One of our Kale ‘Nero di toscana’ plants is enormous. So enormous, in fact, that it is growing across the tiny path running through our vegetable patch, and I have had to harvest a number of the strap-like, green-black leaves. This is obviously a terrible hardship.
As much as I am loathe to talk about winter when the sun has finally started blazing down on the garden again, preparations should be well underway for the winter garden. There are only really a couple more weeks in which to sow kale and chard to ensure big fat plants which will withstand frost.
If you have run out of room in your vegetable patch, you can always sow into newspaper modules for transplanting in September, but make sure you use a potting soil which will keep the hungry plants well-fed. You could chop up some comfrey leaves and mix into the soil if you are worried. Once the plants are established, with a number of adult leaves, feed with comfrey or nettle tea to help them put on muscle.
Protect from cabbage white butterflies and their greedy offspring by netting or, if you have oceans of time on your hands, you can always pick the eggs off by hand. You’ll find them on the underside of the leaves in little clusters.
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