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Rocket Salad Leaves

everoseveros Posts: 55

Hi everyone.  Does anyone know what rocket salad leaves should taste like?  I recently sowed some seeds of rocket & had a lovely crop.  I tasted it when it was quite short & when it had grown much taller & it was quite bitter.  I've now consigned it to the compost bin.  Thanks for any help.

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  • peppery lovely in a salad of mixed leaves .image

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,617

    Even better in a BLTimage

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    They can get a bit stronger and a more sharp if the plant starts bolting and many people don't like the taste but I don't mind it at all. I grow wild rocket and love it in with other salad leaves - same as flowering rose image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • everoseveros Posts: 55

    I agree flowering rose.  I seem to remember when I grew rocket before that it was peppery which I liked.  Couldn't understand this time.  I've now sown a winter mixture that I sounds good.

  • I think even a lot of reputable seed companies are selling seeds which are not true. I bought a well-known tomato seed meant to be cherry sized. Some plants have produced correctly but some are like golf balls! All growing in the same pots side by side so same watering and feeding etc. I am growing rocket but at the moment the seedlings look like clover!

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