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I seem to have a new veg.  It has strouts up the stem and a hard ball cabbage on top.  My question is when do I eat the stroutage.  Do I treat is as a cabbage and eat it now, or wat until the frost has improved the favour like sprouts?   The actual sptrouts have mostlhy blown so the top will be the main crop.

Is it going to taste like a cabbage or will be be like a mega sprout?  I hate cabbages to the thought of a cabbage with a sprount flavour is great.

All sprouts sown except the red Falstaff were F1 hybrids.  So this one is defininely a rogue.

What are strouts?? Could the rogue be Petit Posy, the new cross between brussels and kale? I am growing it this year but the top is still open.

It of a type I mean sprouts,  Whoops.

No definitely not petit posy this is definitely a cabbage/ sprout cross. 

Sounds sproutrageous.... :D....... If it were me I'd let it go to seed, try to make sure it self-set adn then see if the trait is stable and then find out if it's edible.... but then I'm wierd like that.... I'd say try the cabbage...

chrisc

I agree with chriscross. Guard it with your life, let it go to seed. Who knows we may see Digeroo"s famous sproutage seeds in the catalogue in two years time. Its not a walking stick cabbage is it!!!!!!!

I actually tried to look up the word strouts!

No idea - I would probably leave it to mature a bit and then eat. But then that's why there are no veg named after me in the catalogues...

Don't you just love the possibility it is a new species!  Yes, save the seed. You can't be THAT hungry, Digeroo.