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Brassicas

Cabbages, broccoli, kale, sprouts and other hardy brassica crops suited to the UK climate. Essential for cool season resilience and food security planning.

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How to Cook Sprouts with Bacon: Proper Technique

Timing matters more than method when you’re cooking sprouts with bacon. Treat each ingredient differently first, then bring them together for fat-coated greens and crisp rashers.

How to Cook a Red Cabbage: The Proper Guide

Slow cooking balances sweet and sour, keeps the colour vibrant, and turns a dense winter cabbage into something rich enough to sit alongside any roast or festive plate.

How to Cook Curly Kale

Thick stems and dense leaves need different treatment than flat-leaf varieties, or you end up with slime or leather. Here’s how to get tender, flavourful results.

How to Grow Kohlrabi

Cold-tolerant and quick-growing, kohlrabi is one of the most forgiving brassicas for British gardens. This covers sowing times, spacing, and using the crisp bulbs all year.

How to Stop Cabbage Moths Ruining Your Brassicas

Those white butterflies floating round your brassicas aren’t decorative. They’re cabbage moths, and their caterpillars are why growing kale and broccoli takes proper knowledge and effort.

Best Plants in Clay Soil and How to Work with It

Clay holds water, bakes hard in summer, and punishes gardeners who assume all soil behaves the same way, but certain plants actually thrive in these heavy conditions.

From Seed to Stunning White Heads: How to Grow Cauliflower

Cauliflower demands attention to detail that kale and sprouting broccoli don’t, but once you’ve grasped what the plant actually needs, it’s not impossibly difficult.

The Complete Guide on How to Grow Cabbages That Are Prize Worthy

Cabbage thrives in our cool, damp climate and tolerates the sort of weather that makes other crops sulk, from January sowings that mature by summer to hardy autumn varieties.

How to Grow Kale All Year-Round

Our cool, damp climate suits this hardy brassica perfectly, and with the right timing you’ll harvest fresh leaves from June straight through to April with barely a pause.

How to Grow Broccoli in Your Plot

British weather suits broccoli brilliantly, especially from September to March. This guide shows you how to time sowings, protect plants from pests, and grow proper heads worth eating.

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