I need to do some serious weeding where I planted them to be certain but I can't see them at the mo. Glad I went to look though as the nearby Daubenton's was covered in caterpillars. Two broods, large and tiddly little ones. I removed some eggs from it a couple of weeks back! Hope that's not what has happened to yours, NG
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Daubenton's kale flowering!
Does anyone know whether the flowers are white? Or if these leaves look right for Daubenton?
I'd like to be really sure that this is Daubenton! Grown from HSL seed 3 years ago.
As for seed saving, I have a few problems -
1. there's only one plant and apparently you need a pool of 29-25 brassicas to save seed - though how you guarantee that 25 seldom-flowerers are in flower at the same time I know not!
2. I have a couple more giant kales in flower - these are also about 3 years old. I wanted to let them cross and let them do their thing!
If I leave them, they'll cross with the Daubenton
Any advice from the Kale lovers?
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Are you sure it's not white sprouting broccoli? I thought all kales had yellow flowers?
As an aside, the huge bag of kale seeds I saved from Red Russian last year I'm sprouting as salad cress, after noting on the pack of supermarket "cress" that it was rapeseed, not cress, not even mustard. Kale sprouts taste pretty much the same.Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
Endless wonder.
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Originally posted by sammy_roser View PostWell done! I hope that would keep you self sufficient!
I kept meaning to buy some Nero di Toscana but haven't gotten round to it yet.Just think happy thoughts
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I have Curly Scarlet and Red Russian on the go at the moment for baby leaves, and I'll be sowing these two and cavolo nero in the next couple of weeks to overwinter.
I'd love to grow loads of varieties, but I think I'll probably have space to overwinter about 18-20 kale/PSB plants and due to some ill-planned reduced plant buying a few weeks ago I already have 12 PSB plants pretty much ready to go out...Last edited by cristalfiona; 26-05-2016, 02:26 PM.
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