Lamb's Quarters & Poem's Too
Posted 6/5/2008 8:58am by Eugene Wyatt.
Weeds are the native plants of gardens, they seed and grow better than the gardener’s crops, which are usually imported from elsewhere.
Poem likes to hang out with us when we're weeding the garlic which originally grew in Central Asia. In the photo, garlic is the upright plant with slender blue-green leaves, now about 6 weeks from harvest. Below Poem and just to the left of her is an ever so edible weed, called Lamb’s Quarters. As delicious as this gift of nature is, it will smother the garlic if we don’t pull it.
Poem likes to hang out with us when we're weeding the garlic which originally grew in Central Asia. In the photo, garlic is the upright plant with slender blue-green leaves, now about 6 weeks from harvest. Below Poem and just to the left of her is an ever so edible weed, called Lamb’s Quarters. As delicious as this gift of nature is, it will smother the garlic if we don’t pull it.
Lamb’s Quarters are different from commonly eaten greens; they have the delicate and unique taste (unlike lettuces or brassicas which taste mostly alike) of fresh asparagus when steamed or eaten cru. Being an indigenous plant it is thought to be healthy for people who live where it grows. If you would like to try Lamb’s Quarters, Morse of Windfall Farms purposely grows some in his greenhouse and brings it to market. Or ask me and I’ll grab a bunch from the garlic beds for you.
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