Gotta check out the plants
Jun. 15th, 2015 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrThe other day, Fay noticed a post that mentioned a plant we'd seen in our garden plot. And pulled as a weed.
https://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/p/placom43.html
http://wellnessmama.com/4638/plantain-herb-profile/
Turns out that plantain (no relation to the banana-like fruit of the same name) is a useful herb and an edible plant.
I went ouyt and did some gardening tyhis morning and mentioned it to Marty. After looking it over, I found a couple in a section of her plot she hadn't gotten around to weeding yet.
She let me have them and will keep an eye out for more.
I'm gonna try some in a salad tonight. Since Fay will bee over, she can try some too.
And I''ll have to get back to Marty, because she may want some for the herbal properties, from what she was saying.
Folks, it really dooes pay to check out the plants growing in your garden *before* you pull them as weeds.
I've been grabbing dandelion greens since last year, but now I'll be adding plantain to my "list".
Also, unlike dandelion, they are rooted fairly shallow, so I'll be able to transplant them to their own corner of the plot.
https://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/p/placom43.html
http://wellnessmama.com/4638/plantain-herb-profile/
Turns out that plantain (no relation to the banana-like fruit of the same name) is a useful herb and an edible plant.
I went ouyt and did some gardening tyhis morning and mentioned it to Marty. After looking it over, I found a couple in a section of her plot she hadn't gotten around to weeding yet.
She let me have them and will keep an eye out for more.
I'm gonna try some in a salad tonight. Since Fay will bee over, she can try some too.
And I''ll have to get back to Marty, because she may want some for the herbal properties, from what she was saying.
Folks, it really dooes pay to check out the plants growing in your garden *before* you pull them as weeds.
I've been grabbing dandelion greens since last year, but now I'll be adding plantain to my "list".
Also, unlike dandelion, they are rooted fairly shallow, so I'll be able to transplant them to their own corner of the plot.
