If you're getting bored of the icebergs in the remains of the world, well, this episode

is going to be pretty exciting for you.

We have Linda Lee back on the show.

She's the blogger behind Garden Betty and also the author of the no-waste vegetable cookbook.

So I know yesterday, Linda, we talked about how brassicas and the leaves of brassicas

can be used as the unconventional salad greens, but of course, there are a ton of other

ones that can be used as well and I'm curious, what do you like to do besides lettuce?

So for me, I think I use more unconventional salad greens at home than I do actual salad

greens, like lettuce and spinach.

And that's just because of what I grow and I tend to be kind of impatient as a gardener.

I like to harvest as soon as I see them tall enough.

And so like I mentioned yesterday, there's a lot of plants that you can use before you

get to the good stuff, the good stuff, so to speak.

So instead of waiting for fava beans, you're waiting like two months at least or sometimes

three months for the pods to form, in the meantime, you can actually use all of that lovely

silky foliage and put them in a salad or even cook them.

So fava bean leaves are one of my favorites because there's a lot of them.

So with other plants, you have to be careful with how many leaves you pick so that you don't

affect production of the actual pot or the fruit, on a fava bean plant, they're very

productive.

Like they grow all leaves up to like three or four feet tall before the pods start forming.

And you can harvest a lot for like a pesto or a salad or a stir fry.

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