Garden Weeds You Can Eat - Pigweed Amaranth

If you have a garden and the weeds get out of hand, no problem! If those weeds are Redroot Pigweed Amaranth. Just like many other kinds of Amaranth, Redroot Pigweed is one of the great summertime garden weeds you can eat. Here's how to identify redroot pigweed, with tips on picking, preparing, and preserving your wild greens harvest, too.

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Identification: 1:01
Picking: 2:13
Kitchen Processing: 5:17
Preserving by Freezing: 6:22

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Redroot Pig Weed, Amaranthus retroflexus, Family Amaranthaceae (the amaranth family)
Lambs quarter, Chenopodium album, Family Chenopodiaceae (the goosefoot family)

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My other videos about Redroot Pigweed and Lambs Quarter:

Is My Lambs Quarter and Amaranth Too Old to Eat? -    • Is My Lambs Quarter Too Old To Eat? H...  

Lambs Quarter - and the only recipe you need -    • Picking and eating lambs quarter: wit...  

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If you want to improve your foraging skills, here's my playlist - Foraging: Real Food for Regular People -    • In the Garden  

If you want to eat what you forage, here are playlists about preparing your harvests:

Cooking Wild Greens -    • Wild Greens Recipes: You Can Cook Del...  

Wild Salads -    • Wild Salads: Foraging Wild Edible Pla...  

Here are my playlists about specific wild plants:

Dandelions -    • Dandelions: Foraging Wild Edible Plants  

Wild Mustard Plants -    • Wild Mustard Plants: Great Wild Edibl...  

Elderberry -    • Elderberry Bushes, Flowers and Berrie...  

Spruce Trees -    • Spruce Trees: Foraging Wild Edible Pl...  

Pine Trees -    • Pine Trees: Foraging Wild Edible Plants  

Redbud Trees -    • Redbud Trees: Foraging Wild Edible Pl...  

Detailed ID of Wild Mushrooms -    • Wild Mushrooms - Deep Dive into Ident...  

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If you like to garden, too, here are my gardening playlists:

Potatoes - An easy and productive garden crop -    • Potatoes - An easy and productive gar...  

Elephant Garlic: How to get the most out of growing Elephant Garlic -    • Elephant Garlic - How to get the most...  

Collards: How To Grow and Use ALL of Your Collard Plants -    • Collards: How To Grow and Use ALL of ...  

Hops: How To Grow and Use ALL of Your Hop Plants -    • Hops: How to Grow and Use ALL of Your...  

In the Garden -    • In the Garden  

Here's my YouTube channel:
   / haphazardhomestead  

#wildfood #eatyouryard #eatwild #foraging #wildgreens #HaphazardHomestead

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Music: "Apprehensive At Best" by Biz Baz Studio, "Campfire Song" by Chris Haugen, and "Glen Canyon" by Dan Lebowitz from the YouTube Audio Library. "Bummin on Tremolo" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...