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Re: Natural Clay raised beds and quackgrass

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Are you sure they're edible? Dried quackgrass kills slugs and snails.
Margaret L


At 07:45 PM 4/29/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
>In a message dated 04/27/2000 4:13:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>kitty@cwnet.com writes:
>
><< The only thing I
> can think of(not that I know that much about gardening) is that the darned
> quackgrass is rooted there and is there to stay.Istay it seems- Too bad we
> can't eat that stuff. >>
>Quackgrass a.k.a. Witchgrass is edible.  The roots can be harvested, washed, 
>dried and pounded into flour to bake with.  Make bread or frycakes out of
it. 
> A bit labour intensive maybe but edible.
>
>Lisa
>
>


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