Wild Plants of Seattle, by the inestimable Arthur Lee Jacobson, gives quite a ringing endorsement to the edibility of knotweed.
Next spring, the young shoots, about a foot high, can be picked and eaten raw. They are crunchy, dripping with juice, and sour. Cooked, they can become sickeningly squishy and sweetish. Pies can be made.
Intriguing! That does sound a lot like rhubarb. Well, in the (probably inevitable) case that it sends out runners to send up shoots beyond the tarp, maybe I'll give eating it a vengeful try.
Knotweed is a nightmare. :/ If it comes back, consider trying roundup as much as I despise herbicides and am a 100% organic gardener. The damn stuff can regenerate from runners that it sends four feet below the surface.
CONGRATS ON THE PUBLICATION!!!! :) How awesome is that?!!!? :) So exciting!
Yeah, I hate herbicides too, but we did get a little bottle of roundup for targeted use on any stubborn new shoots it tries to send up. We got an excellent view of the runners while we were trying to yank them up! And got a lot of them, but definitely not everything.
I'M SO EXCITED. It's not my first story publication, but it's definitely the biggest deal so far. I keep looking at the other names and story titles on that list and bouncing in my chair -- I want to read everything!
And YES, oh man. I do like winter, but I was sick of it by the end of February, and then of course it continued for another couple of months. I'm so happy about spring. I'm thinking that today I might head into the city after work just to sit around reading in the Botanical Garden in a fit of glee for the sunshine.
Yeah, as I did the exercises I kept looking at them and wondering how on earth I'd keep track of all this if I were actually a beginner who hadn't learned this before. But as someone who had learned it before, I noticed a very distinct upswing in my ability to track the spoken exercises and remember how to use grammar in just the few hours I spent on it last night.
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Next spring, the young shoots, about a foot high, can be picked and eaten raw. They are crunchy, dripping with juice, and sour. Cooked, they can become sickeningly squishy and sweetish. Pies can be made.
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CONGRATS ON THE PUBLICATION!!!! :) How awesome is that?!!!? :) So exciting!
It is so nice that spring is actually here. :)
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I'M SO EXCITED. It's not my first story publication, but it's definitely the biggest deal so far. I keep looking at the other names and story titles on that list and bouncing in my chair -- I want to read everything!
And YES, oh man. I do like winter, but I was sick of it by the end of February, and then of course it continued for another couple of months. I'm so happy about spring. I'm thinking that today I might head into the city after work just to sit around reading in the Botanical Garden in a fit of glee for the sunshine.
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