Cut and come again veggies!

[Bigmallly]

VC, you've obviously got your peas & beans in mind plus 1 or 2 courgettes............

[SarzWix]

Beetroot and turnip can be planted closer together and eat them small. Eventually you'll be left with the bigger ones and you can keep them going for their baby leaves?

[Bigmallly]

Beetroot and turnip can be planted closer together and eat them small. Eventually you'll be left with the bigger ones and you can keep them going for their baby leaves?

As with onions I would guess.......

[Patchninja]

I have leeks that grow back called poireau perpetuel. They're quite'skinny but they seem to be filling up their alloted space quie nicely and they taste good.

[GardenNinja]

VC, you should try out the early mizuna and mibuna that I sent in the VSP. 2 of each is all you need for months of delicious, crispy cut and come again salad leaves. They are the quickest growing for me. You can also stir fry the older leaves. I got the seeds from real seed catalogue.

[vikkib]

I loved Zaz's idea for easy care, cut and come again celery in flower buckets... definitely trying this!

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1073886

[BertieFox]

I read an Internet post which claimed you could simply cut back spring onions and they would re-shoot and produce a lot more green onion stem for the kitchen. I tried it but they just died. Has anyone tried this successfully? I prefer bunching onions which you can thin out and allow to grow back.

[Two_Sheds]

you could simply cut back spring onions and they would re-shoot ... Has anyone tried this successfully?

Yes, I do it. With leeks too.


*thought: make sure it's a non-bulbing onion, and don't cut into the root area. Cut just a bit above the root plate

[BertieFox]

Is 'Tree Cabbage' or 'Paul and Becky's Asturian Tree Cabbage' the same as Chou d'Aubenton... or Daubenton's Kale, which we grow in France. It's a perennial cabbage or kale which makes a massive plant three feet or more across. You propagate it from set stem cuttings and it makes no viable seed. Gives a mass of young shoots all year round but is best for cut and come again shoots in spring. Definitely get a plant if you can. While the old plant might die if neglected, you can keep it going all the time by taking new cuttings every year. They root almost as you watch!

[veggiechicken]

I have Daubenton's Kale seeds this year from the HSL and we had a discussion on here about whether or not it could produce/be grown from seed. I certainly hope it can. I want to grow several different kales this year, especially the tall ones - a sort of kale forest
Another one is Portuguese cabbage, also from the HSL, that may be the same as the Tree cabbage. I'd like to get hold of cuttings but I'll try them from seed too.

[Thelma Sanders]

Portuguese cabbage - that's couve tronchuda isn't it?

They have seed here Fresh Seeds Portuguese kale Couve Tronchuda Portuguesa - fresh from Portugal | eBay

[veggiechicken]

I had the seeds from HSL last year, Thelma I'm determined that this is going to be the year of the Big Brassicas

[BertieFox]

True Daubentons kale is definitely sterile, so seeds are probably the result of a cross. I've read about some American experiments in crossing it with calabrese or broccolis to try to get other brassicas that would grow easily from cuttings and adopt a more or less perennial habit. Good luck with your seed, as this is a super plant for greens at a time of year when there is little else.

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Bertie. Photos of my kale forest will be on here at the end of the year

[bazzaboy]

Photos of my kale forest will be on here at the end of the year

Which varieties you aiming at, VC? I get confused about kale, is it defined as a cabbage that doesn't form a head? But then "Walking Stick Cabbage" is listed as a kale too.... Your favourite suppliers Pennards lists it as such (and another 9 varieties), see:
Seeds, Eclectic Victorian Vegetable Seed from Pennard Plants

There seems to be several names for the same variety, as discussed in 2008...:
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ies_12304.html

Some good tips on how to get your walking sticks (as well as mountains of kale) at:
Walking Stick Kale