[Subversive_plot]

I vaguely recall reading about this plant before but have never grown it or eaten it.  It seems like it would mostly be a cold-weather green here.  www.reimerseeds.com carries it, and that company is likely who I will order from this year.

Is it a better raw salad green or as a cooked green?  Easy or difficult to grow? 

In the spring, would it tolerate partial shade?  I doubt I would grow it later than April, when tree leaves are still small. Most likely I would plant in the fall (early to late September, leaves would still be on the trees, but still potentially hot until mid October).

Thanks for any information.

[mumofstig]

I grew it when I still had the polytunnel, and sowed it in the early autumn, for a winter/early spring salad crop, I've never cooked it. It made a small head of leaves - the whole plant no bigger than about 4 or 5 ins across, so you need a lot of plants to make more than just the occasional salad It is mild tasting, easy, but quite slow growing and spring shade would help, it didn't like it here, once the tunnel warmed up.

[Subversive_plot]

I grew it when I still had the polytunnel, and sowed it in the early autumn, for a winter/early spring salad crop, I've never cooked it. It made a small head of leaves - the whole plant no bigger than about 4 or 5 ins across, so you need a lot of plants to make more than just the occasional salad It is mild tasting, easy, but quite slow growing and spring shade would help, it didn't like it here, once the tunnel warmed up.

Thanks! If I do go ahead and purchase, it will likely be a small crop, added to a salad that is mostly other greens.  Something to give a salad a little variety.