"Chookie" wrote in message
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"0tterbot" wrote:

(i've also ordered n.z.
spinach (warrigal) seeds from digger's, but that's another story).

I did that, thinking it would make a nice ground cover on my native plant
bed.
Well, that's like saying that Hitler would make a nice leader of Germany.
Rampant didn't begin to describe it... it went across the ground, up the
shrubs (I had to rip it off to prevent it strangling them), and now it's
coming up in the vegie patch. And I don't find it palatable.

On the positive side, it is no longer rampant because my chooks love it.
They
are currently free-ranging and will keep it from being completely feral
until
I pop them into their tractor again. I don't know what you'd do if you
don't
have chooks...

lmao, that sounds like you have super-intelligent and evil hens to use all
your heavy machinery for you....

ahem. (i do understand the chicken tractor, fear not). what you say here is
not to me a bad thing :-) firstly, i doubt my soil's anywhere near as good
as yours - it may not go feral at all. secondly, i'm always on the lookout
for easy greens for the chooks. they've been a bit grassless lately and the
colour of their yolks is SO much nicer with more greens (plus it's good for
them, since they scoff it up).

if the warrigal gets going, i'll keep a careful eye on it just in case!!!
kylie