Cavolo Nero - final picking
My Cavolo Nero has reached the end of the line too now. It was starting to form flowers, so I felt that it was best to pick it all and get one last batch of leaves. In the past I have a couple of times left Cavolo Nero to flower. It first produces a mass of tiny shoots a bit like miniature Sprouting Broccoli, which are quite nice to eat if you catch them at the right time, but they soon go stringy. Then eventually the flowers open like a shower of bright yellow stars! The bees love these flowers, but there is a downside too – the plants grow huge and straggly, taking up more space than I can tolerate in my compact little plot. So up they come…
You can see here how the stems of the Cavolo Nero have become elongated as the tips begin to form flowers.
The lower part of the stem is bare where the leaves have been picked from the bottum upwards:
Taking the plants indoors, I cut off and discarded the lower stems, but kept the bushy “crowns” intact.
That’s a decent amount of greens! Because we were not going to be able to use the crowns immediately, I washed them and packed them into large “Stayfresh Longer” bags. I find these bags very useful indeed. They keep fruit and veg fresh for ages. The Cavolo Nero would probably last 3 weeks if I wanted it to.
Source: http://marksvegplot.blogspot.com/2014/02/cavolo-nero-final-picking.html
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