Harvesting Lambsquarter Seeds
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2010
- therawfoodmuscle.com/ Take advantage of the free wild edibles in your area. Not only can you eat all these types of weeds but you can harvest the seeds so you can go more for next year. Mother Nature provides so much for us. All we need to do is be aware of whats around us. If you enjoy our videos please like, subscribe, share or you can donate on the link below. Thank you for all your support. Much Love
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Wow! I always pulled this up and through it in the garbage as weeds. This year I will respect it and harvest it as food. Thanks for your video.
I should also add that seed can be harvested and eaten like any grain. Just like Quinoa it must be throughly washed if harvesting from raw. The stuff at the health food store has had the bitter coating washed off, if you mix it with a curry or something you will not notice a flavor difference. Even sweet it sort of adds a nice sour sweet flavor. Hazelnut Lemon biscuits comes to mind. It can also be pounded into flour. So anything to do with Quinoa can easily be done with LQers
Or dry and grind the leaves and make them into 'green bread'.
In health food stores, it's called amaranth and imported from south america for some reason, when it's north american cousin can be found growing in every ditch. It has the name the British gave it. Lamb squarters.
Prep is easy, 1 cup of "grain" to three cups of water in a sauce pan (not a pot), boil for 15 minutes. Sub broth for water, soaks up any flavor. Tastes nutty otherwise, good with honey or maple for breakie
Amaranth here in the States is a different plant called Pigweed.
Amaranth and lambs quarters are two different plants.
Thank you for this information. Just what i needed to know.
huge lambsquarters thrive in my backyard, i welcome them : )
Good video, thanks man.
LOL! You know one of your neighbors is cursing your yard every time he see's "those" random weeds in your yard. Especially the "mother" of all Lambs quarters!
Lol!! That and my dandilions!
there is no need to save seed to plant again! :) but i was looking for how to harvest and eat them! Some one in the comment section did mention it (amaranth....) Thanks!!! I keep the plants around for bird seed in the fall, this year i want to try them myself.
hang them upside down - i use clothes pins on a hanger-and let them hang into a paper bag;once they are dry and ripe they should fall into the bag, thinking....
I had a lamb's quarters plant that got about that big this summer. I was wondering if it maybe crossed with my quinoa! Anyway, you go to a lot of trouble to harvest the seeds. I just hacked off the whole plant, hung it upside down next to my woodstove, then cut the smaller branches off, scraped off the dry seeds and chaff. Then pour the seeds into a bucket, over and over, with a slight breeze to separate the chaff. :D
How do you know when the seeds are ready, as in nature they dry, freeze and then grow the next spring.
I just read the seeds can be ground up and used to make bread and lots of other things. The recipes for lambsquarter are numerous.
That sounds interesting, I'm going to look into that. Thanks
Yeah, I also read that the Indian cook the seeds like grain and add them to their Daal fitnesspell.com/bathua-chenopodium-album/
In old times. Lambs quarters was a indicator plant. Saying that the soil is great for planting and growing.
Just found you, checking your vids out and you haven't been on in a year. Hope you come back real soon; you have a lot of great tips - loving so far. Hope all is well.
dont we wait til they turn brown to harvest?
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How do you know if they were ready to collect the seeds.
Lambs quarters: Are the seeds that form early, already viable. So if chopped and dropped the the "green" seeds would still germinate.... OR do the seeds have to reach a certain stage on the plant before they are viable to germinate? (asking both for eradication and for propagation i have too much of this plant in some areas)
Awesome man. Hey do you know the record for lambsquarter plants..I have one that is 8 feet 7 inches tall
The seed is edible, so im wondering if you could use it as quinoa, since its related to quinoa, it might have the same kinda structure? Any thoughts?
Ill try that tonight and see how it turns out
I saw someone do that in another video.
THAT is a lambsquarter!?!?! GEEZ! HUGE!!
Hello, thanks for posting. In what season do lambs quarters go to seed? Thanks
East coast August
The seeds aren’t even there yet… they haven’t even finished blooming…!!..
How do you know when the seeds are ready to be harvested...so that they grow new plants?
mad dog Hello! I believe n following mother nature’s example. Put ur hand under one of the seed heads and shake or tap it, if seeds fall n to ur hand, their ready to harvest, shake them n to a brown paper bag. If u look n to his bowl you’ll see no seeds, he’s harvesting immature seed heads. Nature knows best on when to do what they do. Hope this helped
@@joybickerstaff194 I was thinking the same thing.. The plant will begin to dry the seed pods out when the right time comes.. I imagine harvest time is in the fall.. and not late summer.
@@ChristopherJones16 Yes. Just give a shake and they fall. Ready to harvest seed.
The seed is equivalent to quinoa, but the leaves are equivalent to spinach. Don't waste the leaves! Dry, powder, yum!
you dry, and crush the leaves into a powder? What do you sprinkle the powder on? What does it taste like? Wouldnt you rather eat em fresh?
@@ChristopherJones16 you can eat them fresh, like spinach. They taste like spinach. The powder can be used in all kinds of stuff.... Smoothies, flour sub in flat bread [or even a yeast bread]. Those spinach tortillas you see around? Bingo! And the seeds can be ground into flour to use with that powder.... Oh yeah...
Cyndi Burkhart I wasn’t sure if one could but that’s why I mentioned it. I’m going to start subbing it for lettuce on my sandwiches. I want to put it in basil pesto and even chop it up to add to salsa and artichoke dip. :)
@@ChristopherJones16 start small, see if it works for you. That way you'll know. But, since you have no issues with the seed, go for it. I always, always, do a test bit to see if any issues spring up. Btw, the wild amaranth is good too. We have mostly the spiny stuff out here in South Central Kansas.
I myself just strip the seeds off and dry on a tarp .
thats food, very tasty delicious food, please do not call it weed.
How do you eat it?
@@therespectedlex9794 If the stems are tough, or thin and woody, you have to pull the leaves and seed tops off separately. But if the stems are fat and juicy, you can just use the whole plant. It's pretty much up to your imagination then, what you want to do with your harvest, but here's a preparation I enjoy:
1. Wash everything well. Watch for aphids.
2. If you have whole, fat-stemmed plants, chop them up -- stems, leaves, and seed tops all together. Otherwise, your harvested leaves and seed tops are already ready to go.
3. Place the chopped lambie-q's in a microwave-safe cooking pot, sprinkle A LITTLE water on them, and then microwave until the leaves are a deep emerald green. It doesn't take long.
4. Dress the hot greens with a small bit of butter, margarine, or a buttery-flavored olive oil. There should be no excess oil pooling around -- just dress the greens thoroughly.
5. Finish off with generous dashes of your favorite hot sauce (not salsa) -- I usually have Tabasco or Tapatío handy.
@@merriemisfit8406 Inspired! A high protein veggy too I think.
Ain't no such thing as "weeds", it all got a purpose ... now, golf course greens / manicured lawns? Abominable.
@@therespectedlex9794 Pluck a leaf or three and put on your sandwich 'stead of lettuce. Pluck more leaves, put 'em in a bowl, add dressing, or not, salad.
Put 'em in soups, eat 'em straight off the plant snack like.
Green Dean has a series on wild edibles and preparation techniques.
I need some seeds.
send me some seeds :) you should have a contest or something :)
Paper bag instead of plastic.
yes! i lost a couple plant ziploc bags full because the plants werent fully dry.😢 now i use paper bags and glass jars with airtight lids.
you are working too hard. If you are going to save it then do not put in ziplock bag the moisture would mold. Put it in paper container or bag to dry. If you are eating the seed then its ok to put it in plastic bag
Are these seeds popable like Amaranth? How do you usually eat them? Do you grind them up into a flour or microgreens?