So many weeds are edible so don't pull them, eat them freely (in more ways than 1)
Purslane is a BIG one- one of the most nutritious weed to eat. Even has omega 3
Amaranth leaves is another... and clover.
Weeds are absolutely wonderful in a salad.

lettice. And I love the lemony taste of wood sorrel. https://share.google/dCCXabZGBjeAigIuB

You can make popcorn like snacks from the Amaranth seed heads.

Thanks for the tips.

i'll throw leaves in a salad or a soup, but what about the seed heads?

the little seeds themselves are used as grain , but i don't know how that either.

the dandelions are good as well .

plant lettuce and other spring greens thick and thin them as they grow. i use a big plastic tub and end up with about 4 big bibb heads.

lettuce is better in winter here, mine is already gone to seed and replaced in the tub with 4 eggplants.

no gluten tho if i'm not mistaken- so there's that. I like my gluten.
i'm sure there's videos to instruct.
stinging nettle leaves are quite nutritious when young.

Clover does.

Purslane is occasionally packaged and sold at the grocery store. I saw a small package the other day for $5,99.

Certain flowers can be put in salads. Nasturtium is one.
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So many more, even in Texas heat.

As you say, Amaranth and purslane just pop up once you get some out there and spread around by humans or by birds.
Lambsquarters, turk's cap, mulberry (berries and leaves), even ornamental sweet potato leaves, garlic chives...all delicious/nutritious.

Garlic chives in your scrambled egg is an easy touch that tastes better than without.
Watch cooks from around the world to get better ideas.

It's a shame the permaculture forum here is so dead.

A relative of mine was fond of adding weeds to his salads from his garden until one day a few years ago when it turned out he was eating foxglove and ever since he's been a virtual vegetable himself. Unless you really know what you're doing stay away from weeds.

Not even bolting.

In a pot that I keep watered. And it's a leaf lettice mix.

... but my leaf lettuce - slobolt - did last thru June when it was 100 for a week or so. I did keep them always shaded. Good enough but could be better.
.. had really good luck with 'nevada' brand name lettuce last year 2025, but could not find it this year at Walmart. 20 plants and four times more leaf than this year with slobolt.
.. have relatives in minnes and family history from south side Chicago.

I have about 1 1/2 raised beds devoted to greens. In the past, at a time when I didn’t have much outdoor space, I planted greens in two window box type planters. Worked well.

A while back I happened to pass a house which sat on a small lot where the owner had three sides of her house surrounded by 5-gallon buckets filled with the healthiest looking veggies I’d ever seen. You don’t need a lot of land in order to grow veggies.

Our library gave away tomato plants in cups….two to a household….this spring. Mine are doing really well.

it's easier to just not eat packaged salad mixes.

Plus, not everyone has a yard. Or grass. Or time. Or the inclination.

It's a nice thought though.

That is all

Always took her excess grapefruit from her 3 miniature trees to the local senior center. Always gone the next day.

I planted twenty seeds in April, ten germinated, and have had leaf lettuce daily May and June, and they just bolted early July.
You can try but I doubt will grow. They might germinate then die. Further north better chance but Idaho and Montana had 100 degrees yday.
You can cover any seedlings with leaning sticks to keep in shade, or somehow shelter them from the sun all but one morning hour for first couple weeks, and never let full sun hit them all day no matter how big they get.
Best chances wait till mid August and plant for a fall crop Octoberish.

of water to prevent bitterness. Hot weather is tough on lettuce, but plenty of water, and a little shade will make your grow successful.

I've been told that I need a wire fence three feet under the garden ground and three feet above the garden to prevent that. That's too much work for me. The farm up the road sells it so I buy it from them.

Do people on here understand that gardening vegetables is often about doing things that pay-off months later?

Maybe don't plant lettuce. Maybe harvest dandelion green and broadleafe plantain, even white clover growing NOW in your lawn can be pitched into a salad bowl.