Tomato, zucchini, broccoli, kale, lettuce, and beet seedlings tend to get leggy because they’re started in spring when daylight is still limited. Leggy seedlings often happen with seeds started indoors and any type of vegetable, herb, or flower seedling can be affected. Why are the seedlings so spindly and stretching toward the sun? This isn’t a catwalk, ladies!
#Cabbage tree seedling free#
Please feel free to ask any questions relating to the blog.If you like to give your seeds a head start on the season by sprouting them on a sunny windowsill, you may be wondering right about now… I will be discussing anything to do with gardening, growing, working on the land and food, including recipes as I go along. I hope that this blog inspires, informs and is found interesting for any readers. I work in our vegetable garden alongside my mum. I am vegetarian because I have never liked the taste or texture of meat but my family do eat it so I will be including meat recipes on this blog. Family owns pets: dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, kune kune pigs (not for eating) and bees (that we never get any honey from). If you are a little unsure about the cabbage/kale taste, of it just boiled, then try adding it shredded to stews, curries stir-fries: Garden Stir-Fry – the way to use up unwanted veg They might be exhausted this season, or they might survive for another harvest. They are winter cold hardy, pulling through the frosts without any protection. We have been harvesting the seeds and using it as a replacement for mustard seeds ( Mustard) in curries and other dishes as it from the same family, Brassica. Instead, they made more leaves and have kept on going this year. When the plants started flowering and going to seed, I thought that meant that they were over. But that means we have a great supply for our poultry throughout the cold season when there is little grass for them to munch in their run. One or two plants could easily feed a family – we’ve got goodness knows how many because I went crazy with sowing them, thinking none would germinate. Very nutritious for them!Įvery time you pick the leaves, more grow. We pick a bunch of it every chance we get to go the the garden and drop it off in their run and they completely destroy it within minutes. It tastes just like kale.īut even better, the poultry love it. It is harvestable throughout the hungry gap, just what you need in England when you might struggle to keep your greens going. This grew really well for us in our dry sandy soil. Very, very rare. Can be a short-lived perennial vegetable if the flowers are removed as they form.’ But Tree Cabbage like this is also a key ingredient in the classic Spanish dish ‘Caldo Gallego’ – which is a delicious leaf, bean, and meat stew. Grows like cabbage, harvested like a kale. You simply take the huge leaves a few at a time to eat all year round. You can even keep it going for two years or more! Just cut it back when it tries to flower – it makes new growth, ideal for fresh cabbage in spring during the ‘hungry gap’. You can use it as cooked greens just as normal.
‘This unusual Spanish heirloom has absolutely enormous leaves – and it looks like a Kale rather than a cabbage it makes no head, just a tall stalk with a loose head on top. I planted a couple of years ago seeds from the Real Seed Company called Tree Cabbage, a perennial plant.
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