Best of the month – Artichokes!!, Asparagus!!! (Poha) Cape gooseberries, Kumquats, Rhubarb, Lettuce, last of the field aged winter pumpkins, Daikon Radish seed pods, Wasabi leaf & flowers, new herbs like Anise Hyssop, Mint, Origano & Marjoram, Rocket, Fistulosum Onions, Turnips, Beetroots, NZ spinach, Parsley & Mitsuba, new leafy greens like Minutina, red vein sorrel & Dandelions and Lemon Balm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Leaf<\/p>\n
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- Endive \u2013 green curled leaf<\/li>\n
- Raddichio & chicory \u2013 Red & Green Grummolo, Treviso, Red Orchid, Catalogna<\/li>\n
- Lettuce \u2013 various \u2013 Deer tongue, Devils ear, Romaine, Buttercrunch etc<\/li>\n
- Mizuna \u2013 purple\u00a0& green<\/li>\n
- Mibuna<\/li>\n
- Mustards<\/li>\n
- Land Cress & Water Cress & other cress like plants<\/li>\n
- Pak choy & other related brassica greens \u2013 various colours (Komatsuna, Choy sum, Bok choy etc)<\/li>\n
- Sorrel \u2013 Lamb\u2019s Head & Red Vein<\/li>\n
- Rocket \u2013 Eruca & Wild rocket<\/li>\n
- Silver Beet &\u00a0Chard & other perpetual leaf beets \u00a0\u2013 green and coloured<\/li>\n
- Salvia Sclarea \u2013 new leaf<\/li>\n
- Mitsuba \u2013 Japanese wild parsley<\/li>\n
- Minutuna \u2013\u00a0Plantago coronopus<\/li>\n
- Sow\u00a0thistle \u2013 leaf<\/li>\n
- Stridolo<\/li>\n
- NZ spinach \u2013 Warragul Greens<\/li>\n
- other selected salad greens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Allium\u00a0family<\/p>\n
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- Chives \u2013 poly and garlic<\/li>\n
- Leeks \u2013 Carentan<\/li>\n
- Garlic\u00a0\u2013 new\u00a0shoots<\/li>\n
- Shallot \u2013 new shoots<\/li>\n
- Onions \u2013 bunching var and new shoots \u2013 Ishikura, Red Firenze & Tropea<\/li>\n
- Rakky\u014d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Roots & Shoots (Root crops where\u00a0typically\u00a0leaf material is possibly also used seasonally)<\/p>\n
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- Asparagus<\/li>\n
- Skirret – new leaf<\/li>\n
- Salsify &\u00a0Scorzonera – roots and \u00a0shoots<\/li>\n
- Beetroot \u2013 roots and shoots<\/li>\n
- Mangelwurzel \u2013 roots and shoots<\/li>\n
- Daikon and other radishes \u2013 roots & shoots<\/li>\n
- Carrots \u2013 roots and leaf<\/li>\n
- Turnips \u2013 roots and shoots<\/li>\n
- Dandelion \u2013 roots and shoots<\/li>\n
- Horse radish – new shoots<\/li>\n
- Fennel \u2013 green & bronze leaf<\/li>\n
- Hablitzia – new shoots and leaf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Legumes<\/p>\n
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- Peas \u2013 peas and shoots \u2013 Telephone<\/li>\n
- Snow Peas<\/li>\n
- Broad Bean \u2013 new leaf shoots and full pods \u2013 various<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Assorted<\/p>\n
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- Cape Gooseberries – Poha berries<\/li>\n
- Sugar cane \u2013 new growth<\/li>\n
- Chili \u2013 Santaka, Aji Chanca & Amarillo & Serrano<\/li>\n
- Wasabi \u2013 fresh Wasabi leaf, stalk\u00a0and stem & flowers<\/li>\n
- Pepino<\/li>\n
- Rhubarb<\/li>\n
- Kumquat – and other late season citrus fruit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Herbs<\/p>\n
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- Anise Hyssop – leaf<\/li>\n
- Lovage – leaf<\/li>\n
- Australian native pepper \u2013 leaf<\/li>\n
- Mints \u2013 various<\/li>\n
- Lemon Balm \u2013 leaf<\/li>\n
- Coriander \u2013\u00a0Cilantro \u2013 seeds and leaf<\/li>\n
- Parsley<\/li>\n
- Oregano & Majoram<\/li>\n
- Salad Burnett<\/li>\n
- Rosemary<\/li>\n
- Thyme<\/li>\n
- Nasturtium flowers and leaves<\/li>\n
- Calendula \u2013 new flowers<\/li>\n
- Rose Geranium<\/li>\n
- Field balm \u2013 Calamintha nepeta & various<\/li>\n
- Prostanthera – Incisa, rotundifolia<\/li>\n
- Winter Savoury<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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