Green Savoy Cabbage
Green Savoy Cabbage is a beautiful addition to a winter garden, with its bright burst of colour, flower-like appearance and crinkled leaves. The plant will create a medium cabbage head that can be harvested a few inches above the ground. This Cabbage is a slow bolt variety; it may create a couple of miniature cabbages that can be harvested before the plant goes to seed. We keep these Green and Purple Savoy cabbages because they have a sweet flavour, even when eaten raw, mix the two colours to make rainbow sauerkraut.
SOW: Autumn/ Winter/ Early Spring
CROP ROTATION: First and Second-year beds
Harvest: 60 days, harvest when the head is at the desired size.
Purple Savoy Cabbage
Purple Savoy Cabbage is a beautiful addition to a winter garden, with its bright burst of colour, flower-like appearance and crinkled leaves. The plant will create a medium cabbage head that can be harvested a few inches above the ground. This Cabbage is a slow bolt variety it may create a couple of miniature cabbages that can be harvested before the plant goes to seed. We keep these Green and Purple Savoy cabbages because they have a sweet flavour, even when eaten raw, mix the two colours to make rainbow sauerkraut.
SOW: Autumn/ Winter/ Early Spring
CROP ROTATION: First and Second-year bed
Harvest: 60 days, harvest when the head is at the desired size.
Celery Stringless
Celery is a great addition to the pick-and-go garden; Breaking the stalk off from the outside in, enjoy a nibble while walking around the garden. Celery thrives when it is well-water harvested in winter giving the celery a fresh crunch; Over summer celery can taste dry and chewy with the summer heat.
We found our Celery at a farmers’ market, and planted it in a retired chicken coop every year it goes to seed falls over and dozens of celery plants reappear. This Celery has been with us for over a decade walking around our garden and we couldn’t be happier with its work.
SOW: Late Summer/ Autumn/ early Winter/ Early Spring
Crop Rotation: Same bed. When it goes to seed, stump it and let it resprout.
HARVEST: 120days
NOTE: Plant in clumps of seedlings as this will help them handle the frost.
Cos Lettuce
Our Cos lettuce is known for its open head and flower-like shape. Our seedlings are easily divided by breaking apart their roots and planting in four to five sections, providing you with ample amounts of lettuce. Every year we choose to collect seed from the best flavoured Cos thriving in the roughest conditions. Even in a spent bed, this Cos will thrive. Cos will develop a bitter taste if it gets too dry, so don’t forget to add water. They are easily harvested, by taking the best-looking outer leaves and allowing the main plant to continue to grow.
SOW: Autumn/ Winter/ Early Spring
CROP ROTATION: First and Second-year bed
Harvest: 30-60 days The plant will handle winter, and added mulch will save water evaporation.
Frilly Lettuce
Frilly Leaf Lettuce has frilly leaves in a Flower-like shape. This lettuce thrives through summer although it will like a slightly shaded spot and as with all summer plants, will need to be watered. They are easily harvested, by taking the best-looking outer leaves and allowing the main plant to continue to grow. Succession plant your frilly leaf lettuce at the start and end of spring to have lettuce all summer long.
SOW: Spring/ Early Summer
CROP ROTATION: First and Second-year bed
Harvest: 30-60days
Black Kale
Towering over your winter garden is black Kale grows like a nutrient-dense tree. Our winter kale loves the frosty conditions and tastes better after getting hit by its first frost. Easily harvested, by taking the best-looking outer leaves and allowing the main plant to continue to grow, this is what gives it its tree-like disposition. Kale is a biennial, plant it in Autumn when the cabbage moths are slowing and enjoy it for the next two years. If your Kale goes to seed in spring chop off the flowers and let it continue for another year. Our Kale has been with us for over a decade(as we are big smoothy lovers), so it loves our frosty climate.
SOW: Autumn/ Winter
CROP ROTATION: First and Second-year bed
HARVEST: Matures in 60days
Giant Spinach
Our English spinach is a giant variety giving you 20 to 25cm long leaves, for bigger leaves plant in a partly shady spot. Like with a lot of heirloom varieties our spinach has different variants from the same seed stock, one of the variants’ creates an arrow-like leaf, and the other has a round leaf; We have been selecting over time the round leaf.
SOW: Autumn/ Winter
CROP ROTATION: First and Second-year bed
HARVEST: Matures in 40days