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[digitS']

oops!

don't know how i did the double thread!

digitS'

Here! Since I messed up :/! Let me post some pictures on this of cabbage alternatives:

A late-season planting of bok choy in what had been a potato bed, with what is obviously a missed spud starting to re-grow.

A harvested Fun Jen. These are supposed to be a Chinese Cabbage type but couldn't be much more like a tender, frilly mustard green without being a tender, frilly mustard green.

Bok choy grown somewhere in the garden and on there way to be transplanted, somewhere else in the garden.

A late-sowing of Komatsuna ready for harvest. This veggie will grow 5 times this large if grown in spring! But, it is perfectly tender and wonderful as a little green in the fall .

Red potatoes. I just thought I'd throw those in . . .

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[hoodat]

Love those Chinese greens. They're the mainstay of my Winter garden here in San Diego. My favorite is the golden choy sum. It gives a light crop because it isn't very big but it's very tender and great in salads, stir fry or soup. I always have plenty of garden space in Winter anyway.

 

[digitS']

Choy sum is great, Hoodat!

I grew an Asian green for a number of years without knowing what it was. (The seed was a gift.) It didn't seem to be quite bok choy . . .

Then, I ordered some choy sum seed and realized the connection. Don't be afraid to use the flowering bok choy in a similar fashion to the choy sum. Just be conscientious about harvesting it and leaving a few coarse, lower leaves in the compost pile.

I've looked around and can't find any of my pictures with a good view of guy lon (I believe you and others like to spell it "kaillan," Hoodat). It is kind of just a big version of choy sum. And then, there is the Scotch kale that I've got harvested down, or maybe I should say "up," to looking like palm trees by the end of the season! People wonder if they shouldn't leave it until and thru winter because it's supposed to get more tender. Darned if I know . . . poor plants are nearly picked down to stalks by December.

Steve

 

[lesa]

I never got to eat any of my bok choy... Every bug in the garden enjoyed it immensely though! Nothing much bothers my cabbage, so I will stick with that, I guess!

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i've had luck with the Napa cabbage before and really liked it for my stir-fry. i haven't tried the bok or pak choy but i do have seeds for it and will try it this summer!

 

[digitS']

I struggle with Chinese cabbage. It grows fine under plastic in the spring but that is a real limitation . . .

I never got to eat any of my bok choy... Every bug in the garden enjoyed it immensely though! Nothing much bothers my cabbage, so I will stick with that, I guess!

Oh no, Lesa!

I have problems with flea beetles on any of these brassica family plants. As Hoodat has pointed out elsewhere, the flea beetle problem lessens as we move thru the season and late-planted bok choy and such can get thru with minimal damage.

I don't care . . . well, I do but I'm willing to blast away at the flea beetles with Spinosad.

Steve

Edited to say that I can no longer find Rotenone-Pyrethrin spray, which always worked well on flea beetles.