The tenants in our apartment building have our first garden this year. In our first trip to the nursery, we bought half a dozen trays of miscellaneous greens called "mesclun" -- which, it turns out, is a gardening term meaning "miscellaneous greens." We're about to harvest some leaves from these plants, and before we eat them, I would like to know what "miscellaneous greens" they really are.
This first plant has a strong-tasting leaf, possibly a type of mustard:
The second I think I have identified as something called "spinach mustard". I also suspect that we've let it grow too long without harvesting already, and that the little cluster in the center is the plant ready to go to flower.
#3 here, I have no clue. (The white in the background, btw, is crushed eggshells, a contribution from one of my fellow tenants.)
Fourth and final unidentified "mesclun" on the left (with a few leaves of the spinach mustard in the upper right of the photo).
If you can help identify these, please also advise on care, how/when to prune (harvest) them, whether they are best in salad or in some other use... heck, I'll take any advice at all.
Thanks. :).
(You can see any of these at a larger scale using the slideshow, top right.)
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Comments: 5
1. Looks like Mustard Giant red
2. Some type of Asian mustard, I think
3. Mizuna
4. ?
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