[Sca-cooks] Ukranian greens question?

[Terry Decker]

Pigweed and lambsquarters both refer to Chenopodium album, which sounds like
the lambsquarters referred to here.  Pigweed is also a name for Amaranthus
retroflexus also called redroot, which is probably the pig fodder mentioned
as the description matches.

Bear

> Hi all
>
> I thought I would post my response to this list as well. To provide
context a
> response was sent to another list regarding these greens. The person
> indicated that a relative said that the word natena meant pigweed and then
> the individual went on to state that it was also called lambsquarters. I
> thought I would do a little bit of research as to me both of these weeds
are
> different weeds. I do not have a diffinitive answer to that. It doesn't
> surprise me that they are referred to in the same family but the websites
I
> provide do make it interesting. Below is my response.
>
> Hi everyone
>
> I find this conversation on weeds somewhat interesting as I had never
heard of
> pigweed being called lambsquarters in my life as they are two distinctly
> different weeds in Ontario. My Ukrainian grandmother used lambsquarters
all
> the time to make a soup that my brothers adored. Pigsweed was never used
to
> feed people. That being said if the pigs got weeds to eat then they got
all
> of the weeds not select ones. Growing up on a farm with a large garden let
> me learn the names of all common weeds as it was the one chore I detested
> above all others - I hated getting dirty.
>