Thursday, January 26, 2012

Home Farm X No Harm: Organic Choy Sum

I went through a compilation of Asian Green Veg

Onto Dining Table X Into Data Table: Asian Green Vegetables

simply because of this post

 

Choy Sum / Choi Sum / 菜心

  • literally means “Veggie heart”
  • Chinese flowering cabbage
  • Sawi in Malay language
  • a relative of Pak Choy (it has got a lot of names too)
  • Chinese soup green
  • Brassica parachinensis
  • a member of the Mustard family
  • 菜薹、广东菜薹、广东菜

 

2011.12.25

sprouting baby veggiesprouting baby veggie

 

2012.01.15

harvesting our veggiegreen patch like this is simply a delightful sight

 

then..

Choy sum soup

 

we harvested all

unfortunately half were buried back into the soil

(that’s how nice we treat our plants)

 

so these are considered the lucky one

not ending up on dining table

because there were some

insect-egg-like particles

stuck on the leaves

they could be removed through thorough washing

however my dad thought

they looked too disgusting

 

and one more thing

my dad hardly believe in organic veg

sold in the market..

 

to him

this is the real organic stuffs

and it doesn’t even have to cost much money

 

and my dad used to complain

I spent loads time

farming in Smurfs’ Village

should have divert the time and effort here

 

happy farming!