UPDATE: When reading labels on the plants you purchase, beware they may not be correct.
I posted recently about my “Bok choy or broccoli” experience where I purchased some young broccoli plants only to kneel by my garden bed and discover the tag read: Bok choy. At the time, I blamed it on my aging eyes, my reluctance to give in and accept reality, and buy those pair of eyeglasses. Clearly, it was time.
Always one to look for the bright side, I decided to seek recipes for Bok choy, considering I now had half-dozen of the greens. However, while strolling through my garden this week, I discovered something incredible. Those Bok choy plants that I claimed appeared amazingly similar to broccoli plants? They ARE broccoli.
This little button is proof-positive! Bok choy does NOT produce buds like this one.
Hip, hip, hooray–I don’t have to eat Bok choy! I’m sure it’s delicious, but I have a rule in my garden. “Grow what you’ll eat.” Not what’s easy or looks pretty, but what you’ll actually eat. Let me tell you… It’s a gloomy day when you walk out to your garden, only to discover the cucumbers that were flourishing a week ago are now rotting on the vine because no one cared enough to harvest them. Read: eat them.
I know. Sad. Awful. A waste! So admittedly I’m thankful for my broccoli discovery, but do take this as a word to the wise. Trust your instincts. “If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, quacks and waddles like a duck, it’s a duck.” At least in my case, it was!
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