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Brassicas are a fantastic crop especially for cooler climate vegetable gardens because they provide a fresh supply of greens through the cold winter months. This video goes through the steps of growing kale and other brassicas from seed from preparing the seed bed to after transplanting. Use the seed packet guide for spacing of the plants. If you have any further questions they do not hesitate to ask!
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Keywords:
Brassicas
How to Grow
Kale
Cabbage
Broccoli
Sprouts
Huw, did I understand rightly. you begin seed in one raised bed then replant them in another bed for proper spacing? PS. Nice sense of humor.
nice update huw. i love kale
why is your dad doing the work?…..move your ass youngster!!
Hi Huw,
I think my favourite growing experience has to be potatoes. You never quite know what you are going to get until you harvest them – and I need the exercise too!
Good luck all who enter and Merry Christmas!!
Steve
Great video. Are you getting water from a well or a river or tap from the city? Just curious thanks.
I'm waiting on an allotment plot, been watching your videos and getting very useful tips, never tried Kale and will be giving it a go.
Cheers.
thank you. most useful
just wanted to say that I have watched one of your older videos and this one. And I wanted to congratulate you on the growth you made yourself into hosting your show, keep it up!
Thank you! Great video and great help!
Thank You ! Great video. Really enjoyed seeing the"total" picture, including the replanting process. Is it okay to eat kale raw ? I don't mean in juicing but in say Tacos etc. (have heard rumors 🙂 that it is only to be cooked – thought it would be nice to hear it from someone who grows and eats it. Thank you for these You Tube videos, I am not on the other social medias 🙂
thanks for the fun video
Do you recommend a book I can use?
great …many thanks
hi im asking how many days it takes to grow the seed
transplant when 6 inches ? I thought you just put the seeds direct into the ground?
Ca we have the link for the podcast please?
Great video Huw. Thankyou for sharing. Yum love the Kale crisps as i call thrm. Salt ,pepper and oil , so easy.
Hi im a complete beginner so apologies if I sound stupid but why and how do you transplant the plants from where to where ? Why? Thanks
All my brassicas I sown in the greenhouse frazzled away in the heat even with the doors and windows open they are tiny and just growing new leaves but would I be ok sowing sprouting broccoli and things like that now the way you did it or am I to late?
You are a great gardener Hugh, I bought your 'veg in one bed' book and it is fantastic.It has actually changed my view on gardening.
Hi Huw, I really enjoy your videos, I love to learn and you seem to be a very good teacher in the garden. I planted cabbage, kale, broccoli and cauliflower for the first time this year and didn't know about the white butterfly that lays the eggs on them that turn into worms, they devoured my plants and were hard to remove from the wrinkly kale leaves, what do you recommend for me to do for next year's garden to be more successful? I used neem oil, Epsom salts wet and dry and a soap veg oil and mint mixture ( the last one seemed to work the best but much damage was already done). Thanks so much for your help, blessings to you from Fowler OH usa, Angela Karing
Great tips.
Commenting on old video, I wonder if you ever check back on these 😀 Looks like you are transplanting them quite close to each other. How tightly can they be planted? I have very limited space, and I would like to make most of it! I have planted kale approximately maybe three plants into a square meter, could I plant more? The bed is extremely deep with at least 80 cm of good soil, and decent indirect sunlight on it too (not too intense as we are here in Finland, but long hours as the sun does not really set at all during summer). Could I go up to maybe 5 plants or even more? Thank you for your lovely videos, I've been watching thru these and it was very cute to see you as a young boy on your first videos! (tomato tips was the one I saw first)
I raise my brassica seed in seed boxes in a polytunnel (but it has mesh end walls) as my climate isnt really hospitable to exposed seed. Then i prick them out , pot them up for a month and then plant them out. I plant one crop in early spring for summer eating and another sown late summer for winter harvest
Do you need to transfer the seedlings to a different raised bed, or can you just thin them?
Thanks for the great videos.
Hi Huw, do you use any kind of heat mat to germinate seeds in trays? I struggle to get nice healthy plant starts, they tend to the flimsy delicate side. I need to improve my technique for next season.
how is the kale so so so so curly?
Apologies in advance if you've already answer this (and feel free to ignore) but I wondered what you do to protect the brassicas from caterpillars and aphids? Thinking of making a hoop system over the beds, but I've done this before and the little blighters still got in! Don't like to use chemicals. Up my allotment white cabbage butterfly is rampant as well as woolly aphids. Thanks.
They just keep eating their roots after i transplant and even bought more small plants 🙁