Hi guys,
We eat a lot of salads during the summer months (because our soild fuel raeburn gets switched up and I spend the whole summer cooking on a gas bbq and salad is quick and doesn't require boiling hence uses no gas) and I'm always try to vary them, otherwise we'd soon get bored.
I currently use various mixtures from the following selection of leaves which includes various lettuces, land cress, rocket, young beetroot and carrot leaves, swiss chard, the lovely red basil GYO gave us and spinach. However, whilst thumbng tgrough my copy of Carol Cleins' 'Grow Your Own' book, I spotted a reference to using pea shoots in salads.
So my questions today are:
1) Can I use Mangetout shoots, seeings as they're a type of pea;
2) If so exactly what part is classed as a shoot and at what stage can it be taken; and
3) If I take a few shoots, from several plants once or twice a week, will this dramatically impair the plants ability to produce new shoots and, therefore, more mangtout?
Many thanks
Reet
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We eat a lot of salads during the summer months (because our soild fuel raeburn gets switched up and I spend the whole summer cooking on a gas bbq and salad is quick and doesn't require boiling hence uses no gas) and I'm always try to vary them, otherwise we'd soon get bored.
I currently use various mixtures from the following selection of leaves which includes various lettuces, land cress, rocket, young beetroot and carrot leaves, swiss chard, the lovely red basil GYO gave us and spinach. However, whilst thumbng tgrough my copy of Carol Cleins' 'Grow Your Own' book, I spotted a reference to using pea shoots in salads.
So my questions today are:
1) Can I use Mangetout shoots, seeings as they're a type of pea;
2) If so exactly what part is classed as a shoot and at what stage can it be taken; and
3) If I take a few shoots, from several plants once or twice a week, will this dramatically impair the plants ability to produce new shoots and, therefore, more mangtout?
Many thanks
Reet
x
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