Clinton News-Record, 1979-04-26, Page 49Try some
mustard
greens
What are your basic tossed
salad ingredients? Lettuce,
radish, tomatoes, green onions,
occasionally spinach or endive in
season and a pinch of fresh dill or
other herbs, right?
Very few gardeners know how
good mustard greens taste in
salads. Tender, young mustard
leaves have a peppery nip and a
mild, distinctive taste ap-
preciated by almost all ad-
venturous eaters. Substitute
chopped mustard greens for half
the lettuce in salads.
Mustard greens have been held
back by being typed, as a
Southern vegetable for sim-
mering alone u. with pork. They
are delicious cooked but they are
not just a Southern vegetable.
Quick growing mustard greens
will thrive anywhere i,n the USA if
planted to mature 'during cool
weather.
The name "mustard greens" is
unfortunate. The greens don't
have a mustard flavor. Con-
diment mustard is made from
mustard seeds from a different
species. The only similarity
between the taste of greens and
prepared mustard is in the mild
peppery tang.
Mustard greens will mature in
about 45 _days from planting.
Your first harvest will be ready
in only 30 days, in the form of
surplus seedlings thinned out of
the row. Young mustard plants
are classed as "semi -hardy" and
can be planted 3 to 4 weeks prior
to the average date of the last
killing frost in the spring. Late
summer is a good time for
seeding a fall crop.
Three kinds of mustard greens
are usually available — smooth
leaf, curly leaf and a variety with
broad stems preferred for
oriental cooking. Smooth -leaved
varieties win out where the soils
are sandy because the leaves are
easier to wash. The curly -leaved
types are superior for salads;
they fluff up tossed salads much
like curly endive.
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70° - 80°
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