Lambsquarters, Heirloom Seeds

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Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album), a common roadside and field plant, is easy on the eyes and useful to boot. A member of the expansive amaranth family, which also includes beets, chard, quinoa, and spinach, lambsquarters can be identified by the telltale dusty white coating on new growth and the undersides of leaves. It’s a favorite among foragers, who mostly gather it for the leaves, which taste like a mild version of spinach. Lambsquarters is highly nutritious and surprisingly tasty for something many consider a weed. Related to spinach, it can be eaten in much the same way – raw when young and tender, and cooked as the leaves mature – cooking is recommended as with spinach and chard due to oxalic acid content. High in iron, protein, calcium, and vitamins A and B1. Easy to grow and will self-seed year after year. 50 days. Light green leaves have a magenta color in the leaf centers. Excellent in a salad when young, or lightly cooked as a potherb, stir-fry green, or any way spinach is used. More heat-tolerant than spinach in heat. It can go feral in the garden if the seed is left to shatter. Some gardeners love this as it lends a self-perpetuating element to the annual garden. Chenopodium giganteum. Thirty days, baby, 60 days full.

Pkt Size/Approx, Seeds
0.4 mg / 200+ Seeds

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