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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: goodlife on April 18, 2011, 14:41:33

Title: Quess what plant?
Post by: goodlife on April 18, 2011, 14:41:33
In photo there is 2 different forms of the same sort...Grannyjanet managed to 'forage' the darker sort for me from other end of the country..
And variegated form is from France.
I'm soooooo excited about them ;D..not that they look that exciting ::)
I've been wanting 'one' for a while now..since somebody here first mentioned it ::)
SO!...WHAT ARE THEY? ;)
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Title: Re: Quess what plant?
Post by: BarriedaleNick on April 18, 2011, 15:42:36
Mm looks like some sort brassica....
Title: Re: Quess what plant?
Post by: goodlife on April 18, 2011, 16:34:44
Yep..its getting 'warmer'... ;)
Title: Re: Quess what plant?
Post by: goodlife on April 18, 2011, 16:36:28
Hint; Carol Clein got one given to her garden....
Title: Re: Quess what plant?
Post by: detailista on April 18, 2011, 16:37:14
looks like mint or a vareigated nettle to me! ???
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Post by: Poppy Mole on April 18, 2011, 16:44:21
Broccoli ?? :-\
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Post by: Bugloss2009 on April 18, 2011, 16:54:59
isn't the variegated one just sick?  :) Mine usually are
Title: Re: Quess what plant?
Post by: goodlife on April 18, 2011, 17:18:59
 ;D No..not sick..just fancy French sort...
Title: Re: Quess what plant?
Post by: 1066 on April 18, 2011, 17:21:44
perennial kale? can't remember the exact name tho!
Title: Re: Quess what plant?
Post by: goodlife on April 18, 2011, 17:24:35
YEEAAH!...you got it!... ;D Daubenton kale
Title: Re: Quess what plant?
Post by: 1066 on April 18, 2011, 17:26:40
Woo hoo!!
That's the name, all I could think of was Babbington Leeks  ::)

Let us know how you get on  ;) It looks a splendid plant to grow
Title: Re: Quess what plant?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on April 18, 2011, 19:45:29
You already know I'll be after some!
Title: Re: Quess what plant?
Post by: grannyjanny on April 18, 2011, 19:56:45
I think we can be called detectives xtrordinair from now on ;D.
Title: Re: Quess what plant?
Post by: goodlife on April 18, 2011, 21:18:10
Our champion plant hunter is Janet here..she's been keeping telephone busy and propably managed to pile up huge telephone bill with her hunting...and it all started from Robert's video clip..so now me, Janet and Carol Klein, we all have same kale... ;) 'correction;...and Charles Dowding...
That variegated French sort was just happy 'accident'..this nursery's web site had plain greensort on photo and what I got looked totally different ???
But I've read from other sites and growers that there is such a thing as variegated form..so I know I'm not been swindled ;D
Title: Re: Quess what plant?
Post by: grannyjanny on April 18, 2011, 21:21:39
Don't forget Charles Dowding. He called me a sleuth ;D.
Title: Re: Quess what plant?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on April 19, 2011, 16:20:43
I probably posted this before, but if not it's worth reading through this thread. http://alanbishop.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=brassica&action=display&thread=4341 . I didn't know a thing about these before I found it.