All about Taunton Deane perennial kale

[@beckyneil]

Excellent thank you so much

[@InArcadiaSum]

As well as increase through cuttings, I've made my Taunton Deanes spread out by layering i.e. nicking the branches that lay on or close the ground, pegging them down to the ground and earthing over that bit. 100% with you on the pigeon/Cabbage White challenges. The latter are also a nuisance because they leave that white stuff under the leaves, which needs washing off.

[@squeezyjohn1]

Yes, layering is a good way to increase your clump ... that annoying white powdery stuff is from whitefly, which it can get if it's stressed. But it doesn't suffer from whitefly nearly as badly as Brussels sprouts or cavolo Nero!

[@tallneh5]

Thanks, I came here to find some info about Taunton Deane Kale, as I have some cuttings I've rooted. Very useful info. Now I find myself listening to Bellowhead for the first time in a couple of years. A man of many talents.

[@elainehutchinson753]

thank you I bought a cutting this year and its doing very well, I've put some cuttings in the greenhouse hope they do well but thank you for your in-depth casual approach

[@erniewhitfield6454]

than😀ks for a very imformative vedio i bought 1 last year its come my favourite mines like a tree

[@piers9186]

Useful kale video - thank you.

[@MsAusarian]

Just got mine today. Thanks for this.

[@danielibarra3670]

Amazing kale!

[@31stevieP]

Brassicas and Bellowhead ….. Next Album ?

[@kiki29073]

Have you started selling the cuttings 6et? You alluded that you would he in comments when the video came out. I've been looking for a source for this plant for months now. I'm in the USA and can't find an authentic seller. The palnts are either Tree Collards or Walking Stick Kale variety. I want both of those bit, I especially want the Taunton Deane. .

[@reuse_or_die]

Me too. I live in France and it's proving hard to find a stockist or anything similar. I'd love to see how it grows here we have harsh but short winters and hotter but increasingly wetter summers. With climate change we need as many varieties as possible to experiment with

[@Earth_Systems]

Great video. Thank you. Haven’t seen this in any garden centres. Any ideas where I might go to buy a plant ? Thank you.

[@IM-zh5bm]

I am from Taunton Deane just typed the place in YT instead of Google made me laugh bad, will someone do a bridgwater strain, good soil up the Fairfield Lol

[@organick4]

I ‘d buy cuttings!. Is this the kale that you can use the stems to make walking sticks?

[@squeezyjohn1]

Hi Nick, no, you're thinking of "walking stick kale" lol ... if you tried to make one out of this it would be a) not very straight and b) not very strong!

[@iamkarl]

Hmm, so if the cuttings survived a week in the car, presumably they'd survive in the post. Any thoughts of sticking them in your shop? Maybe even bare root seedlings? I'd be up for that. My uncle in ireland gave me some red russian kale seeds - they are great as they self-seed, and tasty too.

[@squeezyjohn1]

Watch this space, why else would I be advertising it, lol!

[@iamkarl]

@@squeezyjohn1 Excellent. Also worth mentioning that anything in the brassica family benefits from having melodeon CDs played to it ;-)

[@helencho1995]

@@squeezyjohn1 i'd love to buy some cuttings as well. I did buy some daubenton but this sounds even better!

[@PaulNewport]

Can you grow this from seed to start with, or do you need up buy plants?

[@squeezyjohn1]

I've never seen seeds of it available ... and in 10 years my many plants have only made one single solitary flower which didn't set seed. It's so easy to propagate from cuttings though!

[@berniebartolome6617]

Hi John, do you sell cutting by any chance? Thanks.-Bernie

[@polkadot8788]

Are you auditioning to be the new host of Gardeners World? 😉

[@squeezyjohn1]

Yes

[@ioananegru9445]

What time of the year can we do this ?

[@squeezyjohn1]

It will work at any time. If you put cuttings in now they will have a good chance to make roots and then grow slowly through the winter.

[@paulgutches5253]

How long does it live?

[@squeezyjohn1]

I've had them get up to 7 years before they start to get woody and stop producing so many leaves ... but the beauty is that you just stick another cutting in the ground.

[@joanlaborena6687]

Can they grow in zone 4a

[@squeezyjohn1]

Sorry ... I don't know what zone 4a is ... they grow well for me in the south of England.