Epizote takes the blow out of beans

[Smart Red]

After reading about Epizote, I went through my seed stash and found some I'd gotten in trade last year. Now I've got to find out how to grow them and if they will do well in my "neck".

Thanks ya'll.

Love and good to be back, Smart Red

 

[hoodat]

After reading about Epizote, I went through my seed stash and found some I'd gotten in trade last year. Now I've got to find out how to grow them and if they will do well in my "neck".

Thanks ya'll.

Love and good to be back, Smart Red

Welcome back. Epizote will grow anywhere you have 3 months of warm (the hotter the better) weather. It is one of what my grandma used to call "contrary plants" and is best ignored rather than tended to. Just toss the seeds into some odd corner you aren't using and let them do their thing. They love sidewalk cracks but you probably don't want them there.

 

[bj taylor]

it looks like a weed around here. does it have a very spiney/thorny stem?
it sounds like something i would love to grow

 

[seedcorn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphania_ambrosioides

May have to give it a whirl.

 

[hoodat]

it looks like a weed around here. does it have a very spiney/thorny stem?
it sounds like something i would love to grow

No thorns. What you are thinking of is probably careless weed which is native to Texas and Oklahoma. There are two varieties; smooth careless weed and thorny careless weed. The thorny one will tear you up if you try to pull it without sturdy gloves.

 

[897tgigvib]

Hoodat up in Montana we had a Pigweed that could tear up bare hands. I wonder if it was actually that thorny careless weed. Especially tough in later summer.

 

[hoodat]

I'm not sure but I think careless weed and pigweed are the same plant with a different name depending on the part of the country. It loves disturbed ground and was a real PITA in the cornfields of Oklahoma and Texas.

 

[MeggsyGardenGirl]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphania_ambrosioides

May have to give it a whirl.

I ordered some Epazote seed from Johnny's in Maine and have started some. I bought some dried from Penzey's and it seems to make a difference. We'll see about growing some...life is an experiment!