Kale Seeds

Brassica oleracea convar. acephala. Grow all the year round as a 'baby leaf' indoors on the windowsill. Outdoors if given wider spacing it will make an abundance of densely curled leaves over a very long period. Winter hardy as a full sized plant.

Produces tasty, nutritious leaves when little else is available. Very winter hardy, the colour intensifies after first frost. Excellent source of both vitamin A and vitamin C.

Unusual, very dark wrinkled leaves. Easy to grow and delicious as baby leaves for salads or left for very winter hardy mature plants. Versatile and nutritious, can be used both raw and cooked.

New & Exclusive 2008

Highly decorative, dark green, red veined leaves which show more colour as colder weather approaches. Can be eaten as a salad leaf. Mature plants show excellent winter hardiness, supplying fresh winter greens when they can often be scarce. Long season of harvest. Prefers a moist, rich, well-drained soil. Good source of Vitamins A, C, K and folate and provides 50% of the daily requirement in a single 80g portion.

Fully grown plants have attractive dark green, deeply savoyed, strap-like leaves with traditional winter hardiness, making this a useful winter to spring vegetable at a time when fresh garden produce is scarce. Can also be grown as a baby salad leaf ingredient adding texture and a peppery taste to mixed salads.

Dark, tightly curled leaves. Excellent quality, very cold hardy, good for difficult or windswept gardens or poor wet soils.

(Jersey Cabbage) This famous Channel Islands heirloom kale makes a tall, straight stem, 2m (6ft) tall topped with a rosette of edible leaves. The stems when mature in the autumn can be cut, carved and varnished to make attractive walking sticks. Plants left in a second year may run to seed or increase in height to over 3m (9½ft).

Curly Kale! Recent breeding has given more intensely curled, succulent and nutritious, dark leaves which stand well without yellowing and can be picked for much of the year from successional sowings. Fully winter hardy.