{"id":29091,"date":"2021-06-11T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T09:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=29091"},"modified":"2021-06-11T11:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T09:41:18","slug":"flower-buds-and-broccolis-from-perennial-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=29091","title":{"rendered":"Flower buds and broccolis from perennial vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">As we approach midsummer many of my perennial vegetables are beginning to flower and from spring leaves and shoots we are now in the flower bud, scape (flower stem) and broccoli stage. Many stronger tasting plants have much milder upperparts than the earlier growth. This is presumably because the plants transfer their energy from insect defence to seed production.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29092\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29092\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/P2040068.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29092 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/P2040068.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/P2040068.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/P2040068-300x174.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/P2040068-768x446.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/P2040068-640x372.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Turkish rocket \/ russek\u00e5l (<em>Bunias orientalis<\/em>); <em>Allium x proliferum<\/em> (topset onions \/ luftl\u00f8k); heartleaf crambe \/ buskstrandk\u00e5l (<em>Crambe cordifolia<\/em>); sorrel \/ engsyre (<em>Rumex acetosa<\/em>) and sea kale \/ strandk\u00e5l (<em>Crambe maritima<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach midsummer many of my perennial vegetables are beginning to flower and from spring leaves and shoots we are now in the flower bud, scape (flower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3945,2676,17],"tags":[2319,4472,657,1417,958,1101,4471],"class_list":["post-29091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flower-buds","category-flower-stalk","category-food","tag-allium-x-proliferum","tag-broccolis","tag-bunias-orientalis","tag-crambe-cordifolia","tag-crambe-maritima","tag-rumex-acetosa","tag-scapes"],"views":4015,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29093,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29091\/revisions\/29093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}