It would be a great project to select Sonchus oleraceus…for new improved yielding and special forms like was done with wild chicory aIt would be a great project to select Sonchus oleraceus…for new improved yielding and special forms like was done with wild chicory and other vegetables… Last winter somebody found seed of an amazing frilly sow thistle being sold in an on-line chinese vegetabe catalogue….too good to be true…I should have noticed that the seed weren’t Sonchus when I sowed them…it seems it’s just an endive :( Lost in translation?
The seed packet….The resulting plant.The flower stemI had seed left from the Chinese packet (right) and compared with common sow thistle seed collected in my garden…
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
