a good start Harry ! Mullein does good in my good for nothing soil. I also got portulacca, which is quite good to eat and has nice pink flowers on top, and 3 kinds of goosefoot, the amaranth kind doing best. I have had the worst time to kill the burning nettles someone accidentally gave me LOL. Some herbals do fine too, rosemary bein…
a good start Harry ! Mullein does good in my good for nothing soil. I also got portulacca, which is quite good to eat and has nice pink flowers on top, and 3 kinds of goosefoot, the amaranth kind doing best. I have had the worst time to kill the burning nettles someone accidentally gave me LOL. Some herbals do fine too, rosemary being the best, oregano doing, and mint hanging in there. Oxalis and millefoil and several clovers one year great next year almost nothing. I just let everything be ! And behind us is a large piece of empty land with wild plums and blackberries ! As you state, not near enough, but everything helps !
Not heard of portulacca before, so I'll try and get some.
I wonder if the burning nettles are edible like their relative, the stinging nettle.
It's meant to be a very good crop to grow, as it is packed with vitamins, grows easily and can be cut multiple times throughout the year.
The stems are good for cordage, while the leaves can be made into soup or bread and the seeds are energy and mood lifters.
I never used to be at all interested in plants before this orchestrated "event", but the evil bastards have made me realise that I don't really need a difficult life in "society" and just how rich and abundant nature can be, if idiots and profiteers are kept away from it.
portulaca seems to be another variety of purslane, or moss rose. I looked it up they had a yellow flowering variety and mine is bright pink. The leaves of the wild ones are broader and more fleshy, mine are thinner.
The worst thing is, that farmers don't know either. Shortly after I moved here I read how farmers destroy the edible goosefoot that grows here abundantly with pesticides to grow cotton which needs lots of pesticides as well. If they harvest young goosefoot, to eat raw, then the older to eat as spinach, then the seeds to ground up for meal, they would have 3 harvests from one plant they need not buy and need not fertilize or spray with poison !
a good start Harry ! Mullein does good in my good for nothing soil. I also got portulacca, which is quite good to eat and has nice pink flowers on top, and 3 kinds of goosefoot, the amaranth kind doing best. I have had the worst time to kill the burning nettles someone accidentally gave me LOL. Some herbals do fine too, rosemary being the best, oregano doing, and mint hanging in there. Oxalis and millefoil and several clovers one year great next year almost nothing. I just let everything be ! And behind us is a large piece of empty land with wild plums and blackberries ! As you state, not near enough, but everything helps !
Oh and apparently the nettle stings are an age old treatment for arthritis, rheumatism and other joint ailments.
Not heard of portulacca before, so I'll try and get some.
I wonder if the burning nettles are edible like their relative, the stinging nettle.
It's meant to be a very good crop to grow, as it is packed with vitamins, grows easily and can be cut multiple times throughout the year.
The stems are good for cordage, while the leaves can be made into soup or bread and the seeds are energy and mood lifters.
I never used to be at all interested in plants before this orchestrated "event", but the evil bastards have made me realise that I don't really need a difficult life in "society" and just how rich and abundant nature can be, if idiots and profiteers are kept away from it.
portulaca seems to be another variety of purslane, or moss rose. I looked it up they had a yellow flowering variety and mine is bright pink. The leaves of the wild ones are broader and more fleshy, mine are thinner.
The worst thing is, that farmers don't know either. Shortly after I moved here I read how farmers destroy the edible goosefoot that grows here abundantly with pesticides to grow cotton which needs lots of pesticides as well. If they harvest young goosefoot, to eat raw, then the older to eat as spinach, then the seeds to ground up for meal, they would have 3 harvests from one plant they need not buy and need not fertilize or spray with poison !