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Sclupit/Silene Inflata (120-50)

Sclupit/Silene Inflata (120-50)

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Sclupit (Silene Vulgaris or Silene Inflata).  Widely used in Italy, but not anywhere else. A favorite field green throughout Northeast and Central Italy. It's used as a leaf vegetable (not as an aromatic herb) in minestre, frittate, pasta dishes, risotti, crepe fillings, polpettine (rissoles), meat dishes, and fish dishes, but never salads.   Flavor a bit like a combination of arugula, tarrogon, chicory & other herbs. (The plant has more than 60 local names, including: sguasoi & virzuli in Lombardia; ciache or ciochi in Trentino; carleti, schiopetti, s'ciopeti, & s ciopetis in Veneto; stridoli in Romagna; & sfrizzoli in Macerata.)  Easy to grow perennial. Direct seed from last frost date to early summer, or from late summer to mid fall. Bury seeds ½", I seed inch, thin to 4". Pick at any size.  2 gram packet.

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Anthony
Bears all year

I planted this as an oddity. It grows prolifically in a patch of my yard where other plants have not done well, in part shade, around the knobby roots of a maple tree. It has seeded into another area around the tree. It is green and pickable all year. I like to saute with garlic and oil. The taste is peculiar, hard to describe, not something I am used to - it has 5 stars in my mind for excellent, reliable growth.