How to take cuttings from Taunton Deane Kale
If you are lucky enough to have a Taunton Dean kale, ( which is a very rare plant) you may wonder how your can make new plants. As this kale does not have flowers and thus cannot grow seeds you have to take cuttings.
New plants can be taken simple by pinching off side shoots that have knobbly ridges on the stem.
Trim the stem and put in a pot of damp compost, within ten days the cutting should peak up and start growing roots which should be ready to plant out with six weeks or so.
Another way of getting new plants is to put the cuttings straight into the ground leaving about two thirds of the stem below the surface of the soil .
This should be done from October till May, then you will have leafy vegetables to eat with hardly any work at all and they should grow and yeild for six to eight years.
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