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  • #1

    What is this and has it bolted?

    Can't remember what this was (must label next time) but it's grown tall and has these flowers. Is it a lettuce?



    and what about this fine fellow? - I know this one IS a lettuce of some sort but again it's starting to flower!

    Last edited by dgunner; 22-06-2009, 05:45 PM.
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  • #2
    The photos aren't the best - but I'll give it my best shot

    Top one - is it a Pak Choi?

    Bottom one - Mizuna or a brassica that is grown as a salad....the flowers look mizuna-ish.

    Do you still have the seed packets that you sowed them from?

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    • #3
      Yeah, I agree, the white stalk/veining on the leaf of the top one looks like pak choi. I haven't a clue on the second one though, sorry.

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      • #4
        Ok - lets say the top one is Pak Choi -my seed packets just say 'spicy leaf mix'

        Should I leave it as it is then?

        What about the other one - lots of big leaves - do I pinch them off or cut the stem at the base?

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        • #5
          I've let my spicy leaves flower to attract pollinators cause I've now got lollo rossas and salad bowls for salad. I generally grow the spicys in winter indoors. My pak choi and red mustard and mizuna are yellow and white flowered.
          Hayley B

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          • #6
            Spicy salad mix tends to be oriental veg ... best grown in cool weather, or it tends to bolt. I've got mine in a shady spot, but the pak choi still bolted straight away.

            sow little and often (every 3 weeks) for a continual supply.
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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            • #7
              The flowers are nice and spicy in salads

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              • #8
                They look like they are in pots or a seed tray. If so, I would tend to cut them small and let them re-grow - you'll get several cuts from them like this. Otherwise I plant them out into the soil. I think they need more space to get big. I've grown these spicy salad mixes in the ground and got some lovely hot mustard leaves etc. - very nice!
                Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

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                • #9
                  Vicky tried the flowers after reading your post but a bit to mwaeek for me.

                  I like spicy leaves but although the area they are in are very sheltered they did bolt very quickly, but it looks pretty and I have all the other stuff to munch now
                  Hayley B

                  John Wayne's daughter, Marisa Wayne, will be competing with my Other Half, in the Macmillan 4x4 Challenge (in its 10th year) in March 2011, all sponsorship money goes to Macmillan Cancer Support, please sponsor them at http://www.justgiving.com/Mac4x4TeamDuke'

                  An Egg is for breakfast, a chook is for life

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