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Chickweed
Stellaria media
A tender star-flowered green for cooling itchy skin and a spring salad.
Flavor
Corn-salad green, mild, slightly succulent. The garden’s mildest wild salad.
Symptoms
irritable skin, minor wounds, burns
In favor
Free if you garden
Against
A weed in the wrong bed
Days to harvest
20–35 days from sow in cool weather
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