Re: [gardeners] Herb garden
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 08:04:09 -0700
At 04:09 PM 3/25/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Barb Rothenberger <gardeners@globalgarden.com> wrote:
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>> Ray started some arugula this year - haven't grown it before but
>> sure is pretty in salads. Maybe I will like homegrown better.
>
>My Ray loves arugula and radish leaves in salad.
>
>Margaret wrote a couple of years ago about arugula and horse urine.
>I could see the connection until I grew some of that large-leaf
>arugula. Blech! We like arugula selvetica, the small leaf, wild
>arugula. It is much better than the other kind with a cleaner,
>clearer taste.
>
>Last year we had some unbelievable salads with several leaves from
>the mustard family as well as more traditional salad and mesclun
>greens. We also discovered that mature kohlrabi, beet and turnip
>leaves make wonderful greens when cooked in the style of Indian
>peasants with ginger, red pepper and corn flour.
>
>Liz
Liz, would you like some seeds for a mustard lettuce that I grew last year?
They may have crossed with Oriental cabbages (everything was in blossom at
the same time, but I think I got prophylactic cages in place for the
mustard lettuce in time). I don't know who sent the seeds to me last year,
but everyone who tasted it loved it. It's not powerfully mustardy, but
kind of an after-taste. Best, Margaret