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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David in Normandy 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?

Assuming that they are like rocket, yes, but not catastrophically.
You must gather the pods when they are ripe, but when only a few
have opened - or tie some muslin or equivalent around them. Then
let them dry thoroughly in a bowl or bucket, break them up by hand
and winnow out the seeds (which will sink to the bottom).


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

David in Normandy 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?

What Nick said. I'll just add that it's dead easy- I just cut the seed
heads when the pods are yellowing-if they get fully dry, they'll
shatter-and put in a large paper grocery bag. Once dry, you can just bash
them about a bit and the seeds will fall to the bottom. Pour between a
couple of pails on a breezy day, and you're done! You can do any of clan
Brassica like this.

I like Red Russian AKA Ragged Jack.


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On Apr 27, 9:26*am, David in Normandy
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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

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?

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On 27/04/2012 19:28, harry wrote:
On Apr 27, 9:26 am, David in
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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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Stewart Robert Hinsley

On Apr 27, 6:57*pm, David in Normandy
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On Apr 27, 9:26 am, David in
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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?

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The usual way to collect seed is to tie a paperbag over the seed head
& wait for it to fall.

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


Does it come true though David? And is it an F1 ?
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On 02/05/2012 16:30, Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , David in
Normandy writes
The only other plant growing next to the kale is land cress. I don't
know if this counts as a brassica though?


Does it come true though David? And is it an F1 ?

I guess I'm going to find out. Don't think it is an F1.

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