Kitchen Garden Forum

Whilst weeding on my allotment today, I noticed a wonderful aroma.

Looking around, I couldn't see the source. Then it struck me it was coming from the flowers on the Sweetcorns I was walking amongst!

I've noticed this before from the flowers of things like Artichokes, but never on "normal" veg. Have any of you noticed other examples like this?


Colin

Colin

Here are a few real scents:

Broad beans

Salad rocket

Wild rocket

The smell of wild rocket flowers is amazing, it's like honey and not at all like the smell of the rocket.

I always pick rocket flowers to have in the house. They make the room smell fabulous and that cream and brown mixture is quite striking. And then I can pretend that I deliberately let them run to seed!

Granny wrote:I always pick rocket flowers to have in the house......I can pretend that I deliberately let them run to seed!

Good idea - mine always manage to go to seed, no matter how carefully I try to look after them.


Colin