Is this purslane?
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What say you clever people: is it indeed purslane? Because if it is, I'm going to nurture it and plant it in my orchard area and eat of it frequently.
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The stems are a bit darker than I remember. I've seen the leaves go from thick like a succulent to thin and leathery. The stuff around here has a tiny lemon flavor to it. Since you mentioned encouraging it, it also seems to like growing on rocks or concrete.
Happy harvesting!
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This plant doesn't have the oft-described lemony flavor, but we've been inundated with record-breaking rainfall, and I suspect it's over-watered.
Because of previous poor stewardship by oil and grazing lessees, we have several hundred square yards of bare sandstone on the property, with soil-filled cracks currently growing grass tufts. I might be able to get it established there, which would be awesome.
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"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible." - Samuel Johnson
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Keep in mind though, this is the wild purslane, garden purslane is more upright.
"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system."-Bill Mollison
In our garden in Minnesota it seemed to act as a good ground cover, and didn't seem to compete much with the other plants.
I haven't seen any growing here at wheaton labs, so if someone has tons of extra seed, please send us some and I'll be sure to sow it.
Dan Boone wrote:What say you clever people: is it indeed purslane? Because if it is, I'm going to nurture it and plant it in my orchard area and eat of it frequently.
I love purslane, and yes, that is it. The plants can look different depending on the ph of the soil. It seems to like soil that is acidic enough to grow blueberries, but less than perfectly balanced. It grows well up near Henryetta on a friend's blueberry patch and over in Tecumseh, but not very well in Hughes County - at least not near here or on this place. I tried transplanting some from the blueberry patch, but it didn't make it. It also likes a lot of water. It was growing where the blueberry irrigation was and against the house in Tecumseh where rainwater ran off the roof.
It is delicious on salads and in stir fries. And I saw someone feeding their chickens or goats or something with it? I can't remember, but it was in a video on YouTube. He lived where irrigation water would overflow and the purslane was growing in a cement gutter, so he took a scoop shovel and started rolling it up in big bundles and threw it on his truck. Great way to have organic, non-gmo feed for free (assuming the water that was making it grow so prolifically was clean).
I don't know about "Stupid, large volumes", but I ate it on salads at least several times a week for a couple months and it didn't bother me any.
Gail Gardner @GrowMap
Small Business Marketing Strategist, living on an organic farm in SE Oklahoma
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