The Salsify - A Little History and Some Growing Instructions Salsify is a hardy, long-season perennial vegetable that has a deliciously flavorful creamy root. It has been cultivated for centuries in Southern Europe and around the Mediterranean. It has never gained widespread popularity, but has always had a very loyal following among a devoted few. Salsify came to the New World with the colonists and was grown throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic. In 1848 it was written, “The Salsify is indigenous to England. The roots are bioled or stewed like carrots, and have a mild, sweetish flavor. They are also par-boiled, made into cakes, and fried like oysters, which, when thus cooked, they strongly resemble, in both taste and scent. The stalks of year old plants are
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