The Weed Every Garden Should Have! Plant Profile: Chickweed
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- All about chickweed and how it's used as a valuable garden annual. Chickweed is great for people and animals like pigs, chickens, ducks, rabbits & more. It is a great edible and medicinal herb and is easy to grow! Learn how to identify, use and work with the chickweed growing in your garden or flower beds. It loves moist, rich soil and is probably growing somewhere near you! We practically never water this garden!
More Identification tips on our resources page under "common yard plants of the southeast": everwilderfarm...
I had some come up around my scarlet runners last summer. I thought it actually looked really whimsical and pretty, so against everyone’s advice I left it. I had the LARGEST harvest of scarlet runners EVER. Trust nature, she knows what’s up.
I didn’t know you could eat it or use it to make a salve?! How can anybody starve, nature provides so much food for us if you’re wise enough to know it.
I had someone tell me years ago.. whatever medicinal plants aka "weeds" you have abundance of in your yard... The Good Lord provided them specifically for your personalized health care. ❤
"They" call them weeds bc BigFarma can't profit. So they tell people to use chems to rid weeds and profit meds.
He even shapes water exactly to the shape of puddles!
Shellbelis..Yes I believe that. I'm glad someone else sees that too. Mullein grew a few years ago in an area I don't notice very often . I didn't realize it was medicine only thought of it as a beautiful weed. A year later I developed asthma and wanted to treat naturally found out about mullein and said God you tried to tell me about that before I even knew I was going to need it. It's definitely been a blessing to me and I've learned so much about herbs and wild edibles and so excited to keep learning and consuming these wonderful gifts from God . Keep listening and learning😊❤
I’ve eaten chickweed in a salad, I live in England. It’s a common ‘weed’ here. Lots of people don’t know that it’s edible and as good for you as any other salad herb. Also poultry love it!
Thanks l have fought this in my yard not knowing what a blessing it could be. Now l know,WOW,
We have lots of chickweed. All of our animals love it, I've made a pesto with it and cook with it too. I'll have to try it as a tea.
Me too.! Here in New Zealand...Found it in my garden recentely..
I have identified 14 edible weeds in my yard. Yes chickweed.
Love drinking my chickweed infusions in the summer to cool me down.
I have yet to find chickweed, and have come across two plants that others have called chickweed. Thank you for clearing confusion and sharing knowledge about this plant.
Omg I have been ripping it up 😂
me too : [
I’ll keep ripping it out. It chokes out all of my other plants.
I have chickweed everywhere and funny enough, my chickens love it. It’s a great cover crop. I’ve never used it for us but will definitely try!
I use Chickweed & Creeping Charlie as cover crop.
During winter and all the seasons?
This is a cool weather or cold weather weed. Come summer hot time. It dies out or becomes dormant. The seeds it leaves is amazingly a lot. Good for live stock. I give it to my Chickens and Guineas. Eating it? Well perhaps.
Cutworms love chickweed and I find lots there to give my geckos to eat.
Awesome closing-fun!
Would love to have recipes using chickweed, like how to make a salve, etc.
Whoah I think I have chickweed in my yard lol ❤
I planted some baby's breathe and alyssum seeds and with this plant growing I can not tell the difference.
Do you know what the other weed in the middle of the chickweeds is - the one with five or six wide flat leaf lobes?
Carolina cranesbill or a different one?
I have that same plant everywhere here. I have a ton of strange weeds and don`t know what they are. I`ve been trying to learn. Pill bugs devour a lot of things I attempt to get started wild.
Can't remember the name, but it grew under the huge trees in my last backyard. My arborist told me it was a native, and wouldn't harm anything. Maybe send a photo to one of the plant identifying sites to get the name. I was glad to hear it is a good plant that belonged where it was. Also thought it was pretty!
Please slow down with the camera shots...😊
I watched on 1.25 speed as couldnt stand that slow explanation and motion.)
Please also show still shots for id
I keep pulling them out. 😂😂😂😂
Looks like what I have growing in my backyard. It looks pretty but after blooming it gets sharp points when dried. Use gloves!
Aloha hugs 🤗 got seeds for me?
Where do you acquire seeds for this?
Strictly medicinal seeds has it online I believe.
19 bucks on the "A" site. Well, if it`s not already here it won`t be. I`m scared to use other sites because I don`t want to get hacked again.
My budgies like to eat it
do you know how to save the seed from chickweed?
My shoes are good at this if you walk through a chickweed patch after flowering, they are brown seeds. They can be collected and stored like most seeds.
I believe you can wash the chickweed in a bowl and save the seeds on the bottom of the bowl.
😌 *Promo sm*
I love it for chicken feed in the late winter to late spring.
The chickens turn it into soil for the next year's crop of "weeds" & veg. 😎