Would anyone coming to the meet like two freshly cut cuttings wrapped in damp kitchen towel in a poly bag so you can root them and have
Chou D ' Aubenton ( sp ).
Better known as " Perennial Kale " .
It grows well , all year round very hardy down to about minus 15 o C even ,lower if slightly protected , yet it's sweet and tender when boiled , used as sag aloo , bubble & squeak etc. all year round if you get you planting /cuttings spaced out . Chooks love it so do pigs it's a brassica like cabbages
Distance between plants best at about 1.78 metre ( six feet ) .
As for all brassica once a plant is removed practice crop rotation of at least three years gap to prevent any disease build up in the ground .
Once your cuttings are rooted and grown to about 2 foot across make more of your own cuttings and grow in big patches for house and stock consumption.
They like well aged manured soil that stays reasonably moist in hot ( did I actually say ... Hot
) for best results.
Drop me a PM so I can cut the right number of cutting on Thursday morning )
Keep taking cuttings at the end of Aug to ensure new plants the next year and when they have got going give to old plants to the stock
