Lamb's Quarters

Sheep make the soil fertile for the garlic we grow and now that we've harvested it, I let the lambs into the beds to graze the weeds—appropriately enough called Lamb's Quarters*—that also grow well in the rich soil. 

We stopped hoeing about two weeks before harvest when the garlic was large enough to not be disadvantaged in the competition for soil nutrients, sunlight and water with the robust Lamb's Quarters growing alongside it.

*Lamb's Quarters grow abundantly upstate; like many leafy greens they are nutritious for humans as well as for sheep.  Lamb's Quarters are excellent steamed and taste mildly like asparagus.