kohl rabi

[doc]

Hi all
I have never tasted kohl rabi. In fact I had never heard of it until I joined this forum
Is it too late to sow some? Are there different types and if so which one should I try?

[burnie]

sorry doc never tried it either(growing or eating),but I will next year just so I can say I have.I guess it's too late now,only stuff thats going to grow quickly,salads, or really slowly as in leeks or garlic should be started now.

[shirlthegirl43]

I believe you can sow kohl rabi now - can't help on types as I can't find my seeds sorry. It tastes like a cross between turnip and cabbage as is totally scrummy steamed and served smothered in butter

[kate&rob]

i love it raw, intend to try it steamed with butter. i think it tastes like the core of cabbage. deff worth trying some, they grow quickly so you should be ok. i grew a green variety and a purple, purple vienna i think it was called.

[Alice]

I'm with Shirl on the taste - somewhere beteen cabbage and turnip - and it's lovely grated raw or lightly cooked and mothered in butter and pepper.
You should be fine to sow some now Doc, I'm just about to sow mine and I'm in Perthshire. Last year they stood well into the winter so a good late crop. Sorry can't remember the variety but go for it.

[sewer rat]

I'm about to harvest variety Quickstar for my remaining box customers this week - I also have Superschmelz, which grows a lot larger (Lidl - 50p for a packet of about 350 !!)
One of the chefs at the hotel I grow for, cubes / dices the Kohl Rabi, blanches it then cooks it in beetroot juice.

[bazzaboy]

Marshalls do (did?) a "red and green mix" (no. 2623) which is the one I use in succession sowing; still OK to start now but protect seedlings from cabbage white butterflies as they find them irrisistible. Personally I don't find the taste anything special (perhaps proving I'm not a cabbage white) but the plant is quite interesting and different. Books usually say to crop when tennis ball size but i think they're better smaller than that (golf ball size?) as they get woody. Brassicas so they prefer soil of low acidity (e.g. fairly recently limed); they grow OK in containers. b.

[shirlthegirl43]

The superwotsit one Rat mentions is supposed to not get woody. I have managed to grow a purple one this year (first success) with them and we have had a couple at golf ball size and they were scrummy. I think the slugs or snails have enjoyed most of them though.

[doc]

Thank you all. You guys are absolutely marvellous!

[helanuels]

www.Moreveg.com does six different varieties, 20 seeds for 50p or 75p. I can’t find the first time it was mentioned on the vine so I can't quote it... sorry to whoever the very wise grape was. Hx


P.S. The site actually lists kohl rabi in their 'ideas to sow now'. Hx