If gai lan likes climate in your area you won't regret it, far and away the easiest col crop i've ever grown and the most tastey ... its range seems to be wide, does best in cool wet of spring and fall here but continues to produce in heat of summer, just goes to seed incredibly fast then ... overnight, i swear - trick is to harvest tops just as they begin to show white flower, the first hint of bloom, wait four hours more and bingo you've got seed for next year ... of course keeping your own seed you have lots so you chuck some down every ten days or so ... when it's first coming up you harvest whole plants to get the right spacing, even the roots are tender then
[edit] - one thing with gai lan is it can get real tall and fall over, i'm going to try roping some in with cord this year, at say 40cm up, maybe 50cm [14-18in]
I spend very little time on things like cilantro, gai lan, lettuce, greens of all sorts, onions etc ... minutes per week, of which much is in harvest, got routines down pat ... one allium we want to get here is a shallot-like thing called in México cebollita de cambrai, these are the lightly grilled green onions you get with carnitas at quality taquerías ... we may have this now, or something close, having saved seed from a shallot called Ambition, only shallot i know of that is commercially available and matures from seed in one season ... allium cepa var. aggregatum ... easy as anything to save seed from the large ball, and in the meantime they're pretty, look like the flowers which they are ..... we may have crossed something here in the last years, possibly with a japanese green onion and this Ambition, should know this year, i'm just comparing seed now from two separate patches of the 'Ambition', they are quite distinct, grown dozens of metres apart ... hmmm, got to make a onion plan to get evidence as scientifically as standard logger modus operandi will permit -g-
Also cos lettuce, called romanitas in México ... loves it here, and we may have crossed the standard Valmaine [sp?] with a dwarf english variety [called Gem? - lost original package, not sure] .... but distinct types, seed of one seems to catch better, grow faster, bolt to seed straightaway but delicious if you catch it at the right hour, and produces as continuously as you plant it, maybe fifty to seventy days later
Rainy day today so more appealing to type about dirt rather than play in it -g- .... about fifteen little places around the ranch getting foxglove established today, over the last week i wandered around and raked them, scattered seed, and spread lime with stove ashes, this is their first rain .... cheers
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