Chickweed

Even though it is considered a complete nuisance by many vegetable gardeners due to its spreading nature, love for nitrogen rich soil and a tendency to entangle itself in leafy green cultivated crops, chickweed is actually a valuable salad green. It happens to be one of the best of the wild salad greens with a super long harvesting season. Chickweed is an annual plant that self-sows, so it will be found growing in the same areas each year. When growing in rich soil, chickweed acquires a nice, crisp texture similar to commercial microgreens and it has a delicious spinach-like flavour that is slightly peppery and highly nutritious. Chickweed forms very tiny star-shaped flowers with five white petals with two lobes. Chickweed is a fantastic salad green that can also make a nice garnish when it is flowering.