Lagos Spinach microgreens experiment

Plants
#1

This plant grows as a weed here in the Philippines.

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The best I can guess is that it is Lagos spinach, even though PlantNet also gives another plant in the same family. Both edible.

We like the taste of the leaves as a vegetable.

I just collected a bunch of flowers to dry and harvest seeds

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I plan to grow this plant as microgreens. It grows wild in my area. No need to plant it in a vegetable garden for leaves :cowboy_hat_face:

Anyone done this before for microgreens?

#2

Common Cockscomb (Celosia argentea). Relative to amaranth, edible. Very useful in fields, as it suppresses witchweed.

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#3

Thanks Martin! :cowboy_hat_face:

I used to have a variety with red leaves - beautiful :heart:
Our Father is amazing in all He created :raised_hands:

There are good videos on YT that show how the people in Nigeria grow and cook it. They call it Efo Shoko.

One clever entrepreneur shows how he harvests the seeds to sell: