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Post by oxbowfarm on Jun 3, 2014 12:39:07 GMT -5
I have some of this growing, highly recommended by trixtrax, and he gave me the seed. Wondering about other's experiences? I've seen mention in a few places online that it is highly attacked by Japanese beetle. I'm interested in high nutrition, summer salad crops, I can usually get my Ithaca customers trained to anything green sooner or later, if it is presented to them properly. |
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Post by raymondo on Jun 3, 2014 17:25:14 GMT -5
I have seeds but have yet to grow it. I wonder if it's mucilaginous like some of the other mallows. I've grown Jews mallow (melokhiya), a relative, and it is very prone to chewing insect attack.
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Post by steev on Jun 3, 2014 19:09:35 GMT -5
I grew molokhiya twice; didn't notice any predation; first year, it was fairly compact; second year, very sparse and rangy; same seed packet. It's my back-up when okra doesn't produce, for thickening things. Very productive of seed, which I'll try as a spice when I get to it.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jun 3, 2014 19:15:35 GMT -5
Molokhiya is in the Malvaceae but a different genus-Corchorus olitorius.
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Post by steev on Jun 3, 2014 21:19:45 GMT -5
Didn't seem like salad, no more than cheese-weed, another mallow; both too coarse for raw food. Now I wonder about hollyhock, though I doubt I need that much dietary fiber (it may be that opinion differs).
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Post by trixtrax on Jun 13, 2014 20:56:45 GMT -5
The salad mallow that I gave oxbow and received from orflo some years back is mild, lacking in fiber, and lettuce-like. There are some forms, like a form I've seen from Korea that are tougher
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