Here we have a beautiful little flower bud of a pac choy plant. It's edible and unusually tasty. The chef has been loving them ever since our older choy plants have sent up a flower spike and have started to blossom. We like to let a lot of veggies here at Love Apple Farm flower, because most vegetable flowers (particularly winter vegetables) can be eaten. We also do it to save seed and to feed our bees in the winter time, when flowers are scarce.
This bud though, is equally edible and lovely. If it reminds you of a tiny broccoli head, then you've got a good eye. Pac choy, pak choi, bok choy, or however you want to spell it, is a sister of broccoli. Both are members of the Brassica family. I think you would find this particular bud, though, quite sweet. The rest of the plant is wonderfully edible as well, including the stem after it sends up its flower spike. So don't be shy, eat those greens....all of them!
Your plants looks healthy and just gorgeus!
Posted by: Melisa | March 31, 2009 at 01:20 AM
Here I was about to harvest all my bok choy because I thought it was "bolting" (AKA getting bitter, like lettuce). Good to know I can leave it in the garden and get edible flowers. Thanks!
Posted by: Dave Trowbridge | March 08, 2009 at 06:58 PM
thanks for making it official, i've been eating my tatsoi flowers for a while now and now that you've written about them, my husband will let me put them in dinner.
Posted by: annabelle | March 06, 2009 at 01:21 PM
This shows great! I love to try new things that I can grow. I have ordered some Pac Choy seeds. Thank you for all your great info!
Posted by: Bonnie Chadwick in Fowlerville, MI | March 03, 2009 at 09:23 AM