{"id":69036,"date":"2017-10-14T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-grow-great-brassicas-from-brussels-sprouts-to-cabbages\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T17:03:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T10:03:02","slug":"how-to-grow-great-brassicas-from-brussels-sprouts-to-cabbages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-grow-great-brassicas-from-brussels-sprouts-to-cabbages\/","title":{"rendered":"How to grow great brassicas \u2013 from brussels sprouts to cabbages"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPay attention to those you planted earlier in the year, particularly if you want to brandish your own brussels on Christmas DayIf I have a true love, it must be the genus, brassica. I didn\u2019t expect to fall so hard. It\u2019s hardly a glamorous one: its members are wide and varied, and often pungent \u2013 think of the sulphurous tang of boiled cabbage or the whiff of fermented sauerkraut. But I find that when I look upon a\u00a0brassica I see the most beautiful of vegetables. I\u00a0love how they look nestled among the flowers of my garden; I regularly make vases of kales, and marvel at the packed interiors of cabbages.The wild cabbage, Brassica oleracea, is a diffuse and polymorphic species, which is another way of saying it is good at self-love. A long time ago we took one wild and wayward species, and selected and selected and selected until a wildling became a kale, became a cabbage, became broccoli or cauliflower or a brussels sprout. For brassica nerds, there are eight major cultivar groups. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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