Hi there,
Does anybody had grow any of these orient veggie?
Here these are mine ;)
They are Choi Sum & Purple Choi Sum. Sowed direct to ground in 25th June.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v412/sharliu/pakchoisum500.jpg)
These Choi Sum they can first time when they're ready. Pinch the top flowers head with a couple of leaves. Leaving 2-3 leaves behind to let it grow sideshoots. So these can have 2-3 time harvesting.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v412/sharliu/pakchoisum350jpg.jpg)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v412/sharliu/purplechoisum350jpg.jpg)
These are Pak Choi. Same sowed direct to ground on 25th June.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v412/sharliu/pakchoi351jpg.jpg)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v412/sharliu/pakchoi350jpg.jpg)
They are very good for stir fried with garlic & oyster sauce!
Have you try it yet :P
I love Pak choy, never thought about growing it though, will look out for the seeds... I have usually bought it at Costco, not many places sell it nice and crunchie. Perhaps next year!
Where would you buy the seeds.... I usually buy my seeds online at DT Browns, anyone recommend better sites? Linda
Nicky's Nursery sell (among other things) a nice range of oriental veggie seeds:
http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/altsal.htm
You've done well to keep the flea beetle and slugs off them, hardly nibbled at all..
8)
Fabulous pics yuet_lee, thank you - it's sooo good to see how they should be grown!
My son has asked me to grow Chinese cabbage, there seem to be different sorts - any recommendations for the varieties to sow now and in the autumn? ::)
I grow as many of them as possible and am busy now with chinese cabbage, pak choy, mitsuba, komatsuma and soon will be sowing all the salads such as mizuna, the mustards, mibuna, indian mustard - many of these are frost hardy and will keep going, until they are all eaten that is :)
I would recommend them if you like salads and veg that need so little cooking such as in stir fries and they look so good when growing as well. They are getting more popular now and a good selection can always be found in the seed catalogues.
http://www.vidaverde.co.uk/sweetgreens.html (http://www.vidaverde.co.uk/sweetgreens.html)
Supersprout now there still plenty of time to sow most of our oriental veg. Kai Lan & Kai Choi( Chinese mustard ) will doing well when Autumn. Specially Chinese mustard will survived over winter with little protection! ;)
To be honest with you I never grow any Chinese Cabbage(Chinese Leaves) before. :) Will try it next year.
I brought all my seeds from Hong Kong last time when I went back that was 3 year ago! I think it was easier for me to buy that I know that it is, because most of it been translated differently. ??? ???
One important rule to all the oriental veggies are they're all needed plenty of water. Otherwise they'll bolt it straightaway!
and many are in the brassica family so you need to keep that in mind for crop rotation
I have to grow my pak choi etc. in a growbag in the greenhouse due to flea beatle :'(
thanks yuet_lee and all - mt, does that mean that mesh is no good against flea beetle? :-\
I've tried every kind of mesh going but FBs still ruin them >:(
Really lush, Yuet. May have missed it, but did you not cover them?
The ones you sent me are great!
Tim , yes they are the ones that I send to you! ;)
Everyyear I only used the strawberry nest to cover it. To stop the butterflies lay their eggs on it! Seem working okay ;)
But this year seem the rabbits are getting their share! So I have to fence it all round instead of cover it!
I've never known the b'flies go for 'oriental' veg. Flea beetles, yes.
Rabbits? Not with us, thankfully, but on the allotments, yes.
Sowed some chinese cabbage last night - OH loves the stuff. The great thing about the oriental greens is that they can be sown in July! (OK, other things can be sown too but I'm still behind on my de-stoning, manuring etc for the spring cabbage!)
I've just gorn and ordered some seen from vivaverde (thanks for the link) so should have some fresh green stuff through the winter period.