Stellaria media, aka common Chickweed...is edible...:D

[flowerchild59]

It is very bland but has a crunch. It reminds me of nothing else. I always gather greens from my yard. We don't spray or fertilize anything other than what nature and the girls provides. One of my favorites is also purslane. Here is a link for some recipes.

http://www.prodigalgardens.info/chickweed recipes.htm

 

[oldchickenlady]

This is a bit off topic, but here in the south, it wont be long before poke sallet will be coming up. Already is up in the lower parts of the south. Not good for chickens, but for people....very good! My grandmother called it a spring tonic to flush out toxins and 'stuff' from your body after the winter. I found some in middle Arkansas that was just about 3 inches high last Thursday, so I am hoping by this week we may have some up tall enough to pick here in middle TN. I have to put some in the freezer for my mom. I just know my brother and sister-in-law are not going to pick and fix her any. I don't think they know what it looks like...It is only edible in the early spring when the shoots are young, after that it tastes too strong. Can't wait to go look tomorrow on my day off. Poke sallet and hot buttered cornbread. Yum!

 

[flowerchild59]

I just posted some links on the recipe section that is full of spring greens goodness.

 

[flowerchild59]

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Love poke greens too. My chickens always go for their greens when they bolt out of their pen.

 

[EweSheep]

Is chickweed called creepy charlie weed?

My chickens LOVE that stuff.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

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Too Too funny because as I was walking around the yard yesterday after work I was looking at all the places where the Poke Salad comes up and saying to myself...it's not long now. I love love love it...last year I went to a friends house that had lots of it, I picked it and took it home and cooked it and took him some later....now this year he is looking forward to it coming in. Next time I'll keep my mouth shut. lol

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

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Wow..Thanks so much. I will have to try these....

 

[oldchickenlady]

D'Angelo N Va. :

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Too Too funny because as I was walking around the yard yesterday after work I was looking at all the places where the Poke Salad comes up and saying to myself...it's not long now. I love love love it...last year I went to a friends house that had lots of it, I picked it and took it home and cooked it and took him some later....now this year he is looking forward to it coming in. Next time I'll keep my mouth shut. lol

Yeah, you have to be careful who you tell! First ask if they eat turnip or collard greens! If they don't eat them, they probably wont eat poke. Seems like every time I find a great big nice patch of it, somebody comes along with a tractor and cleans it up, or burns it or something...really irks me. Last year I was driving down the road (in Louisiana visiting in-laws) and passed a place where a lot of timber had been cut. There was just masses of poke at just the right size for picking! I nearly had a cow! I didn't have a single thing to put any in, so I went to my in-laws and got leftover Walmart sacks and went back and picked a pile of it! Hauled it all the way back here to TN in an ice chest and man was it good!​