Filling the Fall Garden

My starter plants from Richters have arrived! I came across Richters while searching for hard-to-find plants that weren’t available at my local nursery. I was so stoked to find that they carried Vietnamese plants like ngò gai and rau răm! One of my projects in the garden is a Vietnamese herb bed, so far populated by a…

Linda Ly
Starter plants

My starter plants from Richters have arrived!

I came across Richters while searching for hard-to-find plants that weren’t available at my local nursery. I was so stoked to find that they carried Vietnamese plants like ngò gai and rau răm! One of my projects in the garden is a Vietnamese herb bed, so far populated by a couple of tia tô plants given by my dad, and a delicious Vietnamese basil.

But the true stunner in the group is a plant called bloody dock (or blood spinach), which has the most beautiful deep red veins running through its leaves. I call this a “disco salad green” — uncommon but so tasty. Another disco green from Richters is salad burnet, which is purported to have a cucumbery flavor, and True French sorrel, which has a lemony tang. Technically these are herbs, but I think they’ll be perfect accents in a salad. And they’re perennial!

Red-veined bloody dock leaves

One Comment

  1. for rau ram, you can always use the left over stem from the market, soak it in water and it will root same goes with ngo om.

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