I'm Eating This for Lunch

[digitS']

It is already after 2pm. For that and other reasons, don't pretend to think that you can stop me :/.

Choy Sum . . . the seed for which, I've had for years. It grows nicely. Why haven't the plants from these seeds that I've paid good money for, failed me?

Anyway, some of the petals stuck to my hands while I was washing them and I took a few coarse stems and 1 leaf off. Otherwise, I'm eating them!

Steve

 

[hoodat]

One of my favorites. It make an excellent soup green. I doesn't get very big (at least for me) but it is tender right down to the ground. Much less fibrous than kailaan.

 

[digitS']

I guess that the name literally means "stem vegetable" so if you wait for the plants to bolt, you've waited to the right moment .

This one is of modest size. The Choy Sum from Kitazawa won't grow beyond thread-size in either early spring or early fall. I tried it in the tunnel first, with the plants almost too small to use!

It has been a few years since I've ordered from Evergreen but I may have an excuse for trying AgroHaitai Seed in Canada if I want to broaden my horizons with a new variety .

Steve


uh oh, in the 1st post i meant to say, "why have the seeds i've paid good money for, failed me?." i've kept this other seed going so long, i don't know where the original came from! probably a packet of evergreen seed in the asian market. they used to have it in a rack.

 

[digitS']

Maruba Santoh greens today . . .

If I had the nerve to post this on Jim's thread about still getting okra, etc. out of the garden - I'd do that.

~ sigh ~

There should be greens out of the garden for another week, anyway. The snow that is in the forecast doesn't seem to be "snow accompanied by frigid temperatures." There are parsnips and carrots still out there that should come home to a little more accessible location for the winter. There's also a very nice Scotch kale plant right here at home that I've got my eye on . Of course, I'll have to do something with it before the snow slides off the carport roof and buries it!

~ sigh ~

:/ Steve

 

[catjac1975]

Do you eat the flowers?

 

[digitS']

The flowers? All that held together thru the washing, Cat.

Bok Choy is fine when it begins to flower, also, but Choy Sum is supposed to be, at least, in the process of bolting to seed. Actually, I like both of them when they look like broccoli buds. They will get a little bitter as the flowers open but the entire process is so quick with Choy Sum that someone who grows it really should have a willingness to try them at any stage.

It is true with Hoodat's Kailaan. (He is training me not to use the spelling Guy Lon .) Kailaan will hold up a little better before the buds begin to open. Bok Choy can be nearly as quick as Choy Sum at rushing thru it's life cycle - it really depends on the weather. Stress just sets it up for bolting. When it does that at a pencil-thin size, that can be a little disappointing, even with "baby" Bok Choy. Still, I'm fine to eat any of these as "broccoli" .

Steve

 

[hoodat]

I see bok choy for sale in flower in our local oriental market (Seafood City) all the time so at least some Asians must prefer it that way.