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WHEN TO HARVEST:

Early to mid spring. Harvest at the shoot stage when few leaves have unfurled.

SUSTAINABLE HARVESTING:

This is one of the world’s most aggressive invasive plants. Cutting shoots seems to have no impact on it at all. However, while you don’t need to be concerned about sustainable harvesting, you should respect the wishes of the property owner, who may have planted them there for landscaping purposes.

PRESERVING THE HARVEST:

Perhaps the best way to preserve Japanese knotweed is to turn it into fruit leather. See page 108 for how to make Fabulous Fruit Leather.

Japanese knotweed shoots harvested from a West Virginia roadbank on the third week of April.

Japanese knotweed seed clusters

Lambsquarters

RANGE:

Widespread throughout the U.S. and Canada

HABITAT:

Gardens and disturbed soil

POSITIVE ID:

• Lambsquarters is a common bare-soil weed with a distinctive grayish-green appearance towards the center of the growing tips. On magnification, the color comes from tiny beads of whitish wax. These feel like fine cornmeal to the touch, and can be rubbed off.