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footprints
Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 234 Location: North Wales
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wellington womble
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cab
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45448 Location: Essex
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 07 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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Orach is really great, and fat hen is my favourite green. All the chenopiae (spinach, fat hen, orach) are mildly toxic, it's the oxalic acid, just don't have them 3 times a day and you should be fine.
New zealand spinach is pretty good, tried salsola lst year, that was pretty good too. Also never waste your greens off root veg; radish,turnip, swede, carrot all have edible greens. |
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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 07 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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tahir wrote: |
New zealand spinach is pretty good, tried salsola lst year, that was pretty good too. |
Got some seeds of salsola for this year. Never had it before; whats it like?
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Also never waste your greens off root veg; radish,turnip, swede, carrot all have edible greens. |
Although they're not all great; early carrot tops are okay I find but the main crop leaves aren't to my tastes at all. Tried eating salsify greens today, they're pretty much tasteless. Had swede leaves with our mince and dumplings and roast veg this evening, very good they were too. Although swedes get club root, don't they?
I'd also say don't underestimate nettles, chickweed, dandelion, common mallow, etc. Loads of the weeds you'll get on a plot are good eating.
I think that the risk of oxalic acid poisoning from fat hen and co. is rather more theoretical than practical. Theres no such thing as non-toxic, remember. |
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supersprout
Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 66
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 07 4:07 am Post subject: |
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If your ground is seriously affected by club root, I believe it might affect other plants in the same family e.g. turnip, radish, broccoli, and some Oriental brassica. Can anyone confirm whether that's true?
For robust leafy greens: Spinach Beet, Spinach, Perpetual Spinach and Swiss Chard. All these can be eaten young as tender greens. PM me if you'd like to try some Spinach Beet. These have the advantage that you can grow them most of the year, like cabbages.
For tender greens: another vote for Fat Hen, nettle tops, broad bean tops (before the blackfly come), beetroot leaves (Burpee's Golden and Bull's Blood), and pea shoots.
Have you tried baby broad beans in their pods, when they are about the size of your little finger, like mangetout? We never grow enough, so this year I'm going to grow in succession from February through to May for an adequate supply. Lightly steamed, 5-10 minutes. |
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footprints
Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 234 Location: North Wales
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lottie
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cab
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tahir
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wellington womble
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cab
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