Paul & Becky’s Asturian Tree Cabbage

Although this is really a cabbage, it grows very much like a kale, so we’ve also included it here. It produces a 2 foot stalk with  a loose head on top. You simply take the huge leaves a few at a time to eat all year round. 

You can even keep it going for two years or more. Just cut it back when it tries to flower – it makes new growth, ideal for fresh cabbage in spring during the ‘hungry gap’. 

Cooks like a cabbage, rather than a kale, and also a key ingredient in the classic Spanish dish ‘Caldo Gallego’ – which is a delicious leaf, bean, and meat stew.

Tastes like cabbage, harvested like a kale . Short lived perennial provided the flowers are removed as they form.