Earlier this year, we posted a video all about the worst weed we’ve encountered in our deep mulch garden: Quackgrass (AKA couch grass, twitch grass, witch grass, devil’s grass, etc.)
In this video, we decided to test out it’s claimed edibility, and made some quackgrass rhizome tea.
Original Quackgrass video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwUw_Bq2p1Y&t=443s
When my dad bought his first house in the states the neighbour complained because he didn't know dandelions were considered weeds and he let them cover the yard.
In China they're considered a delicacy and people often harvest them as soon as they appear so that it's actually rare to find them.
It's funny to think the reason certain weeds become a problem is because we don't see the value in them.
I've made maple tea. I tried fresh material. I never got the color and flavor density of dried material. It seams way more potent to use dried material.
Crab grass ? Pretty darn sure what it is pal !
Grass has been our staple for 14,000 years.
Here in bosnia during war time (90') we used to take nettle, boil it and eat it. I like the taste and do it still today
What software do you use for animations?
Can you make a tea or a broth from grass? are there toxins in it?
A fun and interesting video. Thank you. How was your harvest this past fall, 2020? I don't see a video yet.
I'm taking a firm stand on this one – no!
I did this with dandelion
Could you tell me what program/software you use for your animations? Thanks!
Here in VA, there is kudzu, poison ivy, English ivy, and Virginia Creeper, some of which grow in similar ways to the quack grass.
It would be great to come up with good uses for these, especially the kudzu!
Thank you for interesting videos, i'm a new subscriber…
We did the no-til garden thing for 3 years and have fought the last 3 droughts enjoying the straw mulch for it s ET benefits. But this year with that cold spring the slugs decimated our garden, and quack grass decided it was its year to make its move. My wife called uncle after replanting the second time and removed the mulch to get the soil to finally warm up and let the plants get ahead of the slugs. That let the quack grass flourish even more and creeping charlie to join the party. I gave up this fall and instead of cover cropping opted to do a fall burn down with roundup weathermax and eragon and ran the rototiller. Hopefully after some composted beef manure and some elemental sulfur we'll make the no-til thing work very well with what we've learned over the last 3 years.
DON'T EAT GRASS.
Use a coffee grinder and your tea will be far
more potent. Use a steeping ball.
I wouldn't try to dig out those rhizomes if you dont have great friable soil like these folks
Make paper??? Im sure it would work for that.
I see the question about dehydration has been properly answered already, so I just wanted to say I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS 🙂 I'm stuck living in a 3x4m room in the city and it's a breath of fresh air to spend some time thinking about gardening and nature in general.
What about feeding the tea back to your garden for nutrients
Not sure if you can eat grass but I've heard you can smoke it
anyone here eating grass as a food
6:55 Shake off the dirt?
More like return the seeds to the ground
We have animals eat the grass for us then we eat the animals. But, our farmers usually feed them corn instead to save money. So the animals get sick from the corn diet and then the farmers give the animals antibiotics to keep them alive. This is the reason why you have health problems. All because we refuse to feed the animals grass. Someone get a clue please.
No, You Can't Eat The Grass!
Sometimes it is also helpful to chop dehydrated plant parts before steeping them into tea because it creates more surface area
Not sure why, but I came here to ask if you can take a handful of grass, crush it with some water in a mortar and pestle, and eat it
Link to video of me eating grass:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I got curious and searched if grass has any nutritional value and learned so much interesting stuff
You can eat grass if you want tape worm.
I ask 1 simple Gotham question can I go outside and eat my dam grass