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Post by hmoosek on Sept 16, 2022 10:28:56 GMT -6
I’m finally getting some flower pots empty. I now need to determine which greens to grow. It’s sort of like my pea dilemma. I’ve ordered so many I don’t know which ones to plant. I’ll figure it out on the fly.
I’ve never saved seeds from any of the greens I’ve grown and probably won’t this time around. There’s a couple of reasons. Semposai is hybrid, I’ve never eaten sorrel, so I don’t even know if I’ll like it. I’ve got plenty of turnip seed.
Looking at my last order, I thought I was buying a few grams of turnip seed, but I was sent 8 ounces. After re-reading my order, yep, I actually ordered 8 ounces. They came in a couple of 4 ounce packets, so I’ll just put those in the freezer, since I’ve got a small package here in my seed tray.
I’ve have several packets of greens that I bought from Remy. So many, I don’t even remember what all of them are. I may just mix and match some seeds and play the green sauté surprise mix. Will see I guess.
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Sept 16, 2022 11:14:21 GMT -6
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Post by amyinowasso on Sept 16, 2022 11:14:21 GMT -6
I think it was senposai I stirfried with fresh turmeric and Ginger and garlic and then added a can of coconut milk. My husband was working. There wasn't any left when he got home. My favorites are are Yokatta-Na F1 (I've only found this at Pintree),Misome F1 (also pinetree) and Misome Choho, Hybrid (Kitazawa). Salad burnet is a tender perennial, it was green all winter long. It's supposed to taste like cucumber. Chop it like an herb in salads. Pac Choi, Red Violet Hybrid (kitazawa), might be the most beautiful plant you've ever seen. Worth growing for the color.
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Post by triffid on Sept 16, 2022 11:14:35 GMT -6
Last season I let my senposai plants go to seed and they produced rather prolifically, enough seed to last several years from <20 plants. It's a hybrid in the same way that swedes are a hybrid, a cross between two species, rather than F1 generation. And none of that cytoplasmic male sterilty. So it is fertile and breeds true. But looks like you're all set with the turnip greens!
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Post by hmoosek on Sept 16, 2022 19:24:04 GMT -6
I was going to plant today, but I dunno where time went. Maybe tomorrow.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Sept 16, 2022 21:35:58 GMT -6
Time disappears around here, too, HMooseK.
Turnip greens were my father’s favorite according to my mother. I knew he liked them, but I hadn’t realized that they were his favorite until she told me just recently. I just fed some to my family (store-bought, frozen greens) the other week, and my youngest just loved them. He isn’t the biggest fan of other greens, so this was a big surprise. I guess he takes after the grandpa that he never knew. It was nice to be able to tell him that so that he could learn a little more about him.
I enjoy a wide variety of greens. I sure hope I can succeed in growing some this fall. So far I only have kale and beets started (I consider beet greens a vital part of the harvest for that plant), but I hope to add Upland Cress to the mix when it cools down more. I have a selection of Asian greens as well, but I only have so much space and energy, so I haven’t figured out how much of a fall/winter garden I should really attempt. This summer has been a lot of work for not much reward, so I’m thinking it might be smart to give myself a break. I know I’ll miss having things to harvest if I don’t plant, though.
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 17, 2022 20:28:58 GMT -6
A month later and I’m finally getting some planted. I have turnip, collard and senposai sprouted so far. Still waiting on kale, broccoli Raab and sorrel. I put most of these in that long planter that grew red ripper peas this year. Soil should be in good shape, but I went and topped it off with some green package sticks and twigs as I call it.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Oct 17, 2022 20:45:57 GMT -6
It was probably good to wait that month, hmoosek. I know we needed it to cool down here. I went out in a light rain this morning and planted Upland Cress and Ethiopian Kale. I didn’t presprout them, just took advantage of some light rain and cooler temperatures. I’ll have to keep watering them after today, I think, but at least there’s water in the rain tanks now.
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Oct 17, 2022 20:52:06 GMT -6
Post by hmoosek on Oct 17, 2022 20:52:06 GMT -6
chrysanthemumHave you looked at your sorrel seeds? Mine look like specks of black pepper!
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Post by chrysanthemum on Oct 17, 2022 21:00:48 GMT -6
I don’t have any sorrel seeds, I’m afraid. Unless your pepper is a very coarse grind, that sounds very difficult to work with. I have a hard time with some little tiny herb seeds, the kind that come packaged in a tiny inner package inside the normal seed envelope. They’re just so hard to work with. I’ve sometimes used a damp toothpick to pick some up and then put them in my starting medium. I guess I saw that trick somewhere, and it does work.
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 18, 2022 15:30:30 GMT -6
chrysanthemum
I must have got confused. I was thinking you were the reason I bought some to try. I’m trying some new things this year.
Sorrel, Purslane, Cress.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Oct 18, 2022 21:28:56 GMT -6
I think I may have inspired the purslane and the cress as I’ve talked about both of those and did buy cress seed this year. I do eat common wood sorrel that grows wild as a snack, and my kids love it, too. I’ve just never planted any domesticated varieties. I hope you’ll enjoy your new green adventures.
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 21, 2022 14:37:03 GMT -6
Coming up.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Oct 21, 2022 19:16:22 GMT -6
Yippee!
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 27, 2022 18:19:21 GMT -6
These are my Turnip green. They look pretty good. Some of my other greens need to be replanted cause only 2 or three showed up so far. I have 1 collard green in a big flower pot too. None of the sorrel came up.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Oct 27, 2022 19:51:49 GMT -6
My Ethiopian kale is sending up some seed leaves, though my seeds aren’t in such neat and orderly rows as your turnips. They are looking good, hmoosek. I have just a few scattered plants on one side of the bed where my corn used to be. (I still have two corn stalks to cut down.). The Upland Cress I scattered and raked on the other side of that bed, and it is supposedly slow to germinate, but I haven’t seen a sign of it over there. I hope that we’ll get some rain overnight and into the morning and that might help it come along. It’s a little too early for me to think about resowing, but it might come to that.
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