Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pumpkin Lady <pumpkingal@clearwire.net>]

I have lamb's quarters/henbit growing on my land and I let 
it go to grain this year. It is all quite heavy and has a 
nice crop of seeds, but since it is mostly in the yard, it's 
quite messy looking. It's starting to bug me. When can I 
harvest it to dry?

I may or may not eat the grain. Reading has left me unsure 
so I need to do more research, but in any case, I plan to 
get birds of some sort next year and, as the henbit/fat hen 
name implies it's quite good as chicken feed, so well worth 
saving if only for that. I may not even have to thresh it if 
I only feed it to birds, just remove it from the stalks and 
bag it in metal trash cans once it's dry. I read they are 
also usable as "sprouts" so there's useful stuff I can do 
with it. I just have to figure out what works for me. ;-)

Thanks for any insights,
Morgan