We eat all sorts of plant parts without realizing what we are eating. Different plant parts often have different types of nutritional qualities.
Vegetables eaten as sprouts
Adzuki
Alfalfa
Beetroot
Broccoli
Chick pea
Cress
Lentil
Mung Beans
Mustard
Onion
Peas
Red Clover
Red Radish
Soybean
Oats
Barley
Rye
Amaranth
Sesame
Generally speaking any vegetable (even some flowers) NOT in the tomato family can be tried as sprouts. Make sure the vegetable seed has not been treated with a fungicide. Fungicides are sometimes dusted on the outside of seeds to help prevent certain diseases common during germination such as “damping off”.
Vegetables eaten as leafy greens
Amaranth
Arugula
Beet greens
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| Mizuna growing in the Orchard. A very hardy and great selection for harsh environments. |
Bok choy
Broccoli Rabe
Brussels sprout
Cabbage
Celery
Ceylon spinach
Chard
Chicory
Chinese cabbage
Chrysanthemum
leaves
leaves
Collard greens
Corn salad
Cress
Dandelion
Endive
Epazote
Fluted pumpkin
Garden Rocket
Plantain
Kale
Lamb’s lettuce
Lettuce
Miner’s
Lettuce
Lettuce
Mizuna
Mustard
Napa cabbage
New Zealand Spinach
Orache
Pak choy
Pea leaves
Poke
Radicchio
Radish tops
Sea kale
Sorrel
Spinach
Summer
purslane
purslane
Sweet potato
Swiss chard
Turnip greens
Water spinach
Winter
purslane
purslane
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| Mini red bell peppers |
Yarrow
Vegetables eaten for their “fruits”
Bell pepper
Bitter melon
Cucumber
Eggplant
Hot pepper
Pumpkin
Squash
Sweet corn
Sweet pepper
Tomatillo
Tomato
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| ‘Amazing’ cauliflower |
West Indian
gherkin
Zucchini
Vegetables eaten as flowers and flower buds
Artichoke
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Squash blossoms
Zucchini flowers
Vegetables that form pods (mostly Legumes)
American
groundnut
groundnut
Black-eyed pea
Chickpea
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| Snow peas |
Common bean
Fava bean
Garbanzo
Green bean
Indian pea
Lentil
Lima Bean
Mung bean
Okra
Pea
Peanut
Pigeon pea
Runner bean
Snap pea
Snow pea
Soybean
Tepary bean
Velvet bean
Winged
bean
bean
Yardlong bean
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| Garlic |
Bulb and “stem” vegetables
Cardoon
Celeriac
Celery
Elephant Garlic
Fennel
Garlic
Kohlrabi
Leek
Nopal
Onion
Spring Onion/Scallion
Shallot
Root and tuberous vegetables
Bamboo shoot
Beetroot
Burdock
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| Radish ‘French Breakfast’ |
Canna
Carrot
Cassava
Chinese
artichoke
artichoke
Daikon
Earthnut pea
Elephant Foot
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yam
Ginger
Hamburg parsley
Jerusalem artichoke
Jícama
Parsnip
Pignut
Potato
Prairie turnip
Radish
Horseradish
Rutabaga
Salsify
Scorzonera
Sweet Potato
Taro
Turnip
Water chestnut
Yam
Perennial vegetables
and herbs
and herbs
Aloe, asparagus,
artichokes, chicory, chives,
Echinacea, dandelion, fennel,
ginseng, Jerusalem artichokes, lavender, lemongrass, lovage, marjoram, mints, sorrel, rosemary, sage,
tarragon, thyme, yarrow
artichokes, chicory, chives,
Echinacea, dandelion, fennel,
ginseng, Jerusalem artichokes, lavender, lemongrass, lovage, marjoram, mints, sorrel, rosemary, sage,
tarragon, thyme, yarrow
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| Artichokes |