{"id":1632,"date":"2015-06-11T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1632"},"modified":"2020-06-18T10:03:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T08:03:12","slug":"daubenton-perennial-kale-x-purple-sprouting-broccoli","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1632","title":{"rendered":"Daubenton Perennial Kale x Purple Sprouting Broccoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, I crossed a Daubenton Perennial Kale with a Purple Sprouting Broccoli that just happened to flower at the same time! The seed (collected from the Daubenton) were sown in Spring 2013. 12 plants were overwintered (in a cold cellar as they usually die outside here) and I planted them out in the garden in spring 2014. The resultant plants were a mix of short plants like Daubenton and tall plants like the broccoli! The dream here is a perennial purple sprouting kale&#8230;. They were overwintered again from 2014 to 2015 and a few of the taller plants are now producing broccolis. I will monitor the plants to see if any continue to perennialise.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1633\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1633\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1633 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">June 2012, I transferred pollen from a flowering Early Purple Broccoli to a Daubenton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1634\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1634 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"600\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2-209x300.jpg 209w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2-300x432.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230;bagged Daubenton flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1635\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1635 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/3.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/3.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/3-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the Daubenton (left) that was the parent! Variegated Daubenton on the right&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1636\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1636 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/4.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/4.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seed pods developed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1637\" style=\"width: 721px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1637 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/5.jpg\" alt=\"5\" width=\"721\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/5.jpg 721w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/5-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/5-300x399.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The seed were sown early Spring 2013 and all plants were overwintered in the cellar and planted in a bed (quite close spacing) early April 2014: Here they are today just before harvesting, quite a mix, some tall, resembking broccoli and some short like Daubenton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1638\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1638 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/6.jpg\" alt=\"6\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/6.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230;and all still alive although at least two flowered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1639\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1639 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/7.jpg\" alt=\"7\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/7.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I dug them up ready to move into the cellar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1640\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1640 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"8\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/8-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/8.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Layed out to take pictures. As you will see in the next pictures, there is a mix of different leaf colour, one had reddish ribs, different heights, some sprouting low down on the stem etc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1643\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1643 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"11\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notice this one had flowered and seeded and a new branch had grown away.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1648\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1410931.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1648 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1410931-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"P1410931\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1410931-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1410931-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1410931-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1410931.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring 2015: Several of the taller Daubenton x Purple Sprouting Broccoli plants (sown spring 2013) overwintered in the cellar have produced purple sprouts. They are now being planted back in the garden (they&#8217;ve all been planted densely so as not to use up much space. I&#8217;ll now monitor them to see if any regenerate&#8230;. The one shown in the picture is interesting as a long stem broke off when I was harvesting to overwinter in the cellar (kales will normally not manage the winter here). I just pushed the broken stem deep into the soil and it made roots and survived the record mild winter&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1641 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/9.jpg\" alt=\"9\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/9.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/9-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1642 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/10.jpg\" alt=\"10\" width=\"721\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/10.jpg 721w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/10-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/10-300x399.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1644 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/12.jpg\" alt=\"12\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/12.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/12-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1645 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/13.jpg\" alt=\"13\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/13.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/13-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1646 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14.jpg\" alt=\"14\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1647 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/15.jpg\" alt=\"15\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/15.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/15-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, I crossed a Daubenton Perennial Kale with a Purple Sprouting Broccoli that just happened to flower at the same time! 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