Many brassicas are biennials, and that includes kale, and I like kale. If you're biennial, that means you take two years to complete your life cycle: one to grow edible leaves - in the case of cabbages - and one to produce seeds. With kale being a hardy plant as well, I thought I'd let mine do their thing through the winter, to see what they might get up to in their old age. Allotmentiers don't seem to do that sort of thing very much. I don't really know why.
Here's a close-up of one of my curly kale stalks, one year old. It's sprouting all over the place. This makes me happy, and I hope it makes you happy too. What if it goes to seed and produces new edible leaves? That would be truly wonderful.
While last year's leaves have been eaten away, underneath, new life emerges. If things go according to plan, I'll never need to buy kale seeds again.
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