Cabbages & Kale
Cabbages & Kale are perfect additions to your Autumn veg patch. They are easy to grow in the autumn and winter and great for using in stews, soups and roasts. Delivered between September and mid/late October.
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Cabbage – Spring Green (Autumn)
£5.99
(10 plug plants)Cabbage Greens to enjoy in early spring
This is a dwarf variety that can be planted quite close together (25-30cm). When planted in autumn you can expect to harvest it in very early spring the following year. Once the heads have matured they will form a loose head and you can harvest the whole plant. You will receive a growing guide with the plants.
Variety: Spring Green
Number of plants: 10 plug plants (organic*)
In the kitchen: Enjoy spring green cabbage in stir-fries, steam it, boil it and all sorts. We rather like it cooked up in tasty bubble & squeak. With a poached egg on top. Mmm.
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Cabbage – Winterjewel (Autumn)
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)Bring on the bubble & squeak!
This is a fabulous cabbage to grow over winter for a good supply of greens. It is very compact, so perfect for smaller plots and container growing. You can harvest outer leaves through the winter or wait until late winter to harvest whole. Plant about 25cm apart.
Variety: Winterjewel (organic*)
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
In the kitchen: Great for stir-fries, braised or cooked down with kale and spinach.
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Cavolo Nero Black Kale – Nero di Toscano (Autumn)
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)A popular kale plant for autumn growing
This Italian kale has beautiful dark green leaves and looks really striking in the vegetable patch when it’s fully grown. In fact, many people choose to plant it in borders for exactly that reason. It’s easy to grow (easier than many other brassicas) and will provide you with leaves for several months, right into spring. You’ll find it grows slowly over the coldest months, but you should be able to enjoy a crop from late November onwards, depending on the weather. You’ll receive a complete growing guide with the plug plants when they arrive.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Nero di Toscana (organic*)
In the kitchen: Add kale to stews, steam it, or fry it up with a little garlic butter.
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Chinese Cabbage – Wong Bok (Autumn)
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)Cabbage Greens to enjoy in early spring
Grow these crisp cabbages through autumn and winter to harvest in spring. Keep them protected from frost. You will receive a growing guide with the plants.
Variety: Wong Bok
Number of plants: 10 plug plants (organic*)
In the kitchen: Enjoy Chinese cabbage in stir-fries, steam it, boil it or use raw in salads.
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Curly Kale – Green Curled Dwarf (Autumn)
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)Easy to grow, hardy and wonderfully nutritious
This is a very popular, compact curly kale that is an extremely nutritious leafy veg that looks great and requires little attention to produce a good crop. It is exceptionally hardy and grows really well through autumn and winter giving you a nice, constant supply of healthy greens from your garden. If you are short on space, this can be grown in pots.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Green Curled Dwarf (organic*)
In the kitchen: This is an incredibly nutritious vegetable. It can be steamed, baked or fried with a drizzle of olive oil and sprinkle of seasoning to make delicious kale crisps or used in smoothies.
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Kale – Red Russian (Autumn)
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)One of our favourite vegetables to grow for the winter!
You get really lovely tones of colour on this kale plant as it grows, making it a very attractive addition to your veg patch, and of course it’s uber healthy too and easy to grow. It is a great grower for autumn/winter, and will provide you with lots of lovely leaves right through to spring. It will tolerate frosts and even snow, although its growth will slow down in such cold temperatures. On milder autumn and winter days it’ll keep on growing. You will receive a full growing guide along with your plug plant delivery.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Red Russian (organic*)
In the kitchen: Red Russian Kale is the sweetest of the kale types. An incredibly nutritious vegetable, it can be enjoyed steamed, baked in a gratin or used in stir-fries, stews or even smoothies.
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Broccoli (Calabrese) – Green Sprouting (Autumn)
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)For a crop of sprouting broccoli in early spring
This is a green sprouting variety that will produce successive spears for you to harvest. You can either harvest them whilst small and tender, or wait until they form a larger head. Planted in autumn you may get the first few spears before Christmas if it is mild enough, otherwise, it’ll be a spring crop that will hopefully see you through until planting time in May. The plug plants will arrive with a full growing guide.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Green Sprouting (organic)
In the kitchen: These broccoli spears are great steamed, roasted with a little oil or stir-fried.
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Kale – Rote Krauser (Autumn)
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)A curly kale that turns deep red as it gets colder
As this curly kale plant grows, its leaves slowly begin to turn and by winter they are a gorgeous purple-red. It’s a little larger than our green Curly Kale (green curled dwarf) and better suited to growing in the ground or in raised beds where it can have a little more space. Growing kale is straightforward using plug plants – just plant them in the ground and keep them well watered. It is best to net them to protect from birds and butterflies, but full growing advice is in the guide included with your plug plants and makes it super simple.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Kale – Rote Krauser (organic*)
In the kitchen: Use kale steamed, baked in a gratin or chucked in stir-fries, stews or even smoothies.