Still using it from first lot of Lettuce, sown 8/3!
On a similar theme-if you twist out,rather than fully pulling out,fennel they re-grow-you might not get a decent swollen stem but it makes something for garnish or the stock pot
ooh I didn't know that! Perhaps the bulb should be cut and not pulled? I will try.
I have had little baby lettuces coming up from the roots of ones I have cut off!!! Cute. Unfortunately when my son harvests he goes the whole blow and rips them out! I will have to show him a different technique I think! ;)
.....and if you cut cabbages off just below the head, leaving the stump in the ground, you can make a criss-cross in the cut stump and get four mini-cabbages. Brassicas are BRILL!!!!
wow! Are there any other vegetables that are "cut and come again"?
How long can you get broccoli for, for example??? (maybe I need to get a bit more informed about harvesting things, LOL)
well of course spinach too....the more you pluck off the biggest leaves (leaving the plant looking quite tiny) the more it grows and keeps doing so!
a wonderful thing to grow I reckon :)
chantenay is right, all the brassicas will return with interest - cabbages, kale, mustards, mizunas, sprout tops, beetroots will also repay if you use the tops for salads, agretti (anyone growing that this year?),
one year mr bunny ate my red kale down to half an inch but boy did it grow back beautifully - thank you mr bunny ;D
And don't forget the sprout tops :P :P :P
Mizuna question here ;D
Mine are sprouting flower tops. Should I cut them off and continue to use
the leaves? or should I pull the plant out?
Debs
Better lettuce idea here -
I suppose you could call this regrowth??
Marathon - 3rd pick from some very ill-tended plants.
well Tim your broccoli is certainly better than mine. sad to say mealy bugs got all of mine, keep on growing
Quote from: Debs on September 01, 2007, 08:16:30
Mizuna question here ;D
Mine are sprouting flower tops. Should I cut them off and continue to use
the leaves? or should I pull the plant out?
Debs
you can eat the lot raw or stir fry if you feel they are going over a bit or getting too tough to eat raw then sow some more as soon as possible for succession - I grow mine in cheap window boxes
thanks calendula ;)
As Chantenay says - but no need for crosses!
Will it work on my Savoys. :P ;D ;D ;D
Talk nicely!!
Yes. ;D ;D ;D
Or Not
I didn't!
Re re-growth - has anyone tried with broad beans? Have just read in Sarah Raven's 'Great Vegetable Plot' that you can cut autumn sown broad beans to 2" once they have cropped and they can regrow to give a second crop. Sounded intriguing and labour saving to me.
Several months ago I noticed lumps appearing in a neighbour's weed fabric and suggested we had a look underneath. Found a load of potatoes coming up so removed the fabric.
Turned out they were pink fir apples I'd given her in Spring 2006 which she had never harvested - just cut back the haulms and covered with the fabric. Anyway the young couple who took over the plot a couple of months ago started digging them up ( the haulms have pretty much died back) and are getting a bumper crop of Pink Firs.
Someone had mentioned the point with spuds. So I spuddled to harvest from some of my plants, by doing this, taking only the largest spuds as needed the smaller ones kept growing. !