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Sea Kale (Crambe maritima) seeds

Contents: Approx. 10 seeds
Open-pollinated variety, seed tested regularly

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32,65 kr

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SKU: CRA01

GTIN: 4250601201849

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The wildly growing sea kale is a real gourmet vegetable. It has large, fleshy, slightly blue kale leaves and plenty of white blossoms. The seeds are contained in spherical pods. There's one seed in each pod. You can continually pick leaves or bleach the young sprouts by covering them in spring.

In the Middle Ages, the tender leave stalks comparable to broccoli used to be steamed and eaten. Along the coast of England, where it could often be found above the tidemark on pebble beaches, the natives traditionally piled pebbles around the plant's sprouts and, in this way, bleached them. Like this, it has established in Great Britain throughout the 18th century as a native vegetable. The sprouts are served like asparagus: Steamed, either with sauce hollandaise or simply with molten butter.

Today, sea kale is sometimes grown as a decorative plant. The plant also occurs wildly on wash margins of the Baltic sea but has become very rare in Germany.

Plant description

Species:	Brassicaceae
Root system:	Runners
Flower colour:	White
Special features:	Needs cold to germinate
Use:	Ornamental plant Vegetable
Lifecycle:	Perennial
Eventual height:	40-80 cm
Flowering months:	May June July

Growing advice

Soil type:	Fresh
Sowing depth:	1 cm
Planting distance:	40 cm
Row spacing:	80 cm
Sunlight:	Full sun
Germination temperature:	10-18°C
Germination time:	2-6 weeks
When to sow outdoors:	October November December

A perennial shrub that grows up to 1m high. In mild locations hardy, otherwise, hibernate protected.
Loves lots of sun. The lushly growing plants need a distance of approx. 80cm.
Sowing: Preculture. Crack the seed pods open and sow the dark seeds. Germinates at approx. 10-20°C in 7-14 days. In the first weeks, prevent waterlogging. Plant outdoors in May.
As sea kale grows on the coast in nature, it can be fertilized with a little bit of table salt from time to time.

Other names

Botanical name:	Crambe maritima, Cakile pontica, Cochlearia maritima, Crucifera maritima
German names:	Küstenkohl, Meerkohl, Seekohl, Strandkohl

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Meerkohl
2016. Das Aufknacken der Samen, ohne den Samen zu beschädigen ist fast unmöglich. Gibt es da einen Trick?? War sehr nervig. Hab 12 gesät und keiner ist gekeimt.

Ilka , 28.01.2017

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Manufacturer information: Magic Garden Seeds GmbH | Junkersstraße 7 | Regensburg, Germany, 93055 | service@magicgardenseeds.com | https://www.magicgardenseeds.com

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