Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Laura McKenzie" <laurabrownmckenzie@worldnet.att.net>]

   Pego, indeed, we eat the lamb's quarters and the violets (I have three 
different types).  One type of violet I have takes over very quickly and 
drowns out everything in its path.  And its very difficult to pull up.  I 
leave it where I can and we use it in salads.  The chickweed I have is the 
fuzzy type.  Its edible but not all that palatable. Picture eating a fuzzy 
African Violet leaf... the texture would be similar.   It makes great 
compost instead.  I have sorrel naturalized in lots of garden spots and we 
love to eat that right in the garden.

   I have a photo of my nearly 6 foot tall son holding up our record 
winning lamb's quarters plant . The plant extends about 8 inches beyond 
Sean's stretched out arm.  "Aztec Spinach"... same genus, different species 
I believe, does very well here and grows quite large.

   BTW, I leave the Lamium amplexicaule (henbit) in the ground as long as 
possible because the honeybees seem to love it and its one of the first 
forages for them in the spring.  I have the henbit coming up all over the 
lawn making the back yard very ugly but won't let anyone cut it down until 
the bees are done with it.


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