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Somewhere along the line, we took a wrong turn with our breeding of cooking greens. Growing and thinking about Green Wave made me realize this. We breed cooking greens that are the same as our raw-eating greens. A mistake, I say. Salad greens and cooking greens should be different.
Salad greens must be mild flavored when raw because we eat them raw. So do all the bugs and slugs. This makes them hard to grow. We end up fighting pests or dumping pesticides on the plants so that there will be something left for us. But cooking greens don't have to be edible raw. We could raise them much more easily if they weren't. When planted at the right time of year, Green Wave grows faster than the weeds.
I think Green Wave represents a superior agroecological concept for a cooking green. 'It can be eaten only by the animals that know how to cook.' Green Wave mustard fits superbly into low-input, sustainable agricultural patterns. I think we need more and better cooking greens than we have and in my own breeding work Green Wave is one of my models. – Carol Deppe, Breeding Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving.
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Somewhere along the line, we took a wrong turn with our breeding of cooking greens. Growing and thinking about Green Wave made me realize this. We breed cooking greens that are the same as our raw-eating greens. A mistake, I say. Salad greens and cooking greens should be different.
Salad greens must be mild flavored when raw because we eat them raw. So do all the bugs and slugs. This makes them hard to grow. We end up fighting pests or dumping pesticides on the plants so that there will be something left for us. But cooking greens don't have to be edible raw. We could raise them much more easily if they weren't. When planted at the right time of year, Green Wave grows faster than the weeds.
I think Green Wave represents a superior agroecological concept for a cooking green. 'It can be eaten only by the animals that know how to cook.' Green Wave mustard fits superbly into low-input, sustainable agricultural patterns. I think we need more and better cooking greens than we have and in my own breeding work Green Wave is one of my models. – Carol Deppe, Breeding Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving.