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The Winter Kitchen Garden | 5 Hardy Italian Brassicas

14.90 

Five frost-hardy Italian brassicas for Irish winters. Sow June to August, harvest October to March. Your garden keeps producing when everything else stops.

Most gardens stop producing in October. These do not.

Five brassicas that thrive in cold, wet Irish conditions. They do not just survive frost. Some of them taste better because of it.

What you get

  • Cavolo Nero Lacinato di Toscana — Tuscan black kale. The star of winter soups and stir-fries. Frost improves the flavour.
  • Cima di Rapa 40 Days — fast-harvest broccoli raab. Sow in summer, eat in autumn. The classic Italian side dish.
  • Pak Choi — vigorous and quick to mature. Mild flavour, excellent in soups and stir-fries.
  • Red Cabbage Tete Noire 3 — frost-resistant winter cabbage. Dense purple heads, stores for months.
  • Cauliflower Verona Tardivo — late winter heritage cauliflower. Harvests when nothing else is available.

Sow June to August. Harvest October through March. No polytunnel required.

All Franchi Sementi varieties, DAFM registered for Ireland. Dispatched from County Longford by An Post.

From your wellies to your belly. Grow it, harvest it, eat it.

Weather data: MET Norway (NLOD licence)
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