Broccoli and other brassicas

[Chuck]

Good luck guys, the weather here (hopefully) won't have much influence on my winter brassicas.

A friend in Thailand sent me some Chinese broccoli seeds called Kai-Lan Apparently they don't make heads or side shoots. Have you ever grown them and if so do you grow them like any other brassicas?

 

[headfullofbees]

A friend in Thailand sent me some Chinese broccoli seeds called Kai-Lan Apparently they don't make heads or side shoots. Have you ever grown them and if so do you grow them like any other brassicas?

I've not grown it before, but it is brassica oleracea, so I would grow it the same.

 

[Southwood88]

I love to eat home grown broccoli!! So much more tender than broccoli that you buy in the stores. I like to purchase my seeds from www.edenbrothers.com, they always seem to have a good supply.

 

[R.R.]

Can you eat the leaves of the Brussels sprouts plants? How about the leaves of broccoli or cauliflower?

 

[Chuck]

Can you eat the leaves of the Brussels sprouts plants? How about the leaves of broccoli or cauliflower?

Yes, the leaves of all if them are edible, but IMO not all that tasty. The upper newer leaves aren't too bad but the lower leaves not so much

 

[R.R.]

Thanks for telling me they're not that tasty. I'll probably use them for vegetable stock, then.

 

[Chuck]

Thanks for telling me they're not that tasty. I'll probably use them for vegetable stock, then.

Are you growing swiss chard?

 

[headfullofbees]

They sell sprouts tops in greengrocers' shops here, and I've even seen them in a large supermarket.
Cauliflower leaves are nice, if they're the tender ones close to the curds, but the best part is the middle vein, which is delicious sliced and stir-fried.

 

[R.R.]

Thanks, I'll try that