GREENS EDIBLE FLOWERS

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• GREENS - EDIBLE FLOWERS

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Greens

• Cool-weather
• Spinach
• Arugula
• Claytonia
• Endive
• Garden cress
• Mesclun
• Radicchio
• Orach

• Warm-weather
• Malabar Spinach
• New Zealand Spinach
• Purslane

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ARUGULA

• Eruca vesicaria
• Popular in Europe
• Tangy is the taste
• Frost hardy
• 5-7 days to germinate
• 6.0 -7.0
• Plant with bean, beet, carrot, lettuce, onion,
  potato,

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• http//www.localharvest.org/arugula.jsp

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CLAYTONIA

• Montia perfoliata
• Miners lettuce best tasting
• Freeze hardy
• 7-10 day to germinate
• 6.5 -7.0
• Plant with salad greens

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• http//plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/topics.cgi?earl
• plant_profile.cgisymbolCLPEPphotoID
• clpep_002_ahp.tif

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ENDIVE AND ESCAROLE

• Endive is curly, sharp taste, bitter
• Escarole is flat, thicker leaves, less bitter
• 5-7 days to germinate
• 5.5 -7.0
• Plant with salad greens, not with radicchio

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• http//www.belgianendive.com/

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GARDEN CRESS

• Lepidum sativum
• Two forms, broadleaf and curly cress
• Pepper flavor
• 2-6 days to germinate
• 6.0 6.7 ph
• Plant with bean, beet, carrot, cucumber, onion,
  potato

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• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_cress

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MUSTARD

• Brassica juncea
• Spicy flavor
• 4-6 days to germinate
• 5.5 -7.0
• Plant with bean, carrot, cucumber, onion, potato
• Not strawberries or pole bean

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RADICCHIO

• Cichorium intybus
• Zippy flavor
• Popular in Italy
• Lettuce like heads
• 5-7 days to germinate
• Plant with lettuce, not endive or escarole

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• http//gourmetsleuth.com/radicchio.htm

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RED ORACH

• Atriplex hortensis
• Taste like spinach
• Green, red, gold colors
• 7-14 days to germinate
• 6.5 -7.5
• Plant with cabbage family, lettuce, onion, pea,
  radish

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Spinach

• Brassica perviridis
• Brassicaceae
• Annual
• Harvest 1699
• Ph 6.5 7.5

• Prefers 50 germinate

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Edible Flowers

• Bee balm
• Daylily
• Nasturtium
• Runner bean
• Viola, pansy
• Honeysuckle
• Marigold

• Sweet Pea
• Pinks
• Rose
• Sweet woodruff
• Tulip
• Chamomile
• Chrysanthemum

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• http//www.foodsubs.com/Flowers.html

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CONCLUSION

• Many greens are very tasty and full of vitamins
  and minerals.
• Easy to grow
• Spring and fall crops