I love the idea of using the leaves of the ‘Green’ plant as the perfect salad garnish. I’ll even use the leaves to decorate a salad sandwich.
The green leaves are actually a plant that grows in the Mediterranean region and in the Middle East. This plant has been used as a culinary or medicinal vegetable for hundreds of years and is used to treat fever, rheumatism, and a few other ailments.
In fact, the leaves of a species of the genus Plantago are used in the traditional medicine of the region of the Mediterranean. A popular practice among the Greeks and other Greeks is to chop this plant into small pieces and simmer it with a little olive oil and garlic for a salad or a soup.
We’re at the point where someone decided it would be a good idea to grow a couple of these in our kitchen garden. You can see them growing in the garden in the picture above. We’ve had them for a while now and we love them! They’re so easy to cook, just chop them up, mix with some olive oil and salt, and let them soak for a bit before cooking.
We are also talking about how easy it is to cook the greens. We just chop them up and throw them in a pot of water, salt, and olive oil. Weve set up a few dishes that just call for the greens and it takes about 5 minutes to cook them.
We had some of these cuttings in the back yard last fall and theyve grown so big, but we never really had much luck with them in the kitchen. I think they were more of an issue for us in the past because of the heat, but our recent garden is much more drought tolerant. We also have some succulents in the back, but theyve been growing ever so much slower than the greens.
The problem with succulents in the kitchen is that they are usually a little too “green” to really have much of an effect, but in our case, especially if they’re planted in the same container and watered regularly, they can really add some color to the kitchen.
One of the cool things about greensboro is that it’s totally green. It’s not a completely grassless environment, but we are definitely looking at using at least a few grasses as we go. The grasses might not get all the rain that greens do, especially with the drought, but if a grass is planted in the same container as a succulent, the two will grow together because they both get the same amount of sunlight.
There are two reasons to prefer grasses over the more common green plants. One is that grasses require less water. The other is that grasses are less invasive when planted in a container. For example, you don’t have to worry about the grass popping up in your laundry hamper or clogging up your drain, because the grass is just going to grow out of the container.
If you’re going to be planting grass in your yard, you may want to check the soil to make sure it’s not too nutrient-depleted, because the grass will grow very quickly if it’s too dry. If you’re going to be planting grass in a container, you can always plant it in a pot with soil from an adjacent garden.