A journal on what it's really like living in a house that is over a hundred years old and surviving the remodel of a kitchen with too many doorways, and it's plywood floor - someday I'll have real flooring I really will I promise.
And having a vegetable garden that is 80% in heavy shade!
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Plant ID
Whatever it is it wintered over, I'm not sure if it's mustard greens or not, ideas???
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When I picked off a part of a leaf it smelled like lettuce or grass not peppery.
I think it is one of the docks..possibly curly dock. If you had said it was lemony tasting I would have said it was sorrel. I have a weed that looks like it, I have never tried to eat the plant but I believe it is edible. It is the bane of my existance. The root if it is chopped with the tiller into tiny pieces..each piece grows.. When I dig it up it never sees my compost pile, into the garbage it goes. http://organicinstlouis.blogspot.com/
It definitely is a dock (Rumex.) Sorrel is another, cultivated, member of the Rumex family. The leaves should taste sour and lemony. It is delicious with light steaming or sauteing.
I think it is one of the docks..possibly curly dock. If you had said it was lemony tasting I would have said it was sorrel. I have a weed that looks like it, I have never tried to eat the plant but I believe it is edible. It is the bane of my existance. The root if it is chopped with the tiller into tiny pieces..each piece grows.. When I dig it up it never sees my compost pile, into the garbage it goes. http://organicinstlouis.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteI'll have to take a taste and see what it tastes like then!
ReplyDeleteThe leaves do not taste lemony and they do not taste sour.
ReplyDeletethen my vote is that it is the same dock I have. when i went to vrious sites it looks to me the same..hope I helped
ReplyDeleteIt definitely is a dock (Rumex.) Sorrel is another, cultivated, member of the Rumex family. The leaves should taste sour and lemony. It is delicious with light steaming or sauteing.
ReplyDeletemost likely either Patience Dock or Curly Dock
ReplyDeletetry cooking the leaves and see if they taste lemony then.
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