Organic salad greens from Bountiful Gardens- arrugula,rocket,mizuna,magentaspreen,strawberry spinach

These are fine additions to salad. Among the easiest plants to grow, most of these have retained the vigor and nutritional value of their wild ancestors. In addition to these consider orach, the spinach offerings, chicory, endive, the Asian greens, parsley, amaranth and quinoa. In the herbs try borage, burnet, fennel, and lovage.

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VAM-2030

Red leaf Amaranth, Tampala, Calaloo

Amaranthus tricolor
Large medium-green tender tasty leaves. The oval leaves are overlaid with burgundy red for a coleus-like appearance. Delicious cooked, in our experience it tastes like spinach but without the oxalic acid or as much fiber. Not good raw. Whole plant must be harvested - picking leaf by leaf it gets bitter. Best to sow in succession. Heat tolerant. Multi-stalked, 18-20" tall. 300 seeds.

$1.95

VGR-3740

Arugula, Rocket, Greens, Salad

Eruca sativa
Fast and easy in most soils, and cold-hardy. Likes some water. Abundant producer of spicy, tender, young leaves and flowers which are eaten in mixed salads. 200 seeds.

$1.75

VGR-3710

Creasy Greens, American Cress, Greens, Specialty

Barbverna
Exceedingly easy to grow but does like moisture and some shade. Leaves have a peppery flavor like watercress. Slow to bolt. 300 seeds.

$1.75

VGR-3705

Wrinkled Crinkled Crumpled Cress

Barbverna
Exceedingly easy to grow but does like moisture and some shade. Leaves have a peppery flavor like watercress. Slow to bolt. 300 seeds.

$1.75

VGR-3780

Magentaspreen Greens (Lambs Quarters)

Chenopodium album
Magenta Lamb’s Quarters – Another delicious weed, but be careful - it grows to 6 feet and re-seeds readily - keep it from going to seed. The leaves have a lovely magenta color. The entire plant is quite edible with a mild flavor raw or cooked. Stems can steamed or boiled, can be ground for meal or flour. Related to the super-grain quinoa. Easy to grow. 240 seeds.

$1.95

VGR-3790

Malabar Spinach Greens, Specialty

Basella rubra
Not actually spinach, but a good hot weather substitute. A very unusual productive and delicious Asian vegetable. Thick, dark-green leaves provide abundant tasty greens throughout the summer when spinach will no longer grow: heat tolerant and vigorous. Handsome plants have an attractive red stem. Vining habit - provide an adequate trellis for growth up to 6’. Delicious mild taste equally good in salads and cooking. Young stems good in salads. 50 seeds.

$2.50

MMU-6390

Mild Kingdom Mustard Greens Mix

Brassica juncea
A tremendous range of mild mustards from Peters Seed and Research. Greens of every shade and about 30 % purples, with a wide range of leaf shapes also. Many are selected for cold and disease resistance as well as mild sweet flavor.

$3.25

VGR-3720

Miners Lettuce Greens, Salad

Montia perfoliata
In my childhood this was a wild plant I delighted in finding and always ate greedily. Very tender juicy leaves with a very mild, buttery flavor. An excellent Winter crop rich in Vitamin C. Adapts well to greenhouses, or extra-early spring sowing. Eat entire plant, stems, flowers, and all. 200 seeds.

$1.95

VGR-3400

Minutina, Erba Stella, Staghorn, Specialty Greens

Plantago coronopus
Crunchy, succulent leaves make a great addition to salads. Ultra-hardy. Minutina, like miner’s lettuce, corn salad, and mizuna, stands all winter, even in Maine, in an unheated greenhouse. (See Four-Season Harvest in our book section). Small plant makes a rosette of slender leaves, cut and forked like a stag’s horns. Easy to grow, takes very little space, regrows after cutting. Flower buds edible, too.

$1.75

VGR-3670

Mizuna Greens, Asian

Brassica rapa
Thousand Veined Mustard. Japanese non-heading leaf type. Many slender white ¼” stalks, with narrow dark-green, feathery, deeply-cut 12” leaves. The stalks and leaves are very mild when young and are often used in salad mixes. Vigorous plants grow quickly to 12”-24” and 2-4 pounds. Cold resistant Bolts in heat. 80 seeds.

$1.75

MNO-6400

Salad Mix (Mesclun)

A mix of lettuces and other salad greens with various colors and shapes. Plant one packet and harvest a salad! Often planted very densely and cut down all at once for baby greens.

$2.25

VGR-3730

Purslane Greens, Salad

Name: Purslane Latin: Portulaca oleracea Culture: HHA/Ht 2’/Spac 12 / Area Descr: A low-growing perennial like the common garden weed. Does well in any garden soil. Needs moisture to germinate, but once established can tolerate severe drought. Fleshy stems and leaves good raw or cooked. Ayurvedic herb. 200 seeds. Days: 50 Seeds: 200 Source: C

$1.95

VGR-3830

Strawberry Spinach, Beetberry Greens, Specialty

Chenopod. capitatum
Strawberry blite. Annual. Not actually spinach, but a good hot weather substitute. At least 400 years old, an ancient plant popular throughout Europe. Re-discovered at various monasteries. Similar to Lambs Quarters in habit, only smaller at 1 1/2’. Triangular, toothed leaves are thinner than spinach, very nutritious. and high in vitamins. Tender shoots are used raw or cooked. At each leaf axil there is an abundance of small sweet, strawberry-like fruits which some say resemble mulberries. Nice fresh, cooked, or in jellies. Like other Chenopodiaceae, it may re-seed vigorously and/or become invasive. 90 seeds.

$1.95

VGR-3840

Texsel Greens

Brassica carinata
A fast-growing, mild-flavored green from Ethiopia. Very useful catch-crop, intercrop, or early greens, used for salad when young, cooked later on. It is one of the few brassicas that can be grown in gardens afflicted with clubroot, where cabbage, broccoli, etc. cannot thrive. Tolerant of heat and cold, but needs fertile, moisture-retentive soil--will bolt if allowed to dry out.

$1.95

VEN-3572

Frisee de Meaux Endive, organic

Cichorium endiva
Frisee de Meaux. An heirloom triple-cut curly endive from France, where Dominique Guillet has braved official persecution to save these traditional varieties from extinction. This is the feathery, finely branched pale leaf you see in salad mix in winter. Grown like lettuce but grows more slowly and is more frost-hardy. Big heads with blanched hearts. 180 seeds.

$1.75

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