permaculture

[Jennifer Nazak <jnazak@yahoo.com>]

Me too Georg. The young leaves are a nice addition to salads, scrambled eggs 
etc. The seeds are (as I understand it) the wild version of amaranth, a tasty 
grain. Loved by my housemate's pet bird! And loved by humans too, amaranth 
is. I haven't got around to it yet but I do plan on experimenting with 
amaranth pancake recipes and such.

If for some reason my land was just toooo overrun with it, I would still not 
pull it out; but rather, would just "chop and drop" -- leave the roots 
intact; let the stems and leaves decay on the ground as mulch. This is one 
method to give nutrients back to the soil while avoiding disturbing the 
soil's structure. I like to leave the roots in place as "underground mulch".

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Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 15:53:31 +0200
From: georg parlow <g.parlow@gmx.at>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Bio-Control of Redroot Pigweed,    amaranthus
    spinosus
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my personal strategie is eating them.