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Brassica
Kale
Vegetable
August planting for the polytunnel An amazing kale bred specially for home gardeners by Hank Keogh at Gathering Together Farm, this is a blue-green palm kale with a striking pink midrib. This one is a real performer and has become one of our most reliable kales in the garden. It performs really well, and tastes great - like a Tuscan kale but with a lighter & fresher flavour; probably the best-tasting kale we've got.
Brassica
Kale
Vegetable
Redbor kale can be distinguished from other kale varieties simply by its deep red and maroon color. The Redbor kale has frilly, curled leaves that have deep purple stems and veins running throughout. Some plants are entirely magenta, thought at times, others may have leaves that are tinged with green. Growing between 18 to 24 inches in length, the Redbor kale offers a mild cabbage-like flavor and crisp texture. When cooked it becomes tender and nutty with a mild earthy sweetness.
Brassica
Kale
Vegetable
Late planting is for the polytunnel A variety of the Italian black cabbage, bred to perform better in our climate, with improved cold tolerance, colour, leaf shape and bolt resistance than current Italian varieties. Good cut-and-come again crop.
Low-tunnel
Brassica
Kale
Vegetable
Early planting is just for the hungry gap, it will run to seed and be cleared. Long, dark green leaves to cut from late summer to early spring. Pretty hardy. Tasty steamed or stir-fried. Young leaves can also be used in salads.
Brassica
Kale
Vegetable
Late and early sown are for the polytunnel/hoop tunnel One of the more decorative kales, Red Russian is a medium-tall heirloom that is usually grown as a biennial. The leaves grow is a loose rosette and are dark green with purple veins. The stems are a burgundy that grows deeper after a frost. Frost also makes the leaves sweeter. Overall Russian Red is a great addition to any fall and winter garden. What’s more, it’s as nutritious as it is beautiful—kale is one of the most vitamin-rich vegetabl
Brassica
Kale
Vegetable
Red Ruble is a very distinctive dark wine red colour with serrated leaves that was originally bred for producing the baby leaf seen in supermarket packets. With an iron content that is typically 10 times higher than normal best grown for salad leaves rather than full head production.. This kale can be sown virtually all year round. The intense red colour will fade as the plant matures, however this variety was not bred to be used for mature plants.
Brassica
Kale
Vegetable
An early, reliable and popular variety producing low, compact plants (12-15” tall, 20-35”spread) with finely curled, bluish-green leaves which can be harvested in all seasons. This variety withstands colder weather and a light frost especially improves flavour and sweetness.
Brassica
Kale
Vegetable
This popular, compact curly Kale is ideal for growing in windswept gardens or on poor soils. Kale 'Dwarf Green Curled' produces attractive, dark, tightly frilled leaves of excellent quality. Like all Kale this variety is exceptionally hardy, standing well in the harshest of weather. Height: 60cm (24"). Spread: 45cm (18").
Brassica
Kale
Vegetable
Brassica
Kale
Vegetable
A plain leaved Kale which is particularly winter hardy and prolific, growing up to 150cm tall. Pick tender young leaves from the crown of the plant from October, and continue picking new side shoots right through to the spring.
Brassica
Kale
Vegetable
It is the most vigorous and resilient kale we have seen. It shrugged off attack by aphids, cabbage white caterpillars, ravenous goats, and 70 mph freezing sleet overwinter. In each case it sprang back, growing new leaves with no trouble, and forming large heads of Kale in spring when at its most valuable. And when it starts to bolt in spring, the flowering shoots are good to eat too, very much like sprouting broccoli shoots
Brassica
Kale
Vegetable
hardy grey-green kale that has been selected for its profusion of tender shoots in spring. While you can take leaves to eat as you would with any kale, this variety has particularly sweet tasty sprouts in spring, like a green version of sprouting broccoli.
Brassica
Kale
Vegetable
Kale 'Hungry Gap' is a reliable old variety that is superior in hardiness and colour. It is named after that season in traditional agriculture at the end of spring when the brassicas and chard are finished and nothing else is quite ready and not even cabbage can be grown. Similar to Ragged Jack, with a wavy edge to the leaves, turning steel blue with a red and purple hue in colder weather, it is very easy to grow, unlike other brassicas it will tolerate poor soil conditions and is rarely troubl
Brassica
Kale
Perennial
Vegetable
Brassica
Kale
Perennial
Vegetable
Brassica
Kale
Tree cabbage
Vegetable
As a 'cut and come again' crop you can start removing leaves when the plant is just 5cm high. The new leaves will continuously form. Alternatively wait till October before you start removing tender leaves from the top of the plant. Once the main crown has been harvested side shoots will form which will be ready to harvest from February to May. Pick shoots that are 10 to 15cm (4 to 6in) long and still young.
Brassica
Kale
Florret
Vegetable
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