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The listing, Howdy - I'm Back - No Applause Necessary - Organic Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album) - 200+ Seeds has ended.

Seed Nov 2011 6-9 ft
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 US. Wild seedlings show mid/late spring usually before last frost. Some germinate into summer.

--Germination increases w/ light, strong day & night temp fluctuation, & nitrogen. Mix compost, high nitrogen fertilizer or a generous amount of coffee grounds (contain 2% nitrogen) into bed.

--Mix the seeds with an inert material (sand, vermiculite, sawdust, peat moss) slightly damp so the seeds will stick (about 1/2 quart for each 10 sq. ft.) & broadcast over the area. Best germination occurs on top of the soil or at a depth no greater than 1/10 inch. Rake very lightly or not at all. Water in.

--3% are brown & germinate easily. Most black w/ varying dormancy. Some viable for decades. 10-30% germinate this season. That's why 200+ seeds. Rest germinate next season & next, etc. Transplant easily w/ almost no setback.

--One plant produces 30,000 -750,000+ seeds. If you let one go to seed in place, the next season you'll be harvesting 'em like miccrogreens or pulling 'em as weeds.

Questions & Comments

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.

Feb 25th, 2012 at 6:27:44 PM PST by

Hi Becky,

. . . Welcome back & thanks for the bid. Good luck.

Feb 26th, 2012 at 1:39:23 AM PST by

It says to put coffee grounds in the soil mix. Is that new or used grounds, cause I'm a little stingy with my coffee.

Feb 26th, 2012 at 9:27:18 AM PST by

. . . As well you should be.
. . . That's definitely used coffee grounds. In fact I collect 'em from my local coffee shop to use in my garden. I mix "em in the soil, in the compost pile, in my red worm pit & bins (the worms love 'em) & as a light mulch on top of the soil (no more than 1" or they're liable to mold or putrefy).
. . . In fact Starbucks has a corporate policy of making their grounds available to gardeners for free. They'll save 'em for you in large plastic trash bags.
. . . When you get them from some coffee shops they'll have the filters & other minor trash mixed in (papers from sweetener packets, an occasional straw). I sift 'em through a 1/2" or 1/4" screen, add the filters to the compost & throw out the colored papers & straws.

Feb 26th, 2012 at 10:36:02 AM PST by

Hi Aimee,

. . . Welcome back & thanks for the bid. I'm gonna have to find out if there's a way to give you a commission for kicking the bids up on all my auctions. :)

Feb 26th, 2012 at 6:01:22 PM PST by

hahaha yr funny,im good at doing that..well ill win an auction here sometime,and i have fun doing it to!!!i wont have to worry about these taking over cause i have ravenous rabbits,in cages of course!!and maybe chicken i dont know,but on the other hand i planted tomatoes by the pen and all the leaves they could reach they stripped..i plant a mini garden by the chiky pen for the rabbits and chikys they love toms.cukes corn...stuff like that,and it all does good over there from all the nitrogen

Feb 28th, 2012 at 1:29:24 PM PST by

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