Daily home & garden tip: Pigweed is an invasive weed, but it's edible. Updated: Apr. 17, 2011, 10:28 a.m. ... Pigweed appears in home gardens beginning in midspring.

The Redroot Pigweed is edible. Pluck the young leaves for cooking, as they will be more tender. It can grow quite tall and produces seeds which you can collect to grow new plants.

Pigweed itself was a staple of pre-Columbian peoples living in South, Central and North America. Not only is pigweed foliage edible, but “pigweed seeds are highly nutritious and may be collected ...

Pigweed is usually grown from seed in spring and these can be sown directly into a pot that's at least 12 inches in diameter because each plant can reach a height of up to 6 feet.

Joe Ikley, North Dakota State University Extension weed specialist, conducted trials in edible fields near Fargo, North Dakota, and in Barnes County, North Dakota, on herbicide resistant pigweed.

Back in August, I received an email from Ronald Chong, who gardens in Hacienda Heights. Chong sent a picture of a plant for which he sought identification. I told him it looked like pigweed, but ...