Kale : Il Cavolo Palmizio Senza Testa
Kale : Il Cavolo Palmizio Senza Testa
Vegetable/Salad Vegetable
- Days to Harvest: All year round
Description
Increasingly popular 'baby salad leaf' to add colour, texture and taste to mixed salads. The mature plant can also be used as a winter hardy vegetable when fresh produce is in short supply.
Sowing Instructions
| Sowing time: | February to March |
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| Sowing depth: | ½ inch deep |
Sow seed in February to March under glass for earliest crops, or April to July outdoors in a well-prepared seedbed that is free of weeds and has been raked to a fine tilth. Sow thinly, ½ inches deep, in shallow drills 6 inches between rows. Cover the seeds lightly with soil, firm well using the back of a rake, and water in if soil is dry.
Growing Instructions
After 6 weeks transplant into well manured and prepared soil. Plant with a dibber, allowing 18-20 inches between plants. Firm soil well around plants, water generously after planting and during hot, dry weather. Can also be grown at 20cm spacing for smaller, tender leaves for salads.
Aftercare Instructions
Long harvesting season and good winter hardiness.
Kitchen Notes
Serving suggestion - Italian bean, potato and kale soup. Mash cooked cannelloni or borlotti beans and potato. In a large pan sizzle onion, garlic, sweet pepper, Italian seasoning and rosemary. Stir in mashed beans and potato, add mashed plum tomatoes, broth, bring to boil. Simmer adding chopped kale leaves.