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I'm going through all my seeds and planning my plot at the moment. I'm looking to try something a bit different that isn't too tricky (my experiment with romanesque last year was an abject failure). I read a peice in the Guardian about easy veg to grow and it talked about kai-lan or chinese broccoli. Apparently it is a mega cropper, requires little care and tastes delish. Sounds too good to be true, has anyone tried it?
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It looks very much like leaf beet aka perpetual spinach, have you tried that (it's dead easy)
A lot of Chinese veg does better in the early spring or autumn, not in the "heat" of summer
(not that we get hot summers round my way anyway)All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb. -
I've tried it and we enjoyed it in stir fries. As T_S said it does not like heat and I did not sow till the middle of July. It was ready to harvest in about 5 weeks. I also grow mizuna and mibuna which are prolific croppers and stand well into winter, I even cleared the snow off a mizuna that was completely covered and it was still good to eat.History teaches us that history teaches us nothing. - HegelComment
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