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ancellsfarmer:
Tricky to find in UK? try
http://www.aromatiques.fr/autres-plantes-medicinales/115-chou-daubenton.html#.
, and add to the gene pool!
pratinthegarden:
--- Quote from: Digeroo on November 09, 2015, 11:05:09 ---Hi Welcome to A4A
My taunton dean was eaten by the deer/slugs, and the daubentons grown from seeds turned into cauliflowers. But I do have the perennial variegated type going strong.
If you remind me again in the spring I will start off some cuttings. I just stuck some in the ground this year and most took. However postage is expensive these days, as they insist that anything lumpy goes as a small package.
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Thanks Digeroo.
That's very kind of you. If I still need them then,I will make contact.
Regards Bryan.
pratinthegarden:
--- Quote from: ancellsfarmer on November 09, 2015, 19:41:31 ---Tricky to find in UK? try
http://www.aromatiques.fr/autres-plantes-medicinales/115-chou-daubenton.html#.
, and add to the gene pool!
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ancellsfarmer. Thanks for that link. I tried to order but lost my bottle. I don't speak a word Martian.
Regards Bryan.
ancellsfarmer:
Google translate* will do the deed, to and from French certainly, to Martian may take a little longer. Would be worth growing on the Red planet, needs only a little water......
*https://translate.google.co.uk
squeezyjohn:
I have Taunton Deane bought as stems from a plant sale in Somerset 8 years ago and my first plant has only just died last year! So it is certainly a perennial. It is dark green with purplish ribs and is not curly. In winter and early spring the smaller leaves are one of the sweetest, nuttiest brassicas I've ever had - but in the summer they are more bitter and peppery. The growing habit is to grow upwards to about 6-7 foot with side-branches which bush out between the leaves and a well-looked after plant will cover at least a square metre! They really need supports of some kind as a strong wind will tend to knock them over - and unless you are free of pigeons (only possible on the moon in my experience!) then they need protection as the plants are quite strong enough for them to land on top of. They also suffer with whitefly and cabbage whites.
So this is one that needs to be planned in advance with some kind of structure in place to allow it to survive. I alway manure heavily before transplanting a new one as you can only top-dress once they're established. The method of propagation is to remove a side-branch which can be up to 3 foot long, remove all but the topmost leaves, and push it in to the ground as deep as you can possibly get it to go. The deeper you plant the stem, the better the first-year root system will be as it produces roots all the way down the stem below soil level. I would not suggest planting it at this time of year as it will be in a very slow growth period and it may rot in the ground. The best success rates are when transplanting in early spring just as you're sowing your first seeds.
I have plenty of plants which are producing many side-shoots - so if you're still up for it send me a PM with your address around the beginning of March and I'll post you a fresh branch to have a go from. If you do it now I'm sure to forget.
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