Identification help please

[Dave & Kate N Wales]

We lost all our brassicas last year to caterpillars and slugs (have bought some debris shield ready for this yrs) so whilst at a car boot sale in the summer we saw someone selling trays of plants and went to look. We bought some purple stuff which the stall holde said was purple sprouting brocolli from his allotment and the guy charged us for and handed over a tray of the green equivalent too although we only asked for the purple one. Anyway here we are at the beginning of March and the things we bought don't seem to have grown any sprouty bits that would identify it as psb but being a novice i could be wrong. So we have a pic of some of them which are in a big tub (the rest are in the ground and are a lot smaller) and wondered if anyone can identify what we are growing so we can eat it as hubby doesn't want to eat it unless he knows what it is)
Thanks Kate

[Jeanied]

That all looks like kale to me - pick the leaves, take out the centre midrib and use as cabbage!

[piskieinboots]

As Jeanied says

[ginger ninger]

I do as Jeanie said, but I steam it, then toss it in a little butter...yum.

[Dave & Kate N Wales]

Thanks, tbh i thought it was Kale but didn't want to say in case i was wrong. Is it ok to eat now or should we wait a bit

[ginger ninger]

You can eat it when ever you like or you can leave it a little longer, when the warmer weather gets here it will really take off, just watch it doesn't go to seed.

[harrybrew69]

That guy was a cheeky bugger then, giving you a plant nothing like broccoli.
well at least you can eat it ,when i saw the pic I thought kale too!

[Paulottie]

My wife, pigeons and cattle might eat it; but I'd rather suck a sock...which probably would smell nicer than kale cooking too.

Shame cos purple sprouting a far superior veg.

[Flummery]

Now if I had to choose - I have the kale! Good job we don't all like the same thing or some of us would get killed in the rush!

[chris]

What I do with Kale is make it crunchy!

Put it on a tray, lil bit of honey over it and grill it until it goes crispy/crunchy.

Really nice!

[rustylady]

That is deffo kale. Lovely stuff.

[cupcake]

My wife, pigeons and cattle might eat it; but I'd rather suck a sock...which probably would smell nicer than kale cooking too.

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LOL! I'm with you on this!

[Florence Fennel]

It looks delicious. I've bought some kale seed today.