Biodiverse Polyculture (USDA 8a Zone Pasture) - sounds better than "My Acres of Weeds"

[allenw]

Weeds are just a plant growing in the wrong place.

You might find something interesting here, Understanding Ag, a youtube link.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I just gotta ask... can anyone solve this? It's on my bag of fenugreek seeds, and waaay beyond me.

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Anthony's is like that. and Calculus was the math that made me change majors.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Amaranth is just fancy pigweed.

Yes, but I couldn't buy "pigweed seeds" to grow crops for my chickens to forage on....

 

[3KillerBs]

Yes, but I couldn't buy "pigweed seeds" to grow crops for my chickens to forage on....

You could visit me and have some starter plants free.

My chickens LOVE when I'm weeding the orchard.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Long drive for weeds... If I come, it will be for the company, but I've family I haven't seen in years that I need to see first.

 

[Sally PB]

What my mom called "pigweed" is what I (and google) call lambsquarters. It's the first crop I get out of my garden. I love that stuff. Pigweed (amaranth) is another "weed" I don't try to eradicate. The leaves are good when they're small. They get tough as they get bigger. Both self-seed quite well here.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

What my mom called "pigweed" is what I (and google) call lambsquarters. It's the first crop I get out of my garden. I love that stuff. Pigweed (amaranth) is another "weed" I don't try to eradicate. The leaves are good when they're small. They get tough as they get bigger. Both self-seed quite well here.

I boil the big leaves like spinach, season, and melt cheese on them. Yummy.

 

[Sally PB]

I eat both of these raw. They usually don't even make it into the house. Yeah, I eat green beans off the vine too. My feeling about the color green is that it should be spendable or edible.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

So, it appears that my birds can successfully hunt down fresh seed 400 foot from the coop, deposited at night, after they have been fed, down the hill, and out of their view...

So, I'll be overfeeding them for the next week or so to reduce their desires to free range until at least some of the seed I've bought has a chance to sprout... Putting up $Hundred$ in temporary fencing to protect $60 in seed just doesn't seem practical.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

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