The wonders of chickweed

[Tina]

Last year I was unable to spend as much time on the allotment as usual and as a result one of my beds become completely covered in chickweed. When I finally got round to weeding the result was a wonderfully textured soil underneath. Although prolific, chickweed doesn't appear to do much harm to the plants and if it saves me the trouble of digging I'm all for it.

[richard p]

wonderful plant, use it as a salad crop, very high vitamin c content and grows itself what more could one ask for?

[Carole B.]

If you get to it before it seeds cover it over as a green manure.I have an inherited problem of annual mercury on my plot and that works well as a green manure..but don't let it seed!
Carole.

[John]

Chickens go mad for it - hence the name I suppose.

John