"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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What are you planting now? And what is your climate?



East coast NSW OZ (warm temperate, late winter). I am not planting yet
due
to the possibilty of a late frost.

Wise man given the stinker we got last year in October.

I have all my summer seedlings in trays
in a plastic hot house ready to go in about 2 weeks. I have 48 cultivars
in
trays mostly veges but some flowers.

You've been very busy!

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

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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

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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.

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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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.

They sound like worth trying. Did you use seeds?

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"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message

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.

They sound like worth trying. Did you use seeds?



Yes, no problems.

David

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
...
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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What are you planting now? And what is your climate?



East coast NSW OZ (warm temperate, late winter). I am not planting yet
due
to the possibilty of a late frost.

Wise man given the stinker we got last year in October.


Oh, and where are you that you get frosts in October? Up a hill somewhere?

David

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message

What are you planting now? And what is your climate?

East coast NSW OZ (warm temperate, late winter). I am not planting yet
due
to the possibilty of a late frost.

Wise man given the stinker we got last year in October.


Oh, and where are you that you get frosts in October? Up a hill
somewhere?

Do you remember the killer frost that all of Southern Oz got last year? I
think it stretched from the Blue Mountains right down into Victoria and got
all the grape vines etc. I'm in the Southern Tablelands of NSW.