Comments on: I Bet You Didn’t Know This Plant Was Edible…

By: Alice

Alice — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:32:48 +0000

Try 1 gallon containers in a milk crate: change out and shift around the containers. A regular milk crate is about 12 inches by 12 inches inside measure, and will hold 4 gallon containers the size of milk jugs. I’ve even grown small cabbages in them (picture ornate green rose shapes – lovely).

By: Laura Hodge

Laura Hodge — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:23:37 +0000

Well, I googled sour grass and, sure enough, that’s what it’s called. The pictures that came up made my mouth water. BTW…it’s an oxalis.

By: Laura Hodge

Laura Hodge — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:21:14 +0000

I love to wow my guests with summer salads that are garnished with rose petals, nasturtiums, and pretty little blue and white borage flowers. (Admittedly, the borage is a pain to pick and clean, but it makes the salad awesome…tastes kind of like cucumeber.) Oh, and, my favorite thing to hunt down is something we called “sour grass” when I was a kid. If anybody knows what it really is I would love to know, too. It grows in clusters with thick-stemmed single stalks that can get to about 8 to 10 inches tall with a small yellow flower on the top. The stems are wonderfully edible, with a tang like a lemon. chop the stems and pick the flowers for a salad and everybody will want to know what you did to make this one so tasty.

By: SFaith

SFaith — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:14:43 +0000

Tulips and kale is a surprising combo. And one I never would have thought of. The yellow tulips with the purple kale is pretty but I would bet that many other color combinations would work as well or better.

By: Fern

Fern — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:06:11 +0000

Kylee & Melanie–This must be a regional difference, because artemisias like ‘Powis Castle’ are lush and nice looking year round here. And I first got the idea to combine tulips with kale from The Bountiful Container by McGee & Stuckey. Kale is grown in mild climates like mine from late Fall until the end of Spring.

By: Fern

Fern — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:02:50 +0000

Shari–The flower petals are the part you eat, not the bulbs themselves. They taste kind of like peas.

By: melanie watts

melanie watts — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:56:53 +0000

From the time the snow melts, mid April to mid May there is a variety of tulip blooming, until the beginning of June, in my zone 3 garden. However, unless you started you kale indoors, in March, it’s size would be so insignificant it would not make a nice contrast with a yellow tulip, same with the Artemesias. It’s a great idea though, picking plants that bloom at the same times with an eye to their colour combinations. Everyones garden is different. The best way to do this is to keep a day to day dairy of what is blooming in your garden, for a whole year. With this knowledge you will be able to make sensible decisions about planting colour combinations.

By: Kylee from Our Little Acre

Kylee from Our Little Acre — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:11:55 +0000

These combos are definitely for containers, because in the garden, the tulips are long gone by the time the kale is fully grown or the artemisia has grown enough to look like anything. At least that’s how it is here in zone 5!

Pretty combos, though. And I love the photo of the squirrel!

By: shari

shari — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:35:04 +0000

Are you serious? Tulips are edible for humans? I’ve always heard the bulbs are toxic (if for no other reason than the fungicides they are dusted with). Surely no one should eat tulips they’ve not grown since commercial growers use all sorts of chemical poisons. But imagine the salads you could make, the glorious colors. What do tulips taste like? Do you know? Should they be steamed first? And most important of all, where do you find bizarre information like this?