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| Subject: Default Healthy backyard weeds Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:10 pm | |
| Even the weeds are failing in this Texas triple digit heat. Scorched. Five of them. http://www.livescience.com/15322-hea...ard-weeds.htmlDandelion is one of the healthiest and most versatile vegetables on the planet. The entire plant is edible. The leaves are like vitamin pills, containing generous amounts of vitamins A, C and K — far more than those garden tomatoes, in fact — along with calcium, iron, manganese, and potassium. Aside from being surprisingly tasty for a crack dweller, purslane tops the list of plants with omega-3 fatty acids, the type of healthy fat found in salmon. Lamb's-quarters are like spinach, except they are healthier, tastier and easier to grow. Plantain has a nutritional profile similar to dandelion — that is, loaded with iron and other important vitamins and minerals. Nettles tastes a little like spinach, only more flavorful and more healthful. They are loaded with essential minerals you won't find together outside a multivitamin bottle, and these include iodine, magnesium, potassium, phosphorous, silica and sulfur. Nettles also have more protein than most plants. | |
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