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Lambs Quarter Weed

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Weed of the Month. It may be depending on where you live. Lamb S Quarters Chestnut School Of Herbal Medicine Lambs quarters is an annual plant that looks dusty from a distance. Lambs quarter weed . Serendipity helped me find Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons in the used book pile. Lambsquarters reach 3 to 4 feet tall if allowed to grow in an open field but grow only a few inches tall in lawns. I quickly gave the librarian a dollar for this wild food foraging classic from the. Lambsquarter Chenopodium album is a very common weed that is actually so tasty and nutrient-rich that shrewd gardeners are going out of their way to cultivate it. Because lambsquarters emerges early it is one of the weeds that must be watched so is does not exceed the maximum height for postemergence weed control. Also known as pigweed wild spinach or goosefoot lambsquarters plants are highly nutritious providing a fair amount of a number of vitamins and minerals including iron folate magne...