Hey, maybe you know what lettuce type veggie smells and tastes like skunk. Ick, ick. I was out in the garden this morning picking some of the Ferry-Morse Mesclun mix and smelled a skunk. I picked some more and the smell stayed with me. I took the bucket into the house and still smelled it. As I was rinsing the leaves, one smelled awful! It was a spikey leaf sort of like a thistle. It was a young leaf, about two inches in diameter. I’ve looked on the internet for a picture of something similar but no luck. I went through the names on the seed package (arugula, endive red kale, red and green romaine, salad bowl and lolla rossa lettuce) but still no luck. I tasted it and it tasted like it smelled - like skunk. No, the leaf is nothing like a skunk cabbage. I’m not a botanist so the best I can do in describing the leaf is picture the palm of a hand and fingers with the fingers having spikes on them like thistles do but not the fuzzy stuff. I was thinking maybe an endive but I’ve never known them to smell like skunk.
Sure, I have tons of weeds but I haven’t seen or smelled this thing before so chances are it came in the mesclun seed packet. I may have to throw out those packets and cross Ferry-Morse off my list because it’s really nasty.
Anyone know what it might be?
I NEVER use Fairy-Sores for seeds. They are trash and they don't make their crap right when you complain.
At least Burpee will replace on a phone call.
/johnny
“Anyone know what it might be?”
could it be marijuana? i did an internet search and found:
“One particular strain of marijuana does have a smell that is very similar to the smell that the skunk emits when it feels threatened and sprays. I have only once for a short time seen this particular strain and that was in 1990-91 in California. Back then we just called it KGB or Killer Green Bud.”
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_does_marijuana_smell_like_skunk
It is called........ skunk cabbage
OK just read your its not skunk cabbage. Which is edible if you boil it to tasteless.
Cleome probably, it is in the Brassica or mustard family, you know cabbage, brussels sprouts etc. and is known to have a skunky smell when the leaves are crushed or pinched.