Was purchasing seeds for winter crops online and recalled this video from a few months back. Mache (corn salad, lamb's lettuce) is a great cold weather lettuce alternative - can't describe the flavour but its delicious. Minutina is an edible plantain (not to be confused with the banana-like plantain), less fibrous that it's weedy cousins. Succulent baby sun rose is similar to purslane, plus it has pretty, edible flowers and makes an excellent ground cover. Young leaves of dock, flatweed (catsear), prickly lettuce, lamb's quarter, land cress and sow thistle are all weeds which make acceptable lettuce substitutes - high in oxalates though. So many "spinaches" - one I don't recall in the video is Malabar spinach. It's nearly indestructible, self-seeds in the garden and in a temperate climate (like Sydney) can grow all year round in a sunny, protected position - so you're never short of leaves. Chicory is another easy to grow green that can be used as a lettuce substitute. All that being said, mostly I tend to use wombok, rocket and red cabbage as lettuce alternatives due to plentiful supply.
Hi, here in SE Qld I grow Sambung, Okinawa spinach, Brazilian spinach and mushroom plant. Warrigal greens also, but they really need to be blanched first as they are high in oxalates. I use a lot of dandelion greens, the younger less bitter leaves in salads and the larger leaves in stir fries (my dandelions are huge, so I hope to harvest the roots to make dandelion coffee this year, and harvest the yellow flowers to make a golden cordial- it will be my first attempt- see how it goes!). There is also a pest plant in my area that is hard to get rid of, but its leaves are great in salads and the larger leaves in stir-fries - Madeira vine. I also use betel leaves as green wraps. Growing some Asian greens for more variety - pak choy, tatsoi, mizuna. Some more traditional European greens I grow are endive, just keep picking the outside leaves, they have a little bit of bitterness. I am growing some chicory for the first time - I'll see how that goes. And you've convinced me, I'll give rainbow chard a go. Love your channel. Sorry to hear you lost your dad.
I so love Nasturtium, in BNE 2 crops per year and soo many ways to use them, from "poor man's capers" to salad to pesto. And Nasturtium volunteer with a passion and are great for "guerilla gardening"
I use sweet potato greens quite a bit. My favorites though are Okinawan spinach and longevity spinach. I don't know if either would be a good to grow in Perth. Suffice it to say it's much drier than where I live. Here in central Florida though, they both grow fairly easily. Also i love to use fresh Betel leaf in beefy stews and cranberry hibiscus in salads. The latter also makes a nice ornamental, even though it's top heavy and prone to toppling over in a pot.
Thank you Holly! I just discovered your channel and you've given me so many ideas as I'm trying to start an edible garden but wasn't sure what to grow. Thank you for sharing ❤
Very informative video, thanks I have learnt about so many new salads . I have used rockets , blackcurrant leaves , and dill leaves, including some of your list.
We're growing horseradish, and the leaves are edible, if you like the taste of mustard greens. The leaves of hostas are edible. If you have a mulberry tree or linden / basswood tree, the leaves of those are also edible, preferably picked young.
Funny thing about lettuce price going up is as a market gardener once said: Salad greens farmers would go bankrupt if people realized they were just weeds!
This was a great video! We use quite a few of those in our salads but I learned some new ones. Sometimes I'll also add fennel fronds or young grape leaves. It just depends on what I have growing well at the moment.
Great video. I'm on the east coast and have been growing silverbeet and spinach for years. I didn't know so many had oxalates. I love spinach/ One leafy green I use is broccoli leaves. It is a bit like Kale. When using Kale I find the Russian Red the best as it has a big broad leaf. Also grown Dwarf Blue Kale. It goes well in stir frys. My friend Mary Ware, from Marty's Garden, introduced me to Egyptian climbing spinach. It is also a plant with oxalates. Like your advice, he said to cook it and you are right to use it. Hoping to see more vids. Thinking of you and your family.
Tuscan kale is my new favourite it is less rough I think. I have a climbing spinach too I just admit I don’t eat it that often but it is very ornamental 🌱 Thanks for watching!
You said cabbage. Just want to double on that and say wombok or Chinese cabbage. Great sub for lettuce and can be cooked too. So it’s more versatile. I haven’t grown it yet but plan to regrow soon from store bought
Hey Holly, Another tremendous plant to grow for salad is SORREL! IT IS SO DELICIOUS!!! and very easy to grow. I really like it as it grows anywhere. I have it down the driveway, in pots and garden. It has an interesting sour taste and looks a bit like baby beetroot leaves. The best thing is that the bugs don't go near it. Holly I also noticed that your artichokes look great. (I think it was your channel) anyway, any tips for keeping them alive. I tried the beer trap for slugs, didn't work, tried rough edged leaves ànd sticks and eggshell and even need oil. Some bug probably slug, snail or caterpillar is devouring them. Gave nourishing tea, coffee and seaweed to encourage growth, at various intervals but they are not thriving. My eggplants are not doing the best either. Any tips? Glad to see you are happy back in your garden at Perth.
Lettuce and rocket seeds are planted 🥰🥰🥰 I have some celery greens I have been trying. Luckily the price of lettuce here is not too high but I’m so excited to grow my own anyway!
Most of the greens you mentioned can be processed into pesto (Yum!), though some will need to be thrown in with the noodles to cook before serving to deal with oxalic acid.
Thankyou for giving me the kick up the bum I needed to go out & pick some salad greens! The weather has been so nasty the last few weeks I totally slacked off! I now have a nice mix of parsley, baby rocket (leaves & flowers), nasturtium leaves & leaves from a random witloff plant that sprung up in one of my wicking beds. On that note, I've had a few random lettuce plants spring up in my lawn, maybe I should let them go to seed & share them with the neighbourhood lol! 😆😄
You can really get a lot once you start picking from all the different plants!! Haha lettuce in the lawn is a great thing 😂 I have nasturtiums in my lawn 😅
Which lettuce substitutes do you use? 🥬👇
As a lettuce substitute I use dandelions. You can eat the flowers and the young leaves.
Tokyo Bekana is a great lettuce substitute.
Was purchasing seeds for winter crops online and recalled this video from a few months back. Mache (corn salad, lamb's lettuce) is a great cold weather lettuce alternative - can't describe the flavour but its delicious. Minutina is an edible plantain (not to be confused with the banana-like plantain), less fibrous that it's weedy cousins. Succulent baby sun rose is similar to purslane, plus it has pretty, edible flowers and makes an excellent ground cover. Young leaves of dock, flatweed (catsear), prickly lettuce, lamb's quarter, land cress and sow thistle are all weeds which make acceptable lettuce substitutes - high in oxalates though. So many "spinaches" - one I don't recall in the video is Malabar spinach. It's nearly indestructible, self-seeds in the garden and in a temperate climate (like Sydney) can grow all year round in a sunny, protected position - so you're never short of leaves. Chicory is another easy to grow green that can be used as a lettuce substitute. All that being said, mostly I tend to use wombok, rocket and red cabbage as lettuce alternatives due to plentiful supply.
Miami spinach aka samba lettuce, a- aka sisso spinach
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I LOVE rocket! I honestly will eat it over just about any other green. :D
Hi, here in SE Qld I grow Sambung, Okinawa spinach, Brazilian spinach and mushroom plant. Warrigal greens also, but they really need to be blanched first as they are high in oxalates. I use a lot of dandelion greens, the younger less bitter leaves in salads and the larger leaves in stir fries (my dandelions are huge, so I hope to harvest the roots to make dandelion coffee this year, and harvest the yellow flowers to make a golden cordial- it will be my first attempt- see how it goes!). There is also a pest plant in my area that is hard to get rid of, but its leaves are great in salads and the larger leaves in stir-fries - Madeira vine. I also use betel leaves as green wraps. Growing some Asian greens for more variety - pak choy, tatsoi, mizuna. Some more traditional European greens I grow are endive, just keep picking the outside leaves, they have a little bit of bitterness. I am growing some chicory for the first time - I'll see how that goes. And you've convinced me, I'll give rainbow chard a go. Love your channel. Sorry to hear you lost your dad.
I forgot to add Mustard greens, broccoli greens and steamed pumpkin leaves.
I so love Nasturtium, in BNE 2 crops per year and soo many ways to use them, from "poor man's capers" to salad to pesto. And Nasturtium volunteer with a passion and are great for "guerilla gardening"
In Scotland I grow pea shoots and celery on the windowsill in winter.
Yum!! Love this!!
I use sweet potato greens quite a bit. My favorites though are Okinawan spinach and longevity spinach. I don't know if either would be a good to grow in Perth. Suffice it to say it's much drier than where I live. Here in central Florida though, they both grow fairly easily. Also i love to use fresh Betel leaf in beefy stews and cranberry hibiscus in salads. The latter also makes a nice ornamental, even though it's top heavy and prone to toppling over in a pot.
Thanks Holly I really like your videos. I am currently growing lettuce and chives.
Thanks Simon! Those are a delicious combo 🙂🌱
Thank you Holly! I just discovered your channel and you've given me so many ideas as I'm trying to start an edible garden but wasn't sure what to grow. Thank you for sharing ❤
Yay! Welcome it’s so good to have you here! 🌱
Very informative video, thanks
I have learnt about so many new salads .
I have used rockets , blackcurrant leaves , and dill leaves, including some of your list.
Great list, the only other one I can think of is Claytonia. I'm going to try growing it when it cools down.
Yes thats another great option!
I love this video. I love using nasturtium, chard, and I just discovered purselane. Thank you Holly!
Yay! I’m so happy you like it 🥬🍃 so fun discovering new things to eat!
We're growing horseradish, and the leaves are edible, if you like the taste of mustard greens. The leaves of hostas are edible. If you have a mulberry tree or linden / basswood tree, the leaves of those are also edible, preferably picked young.
I haven’t tried Hostas yet but they do grow well in shady spots so would like to try them!
Funny thing about lettuce price going up is as a market gardener once said:
Salad greens farmers would go bankrupt if people realized they were just weeds!
😂😂 it’s actually so strange what trends. I just can’t with the baby vegetables..harvesting them so early you get 1/8th of the potential food 😅
This was a great video! We use quite a few of those in our salads but I learned some new ones. Sometimes I'll also add fennel fronds or young grape leaves. It just depends on what I have growing well at the moment.
Yay!! 💚 the more diverse the better 🌱🌱🌱🥬🥬🥬
Garden looks great there
Will be bursting come spring! 🌱🌱
@@SustainableHolly I bet!
Good to see you get to visit your parents
Great video. I'm on the east coast and have been growing silverbeet and spinach for years. I didn't know so many had oxalates. I love spinach/ One leafy green I use is broccoli leaves. It is a bit like Kale. When using Kale I find the Russian Red the best as it has a big broad leaf. Also grown Dwarf Blue Kale. It goes well in stir frys. My friend Mary Ware, from Marty's Garden, introduced me to Egyptian climbing spinach. It is also a plant with oxalates. Like your advice, he said to cook it and you are right to use it. Hoping to see more vids. Thinking of you and your family.
Tuscan kale is my new favourite it is less rough I think. I have a climbing spinach too I just admit I don’t eat it that often but it is very ornamental 🌱 Thanks for watching!
This is so insane to hear. In the Netherlands we pay under 2 euro per head for lettuce.
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I love using Bhok Choy. Thanks for all your wonderful tips. You are much appreciated. Take care. 🌸
You said cabbage. Just want to double on that and say wombok or Chinese cabbage. Great sub for lettuce and can be cooked too. So it’s more versatile. I haven’t grown it yet but plan to regrow soon from store bought
Yes! I haven’t grown it yet but it’s definitely on my list to 🌱🌱
hi holly! These are very interesting videos. I hope you are doing better! Love from Sam and Simone xx
Hey Holly,
Another tremendous plant to grow for salad is SORREL! IT IS SO DELICIOUS!!! and very easy to grow. I really like it as it grows anywhere. I have it down the driveway, in pots and garden.
It has an interesting sour taste and looks a bit like baby beetroot leaves. The best thing is that the bugs don't go near it.
Holly I also noticed that your artichokes look great. (I think it was your channel) anyway, any tips for keeping them alive.
I tried the beer trap for slugs, didn't work, tried rough edged leaves ànd sticks and eggshell and even need oil. Some bug probably slug, snail or caterpillar is devouring them. Gave nourishing tea, coffee and seaweed to encourage growth, at various intervals but they are not thriving. My eggplants are not doing the best either. Any tips?
Glad to see you are happy back in your garden at Perth.
Lettuce and rocket seeds are planted 🥰🥰🥰 I have some celery greens I have been trying. Luckily the price of lettuce here is not too high but I’m so excited to grow my own anyway!
yay! Taste and nutrient contents are sooo much better homegrown 🥬🥬🥬
Thanks Holly - I use a lot of those but not all currently - will have to give those others a try!!
Yay! Thanks for joining in the live chat 💬 and welcome to my channel 🌱
Most of the greens you mentioned can be processed into pesto (Yum!), though some will need to be thrown in with the noodles to cook before serving to deal with oxalic acid.
Nasturtium, chickweeds and plantains ftw :)
Thankyou for giving me the kick up the bum I needed to go out & pick some salad greens! The weather has been so nasty the last few weeks I totally slacked off! I now have a nice mix of parsley, baby rocket (leaves & flowers), nasturtium leaves & leaves from a random witloff plant that sprung up in one of my wicking beds. On that note, I've had a few random lettuce plants spring up in my lawn, maybe I should let them go to seed & share them with the neighbourhood lol! 😆😄
You can really get a lot once you start picking from all the different plants!! Haha lettuce in the lawn is a great thing 😂 I have nasturtiums in my lawn 😅
@@SustainableHolly So do I, as well as parsley lol! 🤣😂
Holly, is it better to plant lettuce & rocket seeds directly into the garden? Or to sprout them first in seed trays?
I would plant lettuce in trays first as it can be a little sensitive but I usually plant rocket direct. It’s pretty hardy and vigorous 🌱🌱
Ok cool, thanks! 😊
Thanks for the great ideas! I'm currently prepping for my next growing season, so this was perfect timing
yay! all the best for your garden prepping 🙂🥬
Turnip Greens
yes! 🌱
Wonderful suggestions and tips.
Thank you 🥬
Good 🌹💖👏👏
Thanks for watching! 🥬
Thank you so much. You are a great help for me. I'm going to plant some seeds right now. 👍❤️🥬🥗
Yay what seeds are you going to plant? 🌱
@@SustainableHolly I just sow spinach, lettuce, Romana, kale, cabbage, leeks, spring onions and beets.