An Alphabet of Kales (almost).

Interesting blog at https://scottishforestgarden.wordpress.c...-breeding/

Seeds available too on a swap/donate/pay it forward basis.

 I've received some Purple kale seeds from the Scottish Forest Garden that I'm hoping to cross with my green perennial kales. Who knows what I'll grow!!

They are:-
Purple kale tree (PKT)
Son of PKT
Nero di Toscana x PKT
Deep Purple
Kalettes (I'm determined to grow these!).

Sowed 8 seeds of each of these purple kales to inject some colour into my kale forest.

Last night's Kale (and odd brassica) sowings. Only a few of each - more of a viability test than a serious sowing!!
Sit down - this could take a while.

Dwarf Blue Curly
Big Bull's Head Cabbage
Buttonhole Starmaker -
Black Magic
Cottagers
Curly Scarlet
Collard Champion
Cavalo Nero
Dazzling Blue
Delaway cabbage/kale
Daubenton
East Friesian
Foragers
Georgia Southern Collard
Dwarf Green Curled
Gloria de Portugal Cabbage
Hungry Gap
Holbhouer Gruner Krauser
Jagallo Nero
Jersey/Walking Stick
Couve Galega Lisa
Kapitan F1
Morris Heading Collard
Nine Star Perennial Broccoli

Half way through the box.

 Those marked  have germinated.

Hi Veggie

I wondered how your walking stick jersey was doing? I have some Couve Galega (Portuguese Walking Stick Cabbage), about 4inches now sitting on the windowsill, wasn't sure whether to pot on or plant out?

No idea how mine are - not even sure where they are!! In a GH but its too wet and windy to hang around in a GH at the moment. They're certainly not 4" high.

The evenings are long and dark now so I've been revisiting my Kale seeds. Including odd things like Portuguese cabbage and Perennial cauliflowers, I have 65 different varieties.
Of my early sowings last year, some survived and are dotted around the garden - but I have no idea what they are!
I do like Kale plants - they have character, different leaf shapes, flat or curly, different colours from green to red to purple and a variety of stem colours to contrast with the leaves.
Must sow more soon.

65! I thought I was doing well with 7   .

Amateur.

What are they?

I’ve got
Kale dwarf green curled
Kale curly scarlet
Shetland kale *
perennial kale *
uncle Bert’s purple kale *
kale Nero di Toscana
kale - KX1

* from you   Not grown yet. Definitely growing next year

    This is the perennial kale that you have seeds of - must be about 6 years old now.

    I'll be turning these sideshoots into cuttings soon.

On a blind tasting could you tell the difference in taste/texture between the kales? If not, you only need grow one or two varieties