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Can we eat "unripe"/immature cabbage/kale leaves?
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cooking-mama
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Ive returned from holiday to find my cabbage leaves very big and very holey:mad:...they are like blinkin doileys!!,however they are just great big loose leaves,no sign of them firming into cabbages,kale is similar but doesnt seem to have been attacked so much..
im thinking about trying to salvage what i can and using the raised bed for something else..would it be safe to eat these unripe/immature veg leaves?,sorry dunno how else to describe them.
PS,also my radish foliage has grown over a foot high and flowering,are these radishes no longer edible now?
thanks.(first time growing anything.:o
im thinking about trying to salvage what i can and using the raised bed for something else..would it be safe to eat these unripe/immature veg leaves?,sorry dunno how else to describe them.
PS,also my radish foliage has grown over a foot high and flowering,are these radishes no longer edible now?
thanks.(first time growing anything.:o
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Week 10,total weightloss is now 13.5lbs Week 11 STSweek 14(I think)..-2, total loss now 1 stone exactly
GOT TO TARGET..1/2lb under now weigh 10st 6.5(lost 1st 3.5lbs)
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Should be fine to eat the cabbage leaves etc...I would give them a good wash, shred them up finely and treat like spring greens. They may or may not taste good, but they won't poison you either. Try a small amount first...if no good, put them on the compost heap.
Once radish plants start to flower, the radish is usually rather woody and inedible ....but pull one up and have alook.0 -
You can use the resulting radish seeds as "sprouting seeds", never done it, but seems to be an option
The cabbage / kale may be a bit strong tasting, but perfectly edibleEight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens0 -
we used the very outside leaves of our savoys and was gutted whilst chopping them, all i could smell was grass BUT as the leaves were cooking that typical cabbage smell came and it was so tasty.
Can't wait for the real thing0
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