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How are my Turkish Rocket and Good King Henry plants doing?
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Adopt the cat, please and thank you.
Have you tried growing Caucasian Spinach, AKA Hablitzia tamnoides? It's shade tolerant, has mild spinach like leaves and a high climber once it gets going. Leaves don't get bitter even after the plant flowers. Stems start off in early spring as purple/green "rosettes" which gradually elongate, they are edible at any stage but nice as a steamed green when about 8 inches long, but leave a few for their leaves!
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Love Jack Jack. He is handsome.
Love Jack Jack! I have one good king henry, am waiting to see if it spreads itself out.
Is chenopodium giganteum, aka tree spinach a thing over there?
Cats gonna cat! ❤️😻❤️
Someday maybe I'll grow vegetables. So far I've been doing yard work for my parents. Their landscaper made many expensive mistakes. We've been trying to fix them. If we can get everything to live through the next two years as we add perennials, then maybe we can finally learn to use the raised bed. It's part shade though. We're getting honeyberries next year.
Are you working with Seakale at all? I had the idea after watching an Eric Tonsemeier video to do a row of Turkish Rockit along side a row of Seakale to have a really nice area where I can get fresh green shoots in the spring. Thoughts?
Someone gave me Turkish rocket seeds from their garden. I keep planting but nothing happens. I guess I need to work harder and grow indoors as seedlings and then transplant? I guess I have to do a little research!
Thank you, great information.
sounds like the Turkish rocket is the more valuable of the two
Our Alexanders is doing great this year. We hope to encourage it to become an enthusiastic self sower.
We use the pre flowering heads of our perennial kale as a broccoli raab for early spring.
What is your watering system?
What makes the plantain desirable?
Love the kitty. Mine passed 2 years ago and my neighborhood cats won't leave my yard now and drive my dog nuts… she is not cat friendly.
I just did a little research on turkish rocket – here in Germany it is considered an invasive species because it crowds out the native plants.
Just in case you might add the topic to your list, how do you cook with Turkish rocket? I have only one plant but it doesn’t have a significant enough harvest to make a dedicated dish so I struggle how to put it into things.
I got some suggestions that I think would grow there good in your area. You should get kaliscopic homesteader kale it is very cold hardy kale variety to zone 4 or 5 and grows big leaves. Also you should grow nine star broccoli it is very cool looking gaint perenial broccoli not as cold hardy but still very cool. There is a native perenial good kind Henry relative native near your area called Blitum californium would be cool to grow and also is a cool native spinach to try. Another rare perenial kale you should try are giant flowering sea kale crambe cordotifolia it is hard to get but bigger then Normal sea kale.
I'm also in 8b, and have several starts begin the good King Henry in my last garden – some came up from seeds sown in a bed with better tilth – my first plant was in the Native clay soil, and was one of the first to emerge, and rarely needed water! The seed heads are also Edible – usually i must cook them along with the leaves, i did winnow some in a paper bag, rinsed and added to quinoa the last 10 minutes to cook as a protein touch pseudo-grain.
It's ability to produce leaves in all but the coldest months makes it one of my favorites. I usually add greens to sautés.