Caught At Last: The Weed Turned Vegetable

 

I bring you this post at 1708 hours East African Time on Sunday 14th June 2020.

What Is Blackjack?

Blackjack happens to have been for years associated to be a weed. Black came about due to its its black seeds. Jack 's origin is what am not conversant with. There may have been a person named Jack who wanted to be famous by nicknaming this plant by his name.

Blackjack is a flowering green plant with white flowers. It happens the stigma are yellow when still young and becomes dull as they  age, culminating in to black seeds.

 

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The Nuisance Of Blackjack

Blackjack has been a nuisance on my farm. As hard as I tried to rid my farm of the weed, is when they flourish abundantly. Their grow rapidly choking my plants a long the way.

Blackjack seeds have a way of sticking themselves on the clothes of people or coats of animals making their dispersal quite easy. Blackjack spread like bushfire.

 

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The Vegetable.

As I was browsing the internet I was shocked to find out that Blackjack is a vegetable. The news filled me with much pleasure, a fact which made me attempt to cook them. OMG! They were delicious! 

The discovery aroused in me the urge to learn more about the blackjack. What I discovered was amazing facts which helped not only my desire to save the weed but to use them in a more helpful way.

 

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Blackjack and chicken

Blackjack was fed to chicken to immunize them against various fowl chicken diseases. Blackjack had qualities which helped chicken. One just hang the leaves in a chicken pen for them to peck. Usually they were hungry much higher so as the chicken jump to get at them. In this way the chicken grow tall too.

 

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Health Benefits of Blackjack

Blackjack may assist in the cure of cancer. It combats cancer at all stages. It can be used for immunization.

One can make health tea from blackjack. I started to embrace blackjack and looked at it with fondness.