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From summer-sown plants, turned into woody canes for some time now, I’ve been harvesting curly kale and cavolo nero. See here for my brassica manifesto, http://vivekagardens.com/cavolo-nero-and-other-brassicas/. I’m taking the tender little leaves, and where I decapitated one cavolo nero, baby leaves have sprouted which are all the tenderer. Frost sweetens kale, but we’ve maybe had …

Thanks to the mild winter leaf crops are still harvesting well with only protection from pigeons, Miss Haversham style under fine white netting. They are looking very pretty on the plate and tasting very nice on the palate. L – R: Lettuce ‘Valdor’ (sweet), blood-veined sorrel (sour), radicchio ‘Rosso di Treviso’ (bitter), lettuce ‘Lattughino’ (also …