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Chinese flowering green. Harvest with yellow flower buds for sweetest flavour. Entire plant edible — stem, leaves, flowers. Essential in Chinese cooking.
Brassica rapa (Yu Choy Sum)
vegetable
A fellow Brassicaceae — similar growing habits to Choy Sum
Start Choy Sum indoors about 4 weeks before your last frost, keeping seeds in cooler soil (around 10–18 °C). Seeds usually come up in around 7 days. Move seedlings out once the danger of frost has passed, in full sun, spaced about 25 cm apart. Expect to harvest in roughly 45 days.
Keep track of the seeds you own.
Water: Medium · Height: 35 cm · Soil: Moist, fertile, well-draining
Coccinellidae
The one predator here where the adults hunt as hard as the larvae do.
Aleyrodidae
A puff of white when you brush the leaf, and stickiness underneath.
These three thrive alongside Choy Sum — and alongside each other.
