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amaranth
Oct 14, 2014 20:00:51 GMT -5
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Post by littleminnie on Oct 14, 2014 20:00:51 GMT -5
I was thinking that I might save some lambs quarter seed now for indoor micro greens. Johnny's has that magenta spreen which is the same thing.
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Post by kyredneck on Oct 15, 2014 3:57:34 GMT -5
Lamb's Quarter is a welcome weed in my greens; many a mess of mustard and kale we've eaten includes the Lamb's Quarter that grows with it.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 15, 2014 18:02:07 GMT -5
Lamb's Quarter is a welcome weed in my greens; One time, I was at the farmer's market, and had bundles of spearmint greens sitting on the table. I looked down and noticed a  NIGHTSHADE weed in the bundle!!! Oh No! |
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Post by littleminnie on Oct 16, 2014 23:28:18 GMT -5
I cut a lot of salad greens and especially this time of year there are fallen tree leaves or milkweed leaves or etc. Nasty! I always say "foreign contaminant" in the robot voice from Wall-E when I pick them out.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 5, 2015 21:47:33 GMT -5
My neighbor for years has been telling me how much he enjoys eating redroot pigweed amaranth, Amaranthus retroflexus. I have a field that is filled with it this time of year. Since I was weeding today, I plucked some plants and took them home with me. When I got home I trimmed the roots off and boiled them. They were delicious and tender as can be. So I fed some to my woman. She told me how much she enjoyed eating them as a child, and that it was her job to gather them from a vacant field.
I suppose that I have just found the Eat-All Green for my garden...
Guess I know what I'm harvesting for the farmer's market this weekend: Amaranth!!!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 10, 2015 1:30:49 GMT -5
I picked a cooler full of amaranth for the farmer's market. I gave a big batch to the neighbor that told me about it. Sure was nice to get paid for weeding the garden. A few people knew what amaranth was and pigged out on it.  A few recognized it as a common weed and went home to pick their own. Most were timid to try a new food. One lady gave me some to taste that she had way over-cooked. Super nasty that way, so I was recommending very light cooking. |
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Post by castanea on Aug 15, 2015 12:04:12 GMT -5
"Most were timid to try a new food"
Aint that the truth.
I grew many varieties of culivated amaranths a few years ago and the next year I had a volunteer seedling that grew to monstrous proportions (8 feet tall with multiple large branches). I kept it because it had purple leaves and red flowers and was the largest and most vigorous amaranth I had ever seen. It wasn't like any of the amaranths I planted the year before. I spread seeds from it around in my yard and from that one plant I now have dozens of beautiful and tasty red or purple amaranths. Some have black seeds and some have golden seeds. Some of my neighbors have remarked on how beautiful they are, but no one wants to eat it.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Aug 15, 2015 13:55:23 GMT -5
Can you post a photo of this plant you are calling amaranth? There is a short weed here that i call pigweed and ot is known to be edible, there are even cultivated forms in seed catalogs. I've seen different people call some different weeds pigweed and others amaranth that are different from what i recognise or call them.
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Post by castanea on Aug 15, 2015 15:14:46 GMT -5
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Post by castanea on Aug 18, 2015 8:48:27 GMT -5
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Post by castanea on Aug 18, 2015 20:30:41 GMT -5
Can anyone see these linked photos?
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Post by steev on Aug 18, 2015 20:39:14 GMT -5
Same thing; they want sign-up.
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Post by castanea on Aug 19, 2015 23:19:59 GMT -5
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Post by castanea on Sept 8, 2015 23:38:44 GMT -5
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Post by darrenabbey on Sept 22, 2015 20:40:35 GMT -5
Is there anyone who has seeds of glyphosphate resistant Palmers Amaranth? Looks very interesting... What I find really interesting is how they became resistant. Very clever weed. The mechanism by which they became resistant is a pretty simple one. They duplicated a chunk of their genome with the genes for the target of the poison from two copies to hundreds ( msdssearch.dow.com/PublishedLiteratureDAS/dh_05fb/0901b803805fbb5d.pdf?filepath=dht/pdfs/noreg/010-42198.pdf&fromPage=GetDoc). This has the effect of reducing the exposure to the poison by hundreds (or requiring hundreds of times the poison to have same effect). This same mechanism of resistance turned up several times independently in my graduate school research (into drug-resistant yeast). |
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NIGHTSHADE
A few recognized it as a common weed and went home to pick their own. Most were timid to try a new food.
