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The wonders of chickweed
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:00 pm
by 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.
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:02 pm
by richard p
wonderful plant, use it as a salad crop, very high vitamin c content and grows itself what more could one ask for?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:33 pm
by 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.
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:48 pm
by John
Chickens go mad for it - hence the name I suppose.
John