Kale Shoots

[veggiechicken]

I was going to ask them about those too - Stinking iris smells like that too. When asked 9 out of 10 people say it smells like Oxo crisps. I know, because I used to ask them!!
Unfortunately for James Wrong, he can't promote it as its poisonous.

Have you also seen how he is "Developing" all sorts of ordinary seeds, giving them fancy names and making out he's discovered them. For example "Nasturtium leaves seeds"

https://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/...eds_171602.htm

Who'd have thought you could eat nasturtium leaves.
These are Tropaeolum minus (dwarf nasturtium). £2.49 for 25 at Suttons or £1.50 for 30 at Kings https://www.kingsseeds.com/Products/...eolum-minus)-A

[Guest]

Bet they're loving you, VC!!

Could be worse, could do a forum wide asking questions. Like the rootstocks for @ldi's trees

It is bad though, they are meant to be specialists and they just seem to get worse along with some of the other mainstream seed suppliers

[Craig_C]

For example "Nasturtium leaves seeds"

https://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/...eds_171602.htm

Who'd have thought you could eat nasturtium leaves.
These are Tropaeolum minus (dwarf nasturtium). £2.49 for 25 at Suttons or £1.50 for 30 at Kings https://www.kingsseeds.com/Products/...eolum-minus)-A

I grew a Nasturtium last year as a companion plant for my tomatoes. (It's a sacrificial thing, the bugs like the Nasturtium more than they do the tomatoes.)
Anyway, if you don't overwater it like I did during the summer, the plant produces lots of foliage.
The leaves are nice and a little bit more peppery than roquette leaves.

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Craig
I was being sarcastic towards Sutt0ns actually - as they promote these seeds as if they are something very special and that nobody has ever known that you could eat the leaves or pickle the pods as "capers" ( they haven't said that.............yet )

[lottie dolly]

shall we show them,the GYO special mix,invented by,what to do with unused brassica seeds,as VC says,give em a chance,just in case some off u might not know ,mix the seed all together,put in a jar with holes in the lid,and sprinkle fairly close together,cut off young leaves as they grow,leaving the growing tip,repeat as you see fit,same with lettuce seed,yes i got the idea from our vine a few years ago,just gota remember to do it,the best price is,you already paid it

[Vince G]

Don't like growing curly kale, I find them hard to wash for cooking because those mucky grey bugs get inside the curls, which is a bit of a problem for the brassica growers on our field. Prefer to grown cavolo nero as the leaves are flatter and easier to clean.

The leaves on the picture on the pack look about the size of the leaves on the plants I transplant into their final positions in June/July, in other words they're very tiny.

[veggiechicken]

I've replied:-

Its hard to estimate the size of the leaves in your photos. Are they the first true leaves after the seed leaves?

Their reply -
"Yes they would be, also with many cut and come again plants new leaves are produced regularly for picking."

[SarrissUK]

They talk as someone not knowing much about plants... :/

[veggiechicken]

They probably don't - it'll be whoever is on FB duty. I can't be bother to question them any more - not even to ask why they charge so much more for the seeds in the shoots packets to ordinary ones - but I will sow some to satisfy my own curiosity about smooth or curly leaves.

[veggiechicken]

Remember the"kale shoots"
"......... harvest once the first set of leaves have unfurled. Sow in succession – ready in just 4 weeks from sowing."

Here are "my" Dwarf green curled" sown 27/1.

10/3 (6 weeks)




19/3 (7 weeks). They look bigger than they are!



I still don't know what a "kale shoot" is supposed to be, and, if its anything like these after 4 weeks you may as well grow mustard and cress.

[Small pumpkin]

my curly kale has just started germinating so I'll compare it to your shoots. When it's a bit bigger.