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what is this vegetable? ID please
Gardengirl..
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This it the vegetable not sure if it is Kale or something else - picture bit dark as only took pic late
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Looks more like sprouting broccoli , but not flowering yet.
Looks like sprouting broccoli to me too
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you all, I was given it by another allotmenteer and they forgot to say what it was great help knew it was some sort of cabbage thing but not what
Tetley that sound horrible don't have hedgehogs on the allotment I think
Don't know anything about broccoli any help - when will I know when it is ready?
I find it's usually ready from March onwards, depending on variety and weather. It'll grow flowering shoots like this
These are the bits you cut off when they look like the above, and cook - delicious .
I stake my plants with tomato canes to stop them blowing about in the wind, otherwise the only job in the winter is to persuade the pigeons that they don't want to eat them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you Dove that is really helpful
It looks like my broccolini which I think is similar to sprouting broccoli. We feasted for months on ours - it's just finishing now.
Netting is not good for birds either. Only careful observation or camera traps would show whether there were hedgehogs.
my hedgehogs are still coming to feed every night. No frost here yet this winter.
Ours are tucked up snuggly somewhere - think they're under the neighbour's hedge.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Today went and visited my plot and the vegetable has the purple bit on so definitely purple sprouting broccoli - so here is a pic for you all to see