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add it to my salad mix. Miner’s lettuce, purslane and mache are all greens which may be kept growing as a low understory to larger leaves.
Some people are surprised to see chickweed flourishing in my gardens! Perhaps the “weed” in the word is their only acquaintance with this plant. When I see chickweed, I see a food rich in trace minerals plus vitamin C, high calcium, phosphorous and potassium content.
Where chickweed grows on its own, it indicates fertile soil with good nitrogen levels, perfect for growing salad greens. When chickweed grows past its prime, nothing could be easier than pulling out its shallow roots. If I obeyed conventional garden mores, I would miss out on delicious food, soil nutrients and protective groundcover, all gifts of nature.
Even more, I would have missed an essential chapter in nature’s book of wisdom.
This is not all. In understanding the benefits of inviting one wild plant to work with me in my garden, I am open to looking at other wild plants for possibilities of food, medicine, nutrients, plants which indicate soil conditions, feed beneficial insects and give me information about I cannot find in any book.
“Wild-minded” gardening, most of all, is taking the journey of receiving instruction from nature and realizing that a garden is not merely about plants for limited purposes alone.
Wild-minded gardening will bring you to adventure and celebration of all the life in a garden: plants, insects, soil, animals, elements and you!
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