Barbarea verna
Family: Brassicaceae
Biennial. Native to southern and eastern United States, England
and Germany. To make a pot of Creasy Greens, you “pick ‘em clean”
(that is, without a lot of other junk in there which you’ll have to pick
out or try to wash out later.) Then you put them in a pot with a
little water and cook over slow heat, along with some really greasy meat
of some kind, and then you eat it all at once, with cornbread. Prevents
both starvation and scurvy. Cultivation: Extremely easy.
They can be direct-seeded in a row in the garden in spring. You can
make multiple cuttings, especially during the cold months, as hunger dictates.
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