We noticed this choi of some variety growing along the edge of our driveway next to our growing tent today. My wife wants me to use it for dinner, even though I let her know that we have (perfectly safe!) plants ready in the actual garden. 🙄
by canineatheart
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Just remove it and use one of your other choi, she won’t know the difference. Unless her pallet is refined enough to pick up on a subtle hint of concrete
Is it really any worse than all the microplastics you’re already eating, or the car fumes you’re already inhaling, or the unwashed surfaces you’re already touching?
Use it! Driveway Choi is a gift!
I’d use it. Just wash it off really well and inspect for pests.
We ate the sidewalk lettuce last month. I must have dropped a seed when planting and of course it took off better than anything I grew!
*Park choi
I’m jealous! My choi bolts before they get to your driveway choi size. And I’m in a cool climate – zone 10a. I would eat it.
Let it flower, save the seeds. That’s a strong plant right there.
Ah no. Think of dog pee. Car exhaust. Sidewalk spit. Oil/ gas spills on driveway from cars and lawnmowers. There’s a reason why it’s paved. The surrounding soil is full of runoff like that and soap from washing the car with all its exposure.
Are you sure you can wash off car exhaust toxins that it grew in? I don’t think so. Plant some sunflowers they help remove soil toxins. Plastic aside, reduce what toxins you can by not eating tainted food.
😭 At least, this post made me laugh. Park Choi… I would not eat that.
There is plastic at the bottom of the ocean, just wash it and eat it
Eat it coward
Definitely let it seed and plant those next year, it’s a survivor
I would use it if it was me
I’d eat it washed and cooked, but I’ve engaged in questionable urban foraging…
Asfalt is pretty toxic my dude
ngl I’d use it lmao
Yummy exhaust fumes
I got so upset with my husband because he took a weed wacker to my tomato growing next to our outdoor trash can! I wanted to know what kind of tomatoes it was going to grow. 😭
Forbidden Choi
I definitely wouldn’t eat one growing by the side of the road, but a driveway gets very infrequent traffic at very low speeds, so personally I wouldn’t really be concerned about it
The secret is motor oil/coolant runoff and brake dust dilution.
I have driveway kale this year
In years past, I have put some extra kale plants in my front yard that have been visited by some of my canine neighbors. Those are the ones I save seeds from and then get added to the compost bin. Works out great.
My neighbor let their arugula go to seed, and now we both have arugula lawns. I’d be delighted, but I have a dog, so it’s forbidden arugula. Fortunately, there’s lots of sidewalk arugula this year. And of course it’s growing way better than the arugula I planted in my garden bed last year.
car park choi
Not driveway greens but I use the lettuce that pops up in my walkways. My husband calls it ground lettuce, vs I guess the lettuce I grow in a raised bed or a bordered bed? I always laugh and say, “dude it’s all ground lettuce!”
Driveway greens, he’ll get a laugh out of that.
hard core bok choi core
Use it!
That looks better than the multiple generations I planted this year, both direct seeded and started under lights. FML.
Does your wife get sad when you thin seedlings? My MIL is like that. She separates them all and then plants them too close together in the garden because she can’t bear to sacrifice any.
I used my sidewalk dill
Better looking than any I’ve ever tried to grow
Walk Choi