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The spears may not be edible yet, but I have been enjoying their leafy tops all season long.
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I had no idea that such a common-looking vegetable could produce such lovely, delicate, lacy greenery.
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And speaking of surprising vegetable greenery, did you know that these pretty flowers...
come from another common vegetable?
Me either.
When I first spotted them, I thought I had Queen Anne's Lace growing in my garden.
And now I'm wondering... if I were to go out into the woods and pull up a Queen Anne plant, would I find that the roots look like carrots?
2 comments:
The flower of the carrot is where we get carrot seeds from. Queen Anne's Lace is also known as Wild Carrot BUT BE AWARE that there is a plant that looks much like Queen Anne's Lace which is toxic, it's called Water Hemlock. I myself would never eat the carrot from Queen Anne's Lace....just don't want to take the chance.
Missy... oh, my no! I would never just eat a random root from nature, and I did know that carrot seeds came from their blooms, I had just never actually SEEN a carrot in bloom. I did know that Water Hemlock was poisonous and looks like a carrot, but to my knowledge doesn't grow in my area.
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