Because none of the plants in this bed have been doing well, we decided to remove everything (except a few chicory plants) and transplant a variety of large overwintering brassicas instead:
- Thousand Headded Kale (2 plants) - a tough, extremely vigorous variety growing up to 1.2m
- Red Spear Sprouting Broccoli (4 plants) - a high yield early variety, harvest from mid Feb with many side shoots
- Early Purple Sprouting Broccoli (4 plants) - early variety producing many purple spears from early March
- Pentland Brig Kale (4 plants) - a very frost hardy and heavy cropping leafy winter veg with a distinct flavour, with leafy side shoots and spears like broccoli
In order to thin out the brassica seedbed (EX6), additional kale and sprouting plants were transferred to this bed as a temporary holding.
Freshly transplanted kale plant.
Because none of the plants in this bed have been doing well, we decided to remove everything (except a few chicory plants) and transplant a variety of large overwintering brassicas instead:
Freshly transplanted kale plant.
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