#lamb's quarter

[antimony-ore]

Ough freaking catpillar eat my chenopodium 😡

[inthecityofgoodabode]

March 2025: The Long Overdue Post - Part 2

I exceeded the 30 image limit so I had to make a part 2.

Red-bellied woodpecker:

Turnips:

Pumpkins sprout in our compost bin:

White-throated sparrow in our weeping cherry:

Some of our cool season vegetables that didn't thrive refused to die. We'll eventually have to pull them out to make room for the warm season vegetables but I'm going to try to rehome some of them:

2024 was the last year for our red Russian kale that we'd had for several years but its children survived:

I think this is lamb's quarter which is edible. I'll probably have to move it since it is taking up valuable growing space but I want to rehome it so I can see what it tastes like:

[herbjournal]

Lamb’s Quarters 

 Sources: 

http://www.digherbs.com/lambs-quarter.html

https://www.herbal-supplement-resource.com/lambs-quarters-herb-uses.html

[antimony-ore]

Tree spinch 👍 (this stuff is hard to farm on purpose and doesn't come back, I'm hoping for seeds this year)

[castironmama]

Baby goosefoot. Growing like grass in my backyard. I remember when the realtor showed us the backyard he was nervous because it was all overgrown. But I saw the goosefoot and got excited. I don't think he really understood me.

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

Saving seeds from Lamb’s Quarter (Chenopodium album)

These weren’t quite as ripe/dry as I thought they should be, but they were in with some tomato plants I was removing and were going to get wrecked in the process, so I went ahead and harvested them. I think I’ll have plenty, even if germination is low.

So, yes, it’s a weed, but it’s an edible and nutritious one, so I let one plant at the urban farm and one at my house go to seed. Why not turn it into a crop, since it obviously grows well under existing conditions?

I basically just stripped the seed stuff off each branch by hand. I’ll let the contents of the plastic container dry for a week or so, stirring regularly, and then winnow out at least the big stuff. The little black dots are the actual seeds. There’s a lot of chaff, but if it gets to be too much trouble to separate I’ll just sprinkle the lot of it on the soil when I plant in the spring.