purslane rocks!
hh, have you considered growing salsola soda? IMO the best tasting green ever.
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purslane rocks!
hh, have you considered growing salsola soda? IMO the best tasting green ever.
I'd have to check out the invasiveness of salsola soda. The purslane is somewhat invasiveness but is easily controlled. It's gotta play nice with the other kids and can't be something the birds poop out in a nearby spring.
Can anyone identify this plant.
It has long pods that hook on your feet when dry. It can be eaten raw or like okra. I was pulling it, mistaking it for jimson weed until I learned it was edible. So is the jimson weed, I guess, but...not for me anyway. It inhibits other growth around it so it gets pulled and tossed.
It's just the name of the hook pod plant that escapes me.
Can anyone identify this plant.
It's just the name of the hook pod plant that escapes me.
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I thought I was the only one to do this.
I just moved here to the dessert and the wind here has blown all the top soil away. So I've started to rebuild it. Have put up a sign asking for lawn clipping and all animal poo. It's only been up for a week and so far I have a horse stable bringing me the stall cleanings.
Hey hh go to your local bait shop and get you some red wigglers. Thats whats in my mulch bin and their getting fat and even seen eggs.
I just moved here to the dessert and the wind here has blown all the top soil away. So I've started to rebuild it. Have put up a sign asking for lawn clipping and all animal poo. It's only been up for a week and so far I have a horse stable bringing me the stall cleanings.
Hey hh go to your local bait shop and get you some red wigglers. Thats whats in my mulch bin and their getting fat and even seen eggs.
purslane doesn't seem to hurt anything, and it's already all over North America.
Hopefully worms will come with the horse compost. I have a friend with some very small, around 1", worms that work well for him. I can get those free. Bait shops are pretty scarce in the close area. I've seen red wigglers for around $20 a pound on the internet, mailed with certain precautions. They also have so called " super reds" for twice the price. I'm thinking of seeding with all three, then picking one or two for a bin.
De wormer in horse poop is a concern. I have never had a problem. Perhaps, I'm simply lucky. I also have a concern with grass clippings where weed and feed type products and artificial fertilizers have been used. More so than with the manure. Even the recycled mulch brings who knows what. I prefer to bring it in pre composted where the microbes have already had a chance to overwhelm anything bad, otherwise I use it sparingly or let it sit a few months. I have yet to collect grass locally. I want to check with the gardeners first to see who uses what.
De wormer in horse poop is a concern. I have never had a problem. Perhaps, I'm simply lucky. I also have a concern with grass clippings where weed and feed type products and artificial fertilizers have been used. More so than with the manure. Even the recycled mulch brings who knows what. I prefer to bring it in pre composted where the microbes have already had a chance to overwhelm anything bad, otherwise I use it sparingly or let it sit a few months. I have yet to collect grass locally. I want to check with the gardeners first to see who uses what.
That's why I let it go. I just don't know much about the soda plant.
My dad was a soil scientist and was responsible for planting a lot of tamarisk trees as windbreaks. Now you see it in just about every local spring and can choke out other species and dry up the spring as well.
Mustard grass seed was used by the Spanish as a way of marking trail. My dad used to claim all the wild mustard growing came from his garden. I think he was pushing that one a bit.
I don't have Joshua trees anymore, nor yucca. Still have access. An interesting note was when the local Indians settled and incorporated the fruit of the Joshua, their children grew to be larger, supposedly due to the steroidal saponins.
Thinking my "useless" large zucchini can be buried to self ferment and then water extract all the goodies in a few months. Having a hard rind and a soft center is idea for containment of the fermentation.
salsola soda is a marsh plant. its natural habitat is salty but apparently it can be grown inland.
it is invasive in some places I think.
it is invasive in some places I think.
