{"id":8524,"date":"2010-09-24T00:40:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T07:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8524"},"modified":"2012-06-26T07:08:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T14:08:32","slug":"nasturtium-as-a-vegetable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/nasturtium-as-a-vegetable\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasturtium as a Vegetable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8525\" title=\"Nasturtium\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/016.jpg 640w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/016-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have not got into the habit of eating Nasturtium and it may be too late for me to start at my age. However my vegetarian children take a different view.<\/p>\n<h2>Eating Nasturtium<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> The leaves   of the nasturtium plant are edible, with a peppery flavour, that can\u00c2\u00a0 tossed into salads.<\/li>\n<li>The flowers make a unique garnish to fresh foods and add a splash of colour.<\/li>\n<li>The seed pods can be treated like Capers and pickled or used as a crunchy addition to salads.<\/li>\n<li>For tastiest nasturtium leaves, keep the plants well watered, which helps to moderate the spiciness of the leaves and flowers.<\/li>\n<li>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reneesgarden.com\/articles\/nasturtiums.html\">Reneesgarden<\/a> ..&#8217;I prefer to toss them among sweeter greens like butterhead or crunchy Batavian lettuce, rather than with other bitter greens. They add a refreshing bite to a classic potato salad with hard-boiled eggs and a mayonnaise dressing, and pair well with seafood. A handful of the bright colored flower petals are delicious chopped into a shrimp or crab salad sandwich filling, and the whole flowers and leaves make a great garnish for a platter of grilled salmon.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>You can buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=nasturtium\"> Nasturtium seeds from Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Growing Watercress<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Watercress is called Nasturtium Officinale or Nasturtium Microphyllum<\/li>\n<li>It can be grown in gardens with chalk streams or a good supply of water as\u00c2\u00a0 a semi-aquatic plant<\/li>\n<li>Buy watercress with roots on at your local supermarket<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=watercress\"> Watyercress from Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/li>\n<li>An ordinary bunch placed in a  bowl of fresh clean water will develop roots.  Discard any that turn yellow or do not root and plant the rest.<\/li>\n<li>You can grow watercress in a container but keep it well watered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7441394916\/\" title=\"Nasturtium by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8021\/7441394916_871d06a437.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Nasturtium\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not got into the habit of eating Nasturtium and it may be too late for me to start at my age. However my vegetarian children take a different view. Eating Nasturtium The leaves of the nasturtium plant are edible, with a peppery flavour, that can\u00c2\u00a0 tossed into salads. The flowers make a unique garnish to fresh foods and add a splash of colour. The seed pods can be treated like Capers and pickled or used as a crunchy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/nasturtium-as-a-vegetable\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}