Eat The Weeds: Episode 91: Purslane

[MarshmallowVogt]

In Mexico they call this verdolagas

[EatTheWeeds]

@MarshmallowVogt On my website I think I mention that.

[soulflower1970]

RE: the story at 5:04 -- "I'm not gonna eat no damn weed." So sad that, as you say, some folks would almost rather starve to death rather than eat a plant that wasn't intentionally raised. The system sure has got people trained not to think for themselves.. :(

[FacetsOfTruth]

Funny story! I just transplanted some Apple Trees that I grew from seeds, and while in the pots, there was this 'Weed' that kept sprouting up all around my 'precious' little trees. I must have pulled them 50 times or more and tossed them into the yard. I'll give you 3 guesses what I 'Just found out' they were? Arrrrrg! LOL Oh well. See what you've done? I'm smarted, having watched your video. I have been throwing away one of the most nutritious free blessings I could have. Thanks again. :-)

[CrypticCRICKET]

Not the purslain in this video but I love sea purslain. I've tried to grow it in containers away from the sea. It sort of works. Doesn't spread real fast so that's the problem with trying to cultivate sea purslain as an edible.

I think I'll try to cultivate this more highland type here in this video.

[qualqui]

Yikes, forget ya mentioned its great in salads,...at the end i was sayin',....'wait its raw',...lol...yeah don't eat purslane that grows on the sidewalks, ya never know if some dog or cat peed or poopooed on or near the purslane, better to grow it at home or better yet in the boondocks where everything's in sync with Mother Earth! = )

[jasmatk]

first off let me say great videos ive been watching a couple a day for awhile. puslane has been growing in my yard for years and i had no idea it was edible.Can you recomend any good books about wild edibles? I bought one good book with alot of info only problem is the pictures are black and white pencil drawings

[MeyerG4Indiana]

Great editing! ( keeps the info coming at brain speed ...... few others do.)

Great delivery and content. Thanks for sharing your gifts.

I must subscribe.

[TheNESRules]

I love your videos, I keep finding out these weeds that have been growing in the garden every year are actually quite good.

After doing more research on Purslane, I even found that its beneficial to other garden plants as its deep roots bring up water to them.

[ledburnerss]

Great video.

I just ate a bowl full of 40 2" to 3" tender Purslane tips chilled in the frig for 20 minutes and splashed with lemon juice. Yummy. It's only my 3rd year knowing how great it is to eat. Boy was I foolish. I got lucky this time, it was days since rain and it grew up this week nice and clean, free from any soil grit that rain splashes up. I will fertilize and water it and enjoy it July and August and September.

Enjoy some of my VIDEOS by clicking on my name. Have a healthy day :-)

[soupsoua]

I never knew that's what they were called. My family likes to fry it with chopped beef and pepper, add some salt and it taste amazing. :)

[AyumuHasegawa]

I have purslane growing around my huse and I love going outside in the morning to look at the flowers but they have redish purple flowers instead of yellow

[qualqui]

@AyumuHasegawa me thinks there are various kinds out there, here on the central plateau, the flowers are white with a pinkish tinge.

[gardenhacks]

Great information and close up of the plant!!

[turuanu]

Oh good to know, we have a ton of it here.

[mogges1]

So thats what has been growing in my flower beds.man I have had a time with this plant,pulling and digging this up and it keeps coming back.HA HA now I know what to do with it

[nagaempress]

I dont know if you can answer this or not but my house was treated for termites and i want t eat the weeds in my garden. I never spray other then that and my front lawn is LOADED with dandilions and i think purslane. I was told by a spray company that I cannot eat anything 5ft from my house because it will be contamintated. Does this survive in pots? Or do you think it would be safe to eat it from other places in the garden?

[EatTheWeeds]

@nagaempress If five feet is what they told you then I would listen. If they have to come back in a year then you also know when the chemical has degraded. Today's treatents don't last 10 or 20 years like they used to.

[Drtakeachance]

@nagaempress

...rooted into the ground up against the perimiter of the wall should be fine. Exterminators treat the area from the wall to about 6 inches outward...they have a 5 foot rule for your safety but once again potted plants are not treated with termiticide and it is a custom they move any potted plants away from the area treated while they treat then place them back where they were located. Chance are extremely high that your potted plants are and were safe from exposure.

[SunTzuLao]

I let it grow as groundcover in my garden, keeps other weeds to a minimum, grows on top of the mulch :)

[chavy816]

love the video and the series. At a home depot I found rock purslane (for sale, that is) and bought it figuring it was related and therefore edible. It looks a bit different, it has leaves that are full of some sort of fluid and the stem isn't red. it has purple flowers and doesn't taste like much. any idea if its actually edible?

[EatTheWeeds]

@chavy816 I've had people tell me they've eaten it but I've never found ti palatable. To me it is bitter and irritates my throat. I don't recommend it.

[karenl1234]

wow great videos and I live in Missouri which has abundance of healthy wild plants and mushrooms! I love this sharring of information I encourage everyone to quit growing lawns and let the natural plants reintroduce themselves to you its wonderful I have wild herbs, polk, greens and so much more and never use herbicides nor have to use lawnmower! thanks peace love joy n discovery

[abuelita23xxx]

Sir, i believe we have quite a large patch of purslane growing wild in our backyard. As we live in Eastern Iowa, we are coming on to the cold winter. Is there a way to keep this through the winter? Can it grow in a container inside our house? Can we freeze it? As we make lots of Mexican food, this may be a great "find". Thank you.

[EatTheWeeds]

@abuelita23xxx Sure, take it inside and put it in a sunny window. It's hardy and easy to grow.

[jimjamerman]

Hey dean, is there a field guide that you would recommend?

[EatTheWeeds]

@jimjamerman Where do you live, generally speaking?

[jimjamerman]

@EatTheWeeds I live in the Atlanta area

[EatTheWeeds]

@jimjamerman My first answer is no. Then I would recommend Edible Plants of North America by Elias and Dykeman (2008 edition or later, that's important.) Then with few drawings Edible Plants of the Gulf South by Charles Allen.

[TAMYCRON]

Is this supposed to be "slimey?" Because it kinda is unless I'm eating something that looks exactly like it but isn't (It's not portulaca).

[EatTheWeeds]

@TAMYCRON Yep, kinda like okra.

[RonRay]

Strange... You said this is highly nutritious; well as a child, I lived in depressive poverty and remember many times chewing on this plant. It had a slight salty, slightly sour taste, so you would think that a plant like that would be one of the last things someone would 'naturally' chew on, but I did- only now realizing why.

This is strange to me, because evidently, humans are similar to animals in that we will will eat things that are 'good' for us, even when it doesn't taste like an apple.

[ovandocarter]

say all the more food for me. people don't like to learn things. just keep putting vids on youtube for people how want to learn

[MrBlank5]

Mr. Deane, I greatly enjoy all your videos and thank you for the information they provide. On this particular video though, I was wondering as to how exactly a person would go about pickleing the purslane? Thank you kindly and I look forward to your next video.

[EatTheWeeds]

@MrBlank5 Thanks for writing. I think I have a recipe on my website for pickling purslane.

[rayme4raw]

I took a look at this video because I have commercial purslane growing in my garden, it tastes a lot like a cross between lettuce and celery to me. I just not ironically I have a lot of wild purslane growing between the cracks on my flagstone back porch so I tasted the wild purslane and the commercial purslane.  The taste is the same except the wild purslane is a little bit sweeter. thanks for the vid:)

[EatTheWeeds]

@rayme4raw I've seen it do that. Reaction to the light causes I, I suppose.

[liquidPalindrome]

Hi Deane. As I wrote to you I have a large amount of purslane on my property if I have identified it correctly. I noticed that in cool shade when the sun is setting, or particularly after a heavy rain, at night I see the purslane standing up. Many of the end stems, even on large plants, are standing straight up and the leaves are folded up and in forming these little, folded, funnel-like shapes. Is this common for purslane and if so do you know what causes this to happen?

[jimjamerman]

I don't have very good sunlight on my deck where I can grow things, do you know if purslane is shade tolerant?

[EatTheWeeds]

@jimjamerman It likes full sun.

[rayme4raw]

@jimjamerman I have a ton of purslane growing between the cracks in my flagstone porch, it only gets 6 hours of direct sunlight. it's doing very well.

[GrandmasSilverWater]

Thanks Dean

I have heard of this before but di not know exactly what it looked like.

Your video shows me that I have this growing in my potted veggies.

I use to "weed" them out but now let them grow and eat it, usually raw.

I am saving some in the pickle juice left over in pickle jars.

[prettymama279]

Awesome video! Thank you so much for sharing! I can't wait to go go find some! :-)

[skullylovesroland]

Thank you so much, i was on the verge of ordering cultivated purslane, and i have it in the yard!

[CanonIsaacs123]

Are there any weeds you can eat for pain. I recently hurt my back, any information would be helpful.

[Rahel]

Green Deane, thank you so much! Thanks to you, I identified some purslane today and intend to do with it exactly what you have done: transplant it, let it re-seed, and eat it!

[EatTheWeeds]

Sounds good... it will do well in the spring and fall, goes a bit wilty in the summer.

[cabinetmaniac]

I've been pulling this out of my garden for years.

Little did I know.

I'll let some mature now.

:-]

[sloshgator]

Green Deane says that he doesn't like commercially grown purslane. I've bought purslane from Lukas Nursery (Oviedo, FL) and I think it is very tasty in salads. (The worker thought I was joking (or crazy) when I told here I intended to eat it.) I mention it because maybe they have a unique, tasty variety. I will try the wild ones though -- maybe I don't know what I'm missing. It is just easier to buy the plants from Lukas' in the Spring.

[EatTheWeeds]

Thanks for writing... I have found wild purslane preferable to commercial strains. We would have to know what they are selling, a commercial cultivar or a wild one.

[johnu78]

I finally had been able to gather up enough Purslane to steam. I steamed a big pot of it a few days ago and it was great. It tastes a lot like spinach.

[karenrsmith]

Love your vids! When I was a child, my grandparents showed me many of the "weeds" you teach about. Thank you for jogging my memory bank, so I don't break the bank purchasing many of these edibles at the market. Which, I have been doing for years. Why? May be the explanation is that when "some" folks saw me picking "weeds" years ago, they said something like, why....you can't eat that, it is a weed...it might kill you. I knew I had eaten them before, but, I began to second guess. Duh! TYVM!

[puresickmermaid]

I love purslane! It's so yummy when sauteed and served with fish!

[EatTheWeeds]

Well... all cooking beans are grown as green beans but I not all all eaten like green beans. There is no problem with the peas you have eaten. Beans, even in some impoverished places of the world now, are considered famine food. Their edibility has been an issue since man started eating them. Personally I like eating a Blue Lake or a Purple Queen right from the garden, but other beans eaten that way can make you ill, not seriously so but a distraction nonetheless.

[DavidandJeannie6]

Very good to know. Thank you so much! I've just finished reading your moringa article. (No video, boo hoo.) I'm so glad you had one! I have 4 and 2 half trees (they won't die, but they aren't growing much) around my yard. My oldest is almost 2 years old. My tallest one is my youngest one, actually. It gets the most sun and the least attention. Have you tasted the seeds (kernels)? I can't believe they are considered edible! Yuck!

[EatTheWeeds]

I've been thinking about a video on them but I am waiting for one of my trees to fruit again. Then I can do one. As for taste... while it is a very nutritious tree I think the katuck is tastier.

[DavidandJeannie6]

I like the flavor of the leaves and the drumsticks, the very tiny ones, at least. I have only eaten the ones that fell off of my tree that is fruiting now. I live in North Houston. But I tried a seed, which I harvested for the first time this year, and it was so horrible I couldn't forget the flavor all day. I do want to try the katuk since I read your article on it, but I didn't find a place that sells seeds. Do you know of one?

[EatTheWeeds]

No, raw pinto beans and raw mung beans should be soaked in water for several hours and then at least cooked for a few minutes before eating. This destroys some of the toxins. Generally said beans are NOT a raw food item... garden green string beans are an exception.

[DavidandJeannie6]

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer me. I had heard that all of the cooking beans could be grown as green beans. Is that not true? Also, my neighbor grew zipper cream peas that I love to eat fresh when they are small (and green). Is that a no-no, then? They taste like fresh green peas. Are fresh green peas okay, or do I need to follow what you said for mung beans?

[DavidandJeannie6]

Do you have a website - or know of one - where I can ask questions? For instance, I just read on your blog that "View every mature legume or pea as toxic". I have been asking for a while about why we don't eat freshly shelled pinto beans, but must dry them only to rehydrate them. I suppose you mean it when you say "all". And I suppose the reason is that they are toxic until they are put through the drying/boiling process? Thank you for your blog and videos. I'm working through all of them!

[EatTheWeeds]

Thanks for writing.... on the garden web there are a lot of forums where one can ask questions, and here. Legumes range from toxic to edible from the garden. And some folks are allergic to even the edible ones. Legumes were not considered human food in the distant past. They are not well-represent in mesolithic middens. Cooking does not get rid of toxicity in that family. It is NOT a family to experiment with. Make sure it is edible or leave it alone.

[DavidandJeannie6]

Oh, thank you. So we could eat freshly shelled pinto beans, for instance? Mung beans? I grew mung beans from a package I picked up at the grocery store. That's what made me wonder.

[66scjohnston]

I appreciate Your Videos!

[formarjoram]

Purslane! I have fond memories of picking bunches of this stuff in our family farm in Egypt, and bringing it home for my mother to cook in the traditional manner. This video is so nostalgic for me, thank you for posting about this delicious little plant!

[earthawaken]

PIGWEED!! was a stable of Australian Aboriginals, the Seeds are very very small but very good for you.

[MachanicalChicken]

I love your videos. People dont realize that foraged greens are probably more nutritious than the groceries we buy. I have the stuff growing all over my yard and eat it on a regular basis

[steviebboy69]

i found something like this but its sap is white.

i tasted a small leaf and it was mild.

but it later caused a burning taste in my mouth.

it was not like a chili burn. i could still detect it a few hours later.

mabe this is some thing else?

[EatTheWeeds]

Probably a spruge. White sap is a huge warning sign to leave it alone. If I didn't mention it on my video I did on my site. There are some edible plants with white sap but very few.

[noweirdbeard]

Well dang.. It is kummerowia in my yard then. :(

I will just have to keep looking for the Purslane.

Thanks so much Deane!

[noweirdbeard]

I may be getting this plant confused with Kummerowia in my yard.

What would be the best way to tell them apart?

[EatTheWeeds]

Well, they are quite difference. Purlane tends to be a smooth leaf, thick with little or no central vein or lateral veins. The Kummerowia as a very distinct center rib and very distinct veins running off the central rib. Comparatively one looks smooth and fleshy, the other ridged and rough, sometimes even partially folded in the middle. The purslane leaf does not fold.

[adramatictheme]

The other day while looking around my Grandpa's garden I found purslane growing among some squash vines. I went back today and dug up 2 plants, one i transplanted into a pot, and the other (which was too big for my pots) into a corner of my garden.

[otakop67]

I bought some cultivated Purslane today. It has the yellow blossoms but they are a good bit bigger than what you have there. The blossoms are about 45mm wide with 5 petals and some have a 6 pointed star-like stigma and several anthers. I haven's tried this one yet because it's blossoms are bigger than the one you had there. Any thoughts on it's safety?

[EatTheWeeds]

Bought it? At a garden store for landscaping? First, theyu put a lot of stuff on those kinds of plants so that is one issue. And while those cultvars might be edible I do not know of anyone who has tried them. They've always been on my list of things to explore.

[otakop67]

Well, Deane, I tried some yesterday using the military method for determining edibility.

First, I washed what I clipped to rid it of any chemicals. Next I placed a leaf in my mouth and held it there without chewing for 10 minutes, no ill effects. Next I chewed some and held for 5 minutes without swallowing, no ill effects. Finally I swallowed it and had no ill effects. I followed the same procedure for the stems as well. It's been 24 hours so far so I guess it passes the Dick Deuerling method.

[otakop67]

Everything with the plant seemed identical to the one you have there except for the size of the flower, so I wasn't horribly worried. My only concern was unknown allergies, but I seem to have passed the test.

I'd put the taste of this one to be similar to salted watermelon once you get a little close to the rind. I bought this because for the life of me I couldn't find it in the wild. Just my luck, I find a wild one in the garden center's parking lot on the way out. It's being seeded as we speak

[kryptiea]

lol I have been fighting this weed in my garden for 4 years. It has to be this it has the stems that turn kind of red as it gets older and the seed pods and small yellow flowers. Not 2 weeks ago i pulled a bundle of this up muttering about this weed. I will not be throwing anymore of it away!!

[EatTheWeeds]

Good. I only ask you don't take my word for it. Check it out and satisfy yourself it is the right plant.

[laraskye]

Ok, so, I went to the beach today and I did not find ANY purslane. But, I did find wild peas. lol. So, we're having wild pea soup. How do ya like that!

[EatTheWeeds]

Hmmm... the beach is not the usual place to find purslane but rather Sea Purslane, Sesuvium portulacastrum. As far as wild peas go, be careful. That is a family that has edibles and toxics members.

[laraskye]

of course Sea Purslane but I had no luck. Maybe it was that particular beach, anyway, the peas are fine. I'm making soup tomorow!

[EatTheWeeds]

Please make sure those peas are edible. It's an iffy family.

[laraskye]

Thank you for your concern : ) They are called Beach Peas and are Lathyrus japonicus (whatever that means) lol.  Quite good and edible! Good beach pea soup! That sounds funny.

[smitty32303]

Hi Deane, Just wondering if you could recommend any good ilustrated manual's that would cover the N. Florida / S. Georgia plants that would serve as a field guide for my BOB if and when the SHTF..... Smitty in Tallahassee

[origirox]

Those are questions I wrestle with too that you pose in the middle of you video. I guess more Purslane for me. I enjoy a slight lemon and salty flavor from Purslane (raw). Yummmers!!! TY

[EatTheWeeds]

Some times I feel like the last expert in the slide rule must have felt. It was a tool that put us on the moon and now worthless. Most folks view foraging as bizarre at best, dangerous at worse. They also trust agriculture to feed them.

[dazigg]

But! Know Deane that you are appreciated and your efforts are recognized for the time-honored traditions they attempt to further and support! You are actively doing your part in your way and we see that, and we thank you. I personally have learned so much from you, you've given me a deeper perspective into my surroundings and you've inspired me to get as "Green" as I can! In everything I do! You are a valuable resource! :)

[sts3235]

Have u thought of going vegan to further esteem your lifestyle?

[EatTheWeeds]

Everyone flirts with vegetarianism, and over my 60 years I have, twice in fact. But I like bacon too much. Not only am I an omnivore but there are no foods I dislike. I eat everything.

[laraskye]

Grows like crazy in CT. I love it! I add it to my rice dishes. yum! Thank you xo

[lesliepostin]

wonderful video deane! so timely also, as i have magnificent purslane growing in my strawberry bed and i just harvested a huge batch tonight! thanks for sharing all the benefits of eating this wonderful green! :)

[TreyNitrotoluene]

My chickens eat the heck out of those. They don't leave me any to try :P

[goblinboy77]

hello dean i have a question i'm growing some dandelions in a pot if i dont pull the roots out will it regrow next season or will i have reseed the pot and thanx for the info on the purslane transplanting

[EatTheWeeds]

If the root has room in the pot to grow it can live several years.

[Paladin57]

I love this plant! On our farm it is quite common. When I'm walking my dog, I always grab a handful for a snack. I've never really prepared it, but may do so. Thanks for putting this video together Deane :)

[GrannySays]

I serve a lot of perslane. Stir fried in butter makes a wonderful side dish. One night late my grand daughter went outside and brought some and we all had a perlane stir fry treat.

I make salsa with it. I've never pickled it but I know folks who love it pickled. I'd think a nice simple Dilly Bean Pickle solution would make it good. I may try that one time if the Granddaughter is about to pick it for me. It grows all over the place. I often suggest to people it looks similar to a succulent

[StarFlower99654]

Oh wow, when i was a kid (in ohio) we had to weed the garden and this was one of those 'weeds' my brother and me called it rubber plant. Had no idea of its name or value. I dont think they grow here in Alaska tho or at least i havent seen any??

[EatTheWeeds]

The USDA map, which can be very wrong, says it does not grow in Alaska. However, it grows in British Columbia so I suspect it is in Alaska, too, as plants don't pay attention to borders.

[fbt2007]

What a great plant to know about. One of the most nutritious and it's been under my feet all along. You have educated me so, sorry less for you:-) It's amazing that the plant is not cultivated here in the U.S. especially with all of our health fads. We fortify our orange juice but hey, lets ignore one of the most nutritious plants we have. 5 stars and one of my favorite videos that you have made! Thanks Green Deane.

[WhyYouSo]

You are invaluable, Deane! Thank You!

Question: I THINK I have this growing in my garden...problem is, I've NEVER seen those blossoms...is there anything that resembles this plant? What I have DOES have those barrel seed pods (which I sort of enjoyed just plucking off LOL)

Thanks for your time, much respect and admiration!

[EatTheWeeds]

On many purslane the blossoms stay open for only a few hours, usually right after the morning sun hits them. Then they close. So you may have to look at them several times to catch them in blossom. There are some spurges that resemble purslane but they have white sap. Purslane seeds tiny black things about the size of the eye of a needle, and edible.

[WhyYouSo]

Thanks so much. I will see what the sap looks like. When I had seen this plant before (grows like crazy in my flowerboxes)...I'd often said I wish I was an animal so I could eat this succulent plant. LOL! Now I can! And I can stay human! :-D

Love what you do, Green Deane...at at time when we need to go back to basics and find the REAL deal, not this genetically modified stuff with no nutritional value. Love ya! =)

[WhyYouSo]

I forgot all about this...but the other morning I woke early and looked in on my plants...there was my purslane with those elusive blossoms open! WOWEE! I only ate 1 leaf because they're pretty small plants, just getting started...Not Bad! :-P

Lotsa Love, Deane~~<3

[EatTheWeeds]

Great.... the sea purslane is the same way... you have to look for the blossoms early.

[HedgeWitchMagic]

Oh I am sad. I just ripped that stuff out of my garden the other day. I thought is was something else. What a shame.

[EatTheWeeds]

Don't be sad. If you had it once you will have it again.

[HomesteadProvocateur]

Is this like a succulent? This weed grows everywhere!!! Had I known it was such a good source of food, I would have been eating my entire life. I guess better late than never.

[EatTheWeeds]

Similar to a succulent but it is not a succulent.

[MadBadVoodo]

Five Stars!!

[AScannerClearly]

Purlsane is by far my favorite wild edible (to date), and is also the first one I ever identified in my garden. I've kind of let it go out there and it grows all over the place, but some of the leaves have white spots on them, fungal infections surely since it's been raining so much this year in New Jersey... so I'm ending up picking off 1/2 to 1/4th of the leaves on every plant I harvest. But still my favorite though.

[HungryHillboy]

This was a great video and subject. It makes me sad when I hear people talking about hunger and malnutrition in this country. Its all about perception and education. Great job Green Dean trying to educate people.

[adramatictheme]

Great video Deane, I've seen this around. Time to I.T.E.M.ize it and give it a try.

I also agree with one of your comments below, I'll take a "weed" that has been eaten for thousands of years over a GMO crop any day!

[EatTheWeeds]

I am not a luddite but I have some reservations about GMO. DNA strands are like standing dominoes with junctures. Change one domino and a different cascade of traits can happen. I know two yams. They are similar. One vine twists clockwise, one vine counterclockwise. One is toxic the other is not. Did the gene that changed the direction of twist also cause a DNA cascade that also included creating toxins? Do gene insertions cause changes we don't know about or look for but which can harm us?

[nikrguy]

I was first introduced to purslane by a Chinese friend of mine who gave it to me in a steamed dumpling with pork. Yum. He dries it and uses it as a green in dumplings during the winter. He has told me that if you want to dry it that it has to be blanched briefly. This is my favorite green. I'm glad you did it!

[odin422]

looks like i got some of that in one of my pots...hahahaha!

time to grow a bunch of it

[vudumojo]

Awesome as usual.

Thanks Deane.

[EatTheWeeds]

Thanks... you're kind to me...

[feralkevin]

I always have way more of this plant than I can eat. There's something about it that tells my body quickly that I've had enough. Is there oxalic acid in it? Do you know of a way to process it so you can a lot of it? I've noticed others, too only can eat a little bit.

[EatTheWeeds]

It does have oxalic acid, 1,679 to 16,790 ppm. The more ammonium in the soil the less oxalic acid.

[ccm800]

omg I am a comment hog - but - can you possibly tell us about Burdock?

[EatTheWeeds]

It is amazing that if I put my website address in an answer You Tube deletes it. I have an article on burdock on my site... eat the weeds.... It provides greenery and in the second year a starchy root. It was also the inspiration for velcro.

[ccm800]

is the "method" explained in any particular video?

[EatTheWeeds]

I think I did so back in video #2... it took me a while, as they say, to get my act together....

[ccm800]

that plant does geometry and divides by 2

[ccm800]

almost triple digits mister!

[EatTheWeeds]

Yep... I think I will do Pine next, but the last eight may take a while... time, season... et cetera

[EbolaV1rus]

Fantastic, I have loads of this plant growing everywhere. I let it grow because I like the way it looks, and it helps control other weeds.

I'm working on preserving enough food to last 1 year..can this be preserved in anyway?

The negative attitude people have about wild edible plants, is what helps give power to corporations like Monsanto.

Wonderful video, thanks for sharing!

[EatTheWeeds]

As it is mostly water, drying is not a prime option. It does, however, pickle well.

[EbolaV1rus]

ok fantastic, thanks!

[abyssquick]

This one I pick all the time.

There are some upright forms that grow around my yard. There are also smaller, redder plants.

[EatTheWeeds]

Like most plants, there are variations. Purslanes with non-yellow blossoms are a different matter. They may, or may not, be edible.

[abyssquick]

Like the ornamental pink portulaca at wal-mart.

I collected seed from the large, upright purslane, and it's now all over the garden. But I don't mind. Some of the paddle-shaped leaves are the size of my thumb. It's really a great vegetable.

[CearaQC]

I know how it is trying to show people about edible "weeds." We have a plant here called Fireweed and the entire plant is edible. I've told a number of folks about it and they all look at me funny. Well, they will just miss out on the shoots in spring to steam and the fireweed honey that I will make once the blooms are big enough. Yep, in this case, more for me.

[888zzz]

Too bad we don't have the same prejudiced attitude towards the big agricultural crops that are destroying the planet.

[EbolaV1rus]

Agreed, GMO foods are slowly killing us, along with all of the harmful chemicals needed to grow them.

[EatTheWeeds]

I'm a strong advocate of eating like our great grand parents. It was proven safe over thousands of years. genetically modified foods, additives, and various pesticides and herbicides have not.

[Beardedyoungman]

Thanks Deane, my friends garden is full of it this summer. pretty much only weeds they have are purslane that was holding the soil in hills really well!! plantain inbetween rows where feet trod and lambs quarters! and clover they planted as cover crop. but was so neat to see the purslane, a great weed to cover the topsoil for keeping vengeful weeds at bay

[sidsthirdeye]

wow! had this growing at the house i just moved out of and didnt even know it!

will go back and rescue it!

[Dreadwitch]

isn't that the sticker burr plant? the one that leaves painful little multi pointed thorns in my feet when i walk around barefoot?

[rstallings69]

no stickers at all,,,,they have little seed pods that bust open but not spiny at all

[EatTheWeeds]

No, no stickers or points what so ever... you might be thinking about sandspurs.

[abyssquick]

...and sandspur is edible when young. I use it like wheatgrass, to make juice.

[EatTheWeeds]

I carefully burn the spins off in a fire (by holding the stem) and parch it.

[Dreadwitch]

oh cool!!! i was wondering if it was edible. I've got quite a bit of it popping up next to my driveway right now. and when young it definately had red stems like parslane which is why i thought it was purslane but the stems on an other plant i saw a couple hours ago seems to be losing the red! i am not sure if i have ever seen parlane then here in south texas. thanks for the info! =^-^=

[EatTheWeeds]

Parslane? Purslane? Are you referring to two different species?

[Dreadwitch]

eeps! yeah purslane. i am not that great of a speller >_>

[Khono]

Mmm, looks like a succulent! I need to take your advice and transplant some from the wild. A pity that woman was so obstinate, I'd love to have such a garden. But maybe she'll remember what you said if they fall on hard times and she'll get a taste for it.

[nhpr]

I wonder what your neighbors thought when they saw you standing there, filming the base of your local stop sign!

[EatTheWeeds]

Green Deane ain't no fool... I do such things in other people's neighborhoods....

[mike29571]

Thank you for reminding me to pick up a few plants for transplant. It grows wild all over my area. 5*