In message , David in
Normandy writes
On 27/04/2012 19:28, harry wrote:
On Apr 27, 9:26 am, David in
wrote:
I've run out of seeds for my curly kale and don't have access to buy any
more of the original variety. How do I harvest seeds from the plants?
They are all running to flower at the moment. Any tips on how to collect
the eventual seeds? Will they just scatter themselves everywhere unless
I do something?

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If you have different brassicas, they cross pollinate freely (also
with wild brassicas), you get some really odd things

The only other plant growing next to the kale is land cress. I don't
know if this counts as a brassica though?

No. Land cress is Barbarea verna. It's a crucifer (Brassicaceae) but not
a Brassica. It's more closely related to Rorippa (yellow-cresses),
Cardamine (bitter-cresses, etc) and Nasturtium (water-cresses) (tribe
Cardamineae) than to Brassica, Sinapis (mustard), Diplotaxis
(wall-rocket), etc. (tribe Brassiceae).

It requires rather drastic intervention (somatic cell fusion) to produce
hybrids between Barbarea and Brassica.
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