought I was looking at bamboo, like 4-6” in diameter and that the weeds were approx knee-high
We used to feed our pet rabbit lambs quarters
Goosefoot! This and creeping charlie are the first two ‘weeds’ of the season I have to fight perpetually. maybe I should just eat them all
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