Another point of view on : Summer herbicide
treatments can control nutgrass, June 20.
Many of the same people who would be first in line
to point the finger at those who destroy the diverse ecosystem of the rain
forests are also first in line to destroy the diversity in their own back
yards.
In a recent Tulsa World article, a master gardener
answers the question of how to destroy nutgrass in our lawns. I wonder if the better questions might have
been, first, “Is nutgrass edible?” And then. upon finding that the both the tubers
and the seeds are edible, the next questions might be, “What is the nutritional
value of nut grass tubers/seeds and how might I incorporate them into a meal?
I wonder what would happen if we started to rethink
how we see our lawns. If we shift from
the ‘not a blade of grass out of place,’
mentality to one in which dandelion, purslane, lambsquarters, nutsedge,
woodsorrel, poke, are allowed to freely grow, we might find that we don’t need
to water our lawns, we don’t need the expense of poisons, ( runoff from which
are a contributing factor to the destruction of fragile ecosystems in our
waterways) (see Tulsa World June 4 article on Crow Creek), and as a bonus, we
have on hand a constant source of free, non GMO, uncontaminated, nutritional food.
I encourage all of you to preserve what has been
given to us. Take a moment to google the
nutritional value of the above plants.
You are going to be surprised.
Purslane, for instance supplies more omega-3 fatty acids than any other
leafy green and tops the charts in vitamin A.
It is free food and it grows in your own back yard!
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