Everlasting PSB?

[Samurailord]

I have a PSB plant on my plot that is coming up for nearly two years old.

I planted it late in the summer of 2012 when I had just got my allotment, but it did nothing that year at all as I think it went in too late.

It survived the winter and grew on strongly in the spring but showed no signs of anything to crop, so I decided to leave it in place as an un-netted sacrificial plant to keep the cabbage whites away from the rest of my brassicas.

By the start of this season it had grown into a very substantial bush and it finally started to produce a crop - hundreds of little PSB spears which were really nice and tasty. You will be able to see it on any of my latest videos on YouTube

There were so many that I couldn't harvest them all, so i have let the plant flower to provide for the bees in our apiary.

I am going to keep the plant to see how it does next year, and I just wondered if anyone else had ever done the same as me - the norm seems to be to pull the old plants out as soon as they have cropped?

Andy

[marchogaeth]

I know if you don't quite get the planting time correct the first year then they will take the extra season to produce. I've just thrown my potted plants outside for the insects, I'm expecting them to die after they produce seed.

[Penellype]

I have 2 plants that were put in late and produced a very small crop of spears, but are now producing copious quantities of new leaves. I have decided to leave them where they are for now and see if anything interesting happens.

[veggiechicken]

I have a cabbage (probably Hispi) in the GH that's been there for 3 years. It grows new heads along the stem and they keep on coming. Also, I take the young sideshoots and root them in water and grow more of them without bothering with seed.
I call it my perennial cabbage.