While I pastored in Canada a dear friend, the late Bert Lasher took me across the street from his house and gave me a leaf off of a Nasturtium. It was a whole new experience for me – I enjoy radishes in season (a relatively short season 😦 ) and found the leaf tasted like a mild radish. This spring I went on the hunt for this flower with a round, thick edible, green leaf – I had forgotten its name.
Found it (more than one place, once I had the name), planted (& re-planted a few spots) and they came up. Last week we were able to travel to TN with Phillip, Heather and kiddos and I took along some Nasturtium leaves – they went perfectly with her chicken salad (home-made bun 🙂 ) sandwiches.
If you like radishes or a little peppering taste in your salad raise Nasturtium next year. They like poor soil (as I read) and need little attention including watering. The blossoms are also edible (sweet at first then peppery) but I’ve not eaten many. Because, I read that the seed can be dried and ground up as pepper. I want to try that also.
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