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Eat Garden Weeds: How-to Tips

I eat a lot of weeds. In this video, I go over 2 key strategies for picking weeds to eat from a garden. I throw in a few helpful tips along the way, too. The first strategy works best when you have one kind of weed that is taking over and trying to dominate the garden. When I was rehabilitating one of my blueberry patches this spring, I found one plant that is a persistent problem, was prevalent, and was prime for picking. That weed was one of the wild geraniums, Dovesfoot Geranium. So that's the weed I keyed in on. I picked a nice mess of wild geranium leaves, and added in a few others that I have a hard time resisting when I find them: plantain, cleavers, and dock. Here's a tip for using this strategy: Even though you may pull all the weeds, you don't have to keep all of them for the kitchen. Choose only the best to eat. The second strategy works best when there's a mix of different plants, mostly at their young, tender, and mildest-tasting stage. This strategy is to pick a wide variety of weeds, even though no one kind will be enough for a meal. This strategy takes more mental effort, to look at each plant and decide what it is and whether to keep it for the kitchen. Here are some tips for this strategy: 1. Keep your picking organized, to make it easier in the kitchen to confirm you only have the edible plants, and to make it easier if different plants need different methods of preparation like blanching with a change of water. 2. Try to pick clean, without a lot of plant material you will have to sort through and throw out in the kitchen. Plants in the garden will have more dirt on them than wild ones in the tall grass. So be sure to wash them well! 3. Use this time to really get to know your weeds and be able to identify the edible weeds out in the wild, away from the garden. 4. Don't feel like you have to keep all the weeds. Don't pick the ones that have been stepped on in the garden or that are stressed. Keep only the best ones for the kitchen. I hope you take the time to looks closely at the weeds in your garden and really learn which ones are good to eat, and enjoy them! And then you enjoy, even more, having a weed-free garden. Dovesfoot Geranium: Geranium molle, Family Geraniaceae To see more on picking, processing, and cooking with wild geranium, see these videos: Homestead Haul #2:    • Wild Greens: Homestead Haul 2 with wild ge...   Homestead Haul #3:    • Wild Greens: Homestead Haul 3 cooking 10 d...   Cooking with wild geranium:    • Cooking wild spring greens: wild geranium,...   My playlist on foraging wild edibles:    • Foraging Wild Edibles: Real Food for Regul...   My playlist on cooking, which includes a lot of weeds:    • Cooking: On the Homestead and in the Outdoors   My YouTube channel: Haphazard Homestead    / @haphazardhomestead