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The listing, Organic Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album) - Never bitter better with butter - 200+ Seeds (Lot 56) has ended.

Seed Nov 2011 . 6-9' high
Use like spinach but easier to grow
As hi in minerals as spinach, lettuce, cabbage
Good source micronutrients

Wild Blessings http://wildblessings.com/2011/06/01/lambsquarter-chenopodium -album/
2nd highest wild food nutrition. Amaranth #1
Use as spinach , salad, stir fry, soup, casserole. Grind seed to dark flour - make gruel/bread
Leaves dry well, can reconstitute. Powder to make flour, mix w/ bit of water for tortilla
NUTRITION / 1/2 cup
SEED
Protein 19.6 gm
Fat 4.2 gm
Carb 57.7 gm
Fiber 27.1 gm
Calcium 1036 mg
Potassium 1687 mg
Niacin 3800 ug
Iron 64 mg
SHOOTS/LEAF
Protein 3.5 gm
Carb 5.5 gm
Calcium 324 mg
Potassium 684 mg
Beta Carotene 3800 ug
Niacin 1000 ug
Iron 1.5 mg
HEALTH BENEFITS
All parts - poultice for swelling, rheumatism, arthritis
Toothache - Chew raw
Gelatin cap w/ Lambsquarter a potent vitamin

--Grow throughout the US. Seedlings show mid/late spring usually before last frost. Some germinate into summer. 10-30% germinate this season. Most w/ varying dormancy. Rest germinate next season & next, etc. Some viable for decades

- -Plant produces 30,000 -750,000+ seeds. Let one go to seed, next season you'll be harvesting 'em like miccrogreens or pulling 'em as weeds

CARE
- -Easy to grow. Self sow readily
- -When soil is no longer frozen prepare your seed bed. Germination increases w/ light, strong day & night temp fluctuation, & nitrogen so mix in compost, high nitrogen fertilizer or generous amount of coffee grounds (contain 2% nitrogen)
- -Seeds are tiny so to make it easier to broadcast evenly mix 'em with inert material (sand, vermiculite, sawdust, peat moss) slightly damp so seeds will stick (about 1/2 quart for each 10 sq. ft.) & broadcast.over area
- -Best germination occurs on top of soil or at depth no greater than 1/10 inch so rake lightly or not at all. Transplant with almost no setback
- -Once established they survive with no more watering unless there's drought

Questions & Comments

. . . . . . . . . . HARVESTING

. . . Leaves, stems, flower buds & seeds are all edible. Stems get tougher after the plant is about 2' high so from that point on you'll probably want to harvest only leaves & flower buds. Seeds need to be ground to be digestible & can be used as a dark flour.

. . . Keep the flower buds pulled unless you want seeds earlier in the season but make sure you let at least one plant go to seed for next years crop. You don't even have to save them because they'll self sow & you'll have beaucoup volunteers next year.

Mar 22nd, 2012 at 6:40:36 PM PDT by

. . . . . . . . . . TESTIMONIAL

. . . I won some of these seeds from you a while back. they had a great sprouting return and now just transplanted into garden. can't wait to try lambs quarter for the first time! I've tried growing spinach with no luck. this was so easy to grow!
. . . Mar 10th, 2012 at 7:53:51 PM EST by dspann

Mar 22nd, 2012 at 6:41:20 PM PDT by

. . . . . . . . . . BREAKING NEWS
- - - - The possessive apostrophe in "Lamb's quarters" has been removed in this & all future listings of the seeds. Why?
- - - -People unknown, claiming to be variously, representatives of rock groups named lamb, lawyers for Gwen Stefani's product line & the executor of the estate of Mary's Little Lamb (that it's deceased must be true - no little lamb could live that long) are demanding a percentage of the credits as royalties. They say the quarters belong to them.

Mar 22nd, 2012 at 6:41:52 PM PDT by

Hi Dodger,

. . . Welcome to my auction & thanks for your bid.

. . . Fanned you. Take that!

. . . Good luck & a Happy, Healthy & Prosperous Year to you & yours

Mar 26th, 2012 at 1:16:40 PM PDT by

those grow wild here they are weeds in indiana !!!! i didnt know that you could eat them!!! thats interesting...

Mar 26th, 2012 at 10:35:40 PM PDT by

. . . Yes, they grow wild all over now & most people consider them weeds. They were originally brought from Europe by the settlers intentionally & were a staple in their diet.

. . . Thanks for the fan. Fanned you back. Take that!

. . . Welcome to Listia. It's a great community of mostly nice & quite helpful people

. . . I see you're wasting no time at all listing auctions. Well done. Took me a month to list my first.

. . . Good luck & a Happy, Healthy & Prosperous Year to you & yours.

Mar 27th, 2012 at 2:32:51 PM PDT by

do you have any spicebush seedlings? lindera benzoine

Mar 26th, 2012 at 10:36:52 PM PDT by

. . . Sorry, no.

Mar 27th, 2012 at 2:34:16 PM PDT by

. . . Sorry, no.

Mar 27th, 2012 at 2:33:52 PM PDT by

. . . Hey, Joe, stop repeating myself.

Mar 27th, 2012 at 2:35:33 PM PDT by

just curious...are you joesbugs because of butterflies? Because I breed them on a very small scale as a hobby when I can.

Mar 28th, 2012 at 4:16:09 PM PDT by

. . . That's ultimate cool.

. . . I have been an amateur entomologist since the age of 6. Over the years, at various times I have raised butterflies, moths, fruit flies, blue bottle flies, house flies, meal worms, preying mantises & black widow spiders.

. . . Right now I'm pretty thoroughly involved in 2 community gardens, raising red worms for the castings (free fertilizer) & growing as much of my own organic food as possible, so I've been neglecting the insects except for handling the ones that think I'm growing the food for them.

Mar 29th, 2012 at 8:39:36 AM PDT by

Dodger,

. . . Thanks for the fan.

Mar 29th, 2012 at 8:43:51 AM PDT by

Hi Cowboy,

. . . Welcome to my auction & thanks for your bid.

. . . And welcome to Listia. It's a great community of mostly nice & quite helpful people.

. . . I see you wasted no time listing auctions. Well done. Took me a month to list my first.

. . . And thanks for the fan. Fanned you back. Take that!

. . . Good luck & a Happy, Healthy & Prosperous Year to you & yours.

Mar 31st, 2012 at 5:02:13 AM PDT by

Hi Andrea,

. . . Welcome back & thanks for your bid.

Mar 31st, 2012 at 5:43:58 PM PDT by

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