David Hare-Scott wrote:
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Right now I am picking asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, peas, several
letuces
and leafy greens, leeks, colards, kale. Waiting for strawberrys and
artichokes.
Waht are collards? I've seen references to them but never come across
them


Collard greens are a brassica, a bit like kale in that they don't form a
head and you keep cutting them and they last more than one season. The
leaves are quite large and fleshy where kale is thinner. Cabbage moth grubs
don't bother them nearly as much as cabbage or cauliflower and they keep
going in hot weather.

David


That reminds me. In Victoria I have seen the first white cabbage moths.
Time to get out the Dipel.