My parents, with 7 kids, had a huge family garden. We grew 15-20 different vegetables, including beans, peas, corn, potatoes, peanuts, onions, radishes, carrots, squash, pumpkin, cabbages, lettuce, tomatoes — and those are just the ones I remember.
Mother “put up” tons of stuff for us to use all winter.
But boy, did I hate weeding that garden!
Do you only recall the weeds?
Can’t you remember the taste of fresh vegetables or the wonderful things your mother canned?
Why not have a garden today and think of the weeds as a wonderful gift, what the goats and rabbits do not eat, can be composted and returned to the soil.
I am more than likely the only person on this list, who orders weed seeds and plants them, for eating, by myself.
Amaranth and puslane are very good and some of the wild mustards.
The grasses you can cure and weave into baskets and mats.
I have very few weeds, and so have to grow them from seed.