We got our second CSA box this evening. It contained red scallions, peas, arugula, strawberries, broccoli rabe, radishes, beets, red leaf lettuce, and.... these mystery greens. Who can help?!? Might one of them be mustard greens? That was listed in the newsletter as a possibility for the box this week.
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The left one is maybe lovage... an herb, not a green.
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After browsing around a bit on Google images, I think the one of the right could be mustard greens.
http://thehotpotato.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/purple-mustard-greens-behind-natural-garden-fence.jpg
The greens pictures there are purple mustard greens.
It could also be a leaf lettuce. I'd think a mustard green would have a stringy and spiny, um, well, spine and lettuce would have a more fragile spine.
i don't know about the left one but the other side is not mustard greens as I know them. Looks like green leaf lettuce to me.
Gah! Typos! That should read "The greens pictured there..." and is in reference to the picture I posted a link to. Doh.
The one on the left looks a lot like lovage, but tastes more like a green than an herb... but I couldn't figure it out. Until today!
Someone in my CSA started a blog, and yesterday's entry was about Lamb's Quarters (aka wild spinach). I think that's the green on the left.
Check it out: http://taylorganic.blogspot.com/2008/05/lambs-quarters.html
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