The plants pop up and do all their growing before the trees leaf in and provide full shade to the forest soil. Wild leeks or ramps ( Allium tricoccum) is known as a spring ephemeral because it grows in shady locations for just a short time in the early spring. This chickweed bath vinegar sounds like a nice way to utilize its benefits as well. It’s extremely gentle, and one of the herbs in my herbal diaper rash salve. I make it into a chickweed tincture for disinfecting wounds. It’s perfect for making into an herbal salve to use on rashes, bug bites, or otherwise dry or itchy skin. It contains saponins, which makes it cooling and soothing for the skin. It can also be made into a cooling bath vinegar for dry skin or added to a herbal diaper rash salve.Ĭhickweed is also an amazing medicinal plant. Medicinally, chickweed is cooling to the skin, and it can be used topically on rashes and bug bites. It also makes a tasty, albeit mild, early spring chickweed pesto. It’s high in minerals, and while it tastes a bit bland, it can boost the nutritional content of spring salads. Chickweed is only available in the early spring, as it doesn’t do well in the heat of summer. One of the very first spring greens, chickweed often begins growing before the snow has fully melted back in the very early spring. My daughter holding a harvest of fiddleheads and ramps.
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