Pacific Northwest Gardening: What are you eating from your garden?, 1 by RickCorey_WA

RickCorey_WA wrote:
>> Planting a new batch of kale, spinach,chard, Pak choi, and lettuce today

Hurray! Good luck!

I've been thinking for weeks that I had procrastinated too long for this year.
- Bok Choy big white ("Round Leaf San Tong" marketed as "Taiwan" Bok Choy)
- Bok Choy baby green (hybrids or 6" Tainong #5001 "Ching Chang")
- Italian leaf broccoli hardy down to 25F (mine overwintered last year, THEN bolted)
- maybe some Komatsuna, Mizuna & Tatsoi

If the Italian leaf brocoli will keep bearing down to 25F, I could have leaves as late as mid-December. But I seem to recall it stopped putting out new leaves after a heavy frost. Synonyms:
Spigariello Liscia
Broccolo Spigariello
Brassica oleracea var. 'Spigariello'
Cima di rape Spigarello or Cavolo Broccolo Spigariello


I never thought to take pictures of the leaf broccoli until it showed it would overwinter, and then bloomed profusely.
(At first it didn't occur to me thqat I had to focus on the YOUNG leaves and COOK them. I thought it was pretty but too strong-flavored for me!)