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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!
 

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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.
 

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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!
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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

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