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Tag Archives: Growing Asian Vegetables
For Easy To Grow Greens, Think Asian
I recently posted the following article at Kitchen Gardener’s International, a nonprofit organization whose mission “is to empower individuals, families, and communities to achieve greater levels of food self-reliance through the promotion of kitchen gardening, home-cooking, and sustainable local food … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian greens, Fun Jen, Growing Asian Vegetables, komatsuna, mizuna, pak choi, tatsoi, Tokyo Bekana, Yukina Savoy
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Growing Asian Vegetables: Mizuna
Are you familiar with mizuna? It’s quite possible you and many others have eaten mizuna and never realized it, since it’s a common ingredient in salad green mixes you find at the grocery. And there’s a good reason it finds its way into those mixes. Mizuna is quick and easy to grow, cold hardy, mild tasting, and very lovely to look at too. The crisp leaves are sturdy and keep well after harvest, and they add some ‘loft’ to salad mixes. Mizuna is also tasty when cooked, useful in soups, lightly steamed, or stir-fried by itself or with other vegetables and meats. And that makes it pretty versatile in the kitchen as well as in the garden. Continue reading
Growing Asian Vegetables: Komatsuna
This is the third installment in a series about my experiences growing Asian vegetables. You can find the other articles by clicking on the tag “Growing Asian Vegetables” at the bottom of this post. In her book “Oriental Vegetables: The … Continue reading
Growing Asian Vegetables: Pak Choi
This is the second installment in a series about my experiences growing Asian vegetables. You can find the other articles by clicking on the tag “Growing Asian Vegetables” at the bottom of this post. Whether you call it pak choi, … Continue reading
Growing Asian Vegetables: Tatsoi
This is the first installment in a series about my experiences growing Asian vegetables. You can find the other articles by clicking on the tag “Growing Asian Vegetables” at the bottom of this post. My first encounter with tatsoi came … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian greens, Gardening, Growing Asian Vegetables, tatsoi, YukinaSavoy
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