Fresh vitamins when the garden is otherwise sticks.

Sow

March 15 and again July 20. Very hardy.

Spacing

16–18 in. They get big.

Days

Cut-and-come-again from day 40

Harvest

Pick lower leaves. A freeze sweetens them. Don’t strip the growing tip.

Store

In the garden under a sheet or low tunnel is the best ‘storage’. Or blanch and dry.

Seed

Biennial. Overwinter and isolate from cabbage/broccoli.

Companions

Beets, onion, herbs.

Pests

Same cabbage worms. Aphids in hot spells — soap spray or a hard hose blast.

Winterbor and Siberian types out-winter here with almost no help.