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/^uuut uauuage tupers ana cabbage worms: I’ve never used Bt, a common organic pesticide. I simply spray the seedlings, beginning in the pot stage, with a garlic solution which prevents the white moths from laying eggs on the plants. Then I re-apply a few times a week and after any rain. The plants will grow large enough to hold their own against much caterpillar damage.
It’s getting a little late for broccoli planting, unless you have good sized starts of a quick-maturing (55 days or less) variety on hand. The plants need to set buds before the daylength shortens too much, by mid November.
Kale, collards and rapini, or broccoli raab will have plenty of time, if planted now, to produce ample harvests before winter. One of my favorite collards variety is an old southern heirloom, “Green Glaze”, so named for its shiny leaves. It is exceptionally resistant to cabbage caterpillars, as the glazed leaf surface isn’t appealing to them.
Collards taste best when nipped with a bit of light frost, as most people know, but also when the leaves are picked at a smaller size.
For kale, Red Russian and Lacinato are my picks, for flavor and appearance. Kale was something I avoided like the plague until I grew my own! Huge, tough and sulphur-tasting leaves of supermarket kale had daunted my palate. If any leafy green needs to be boiled or otherwise cooked for more then five minutes to reach tenderness and taste appeal, I just don’t think that’s a good sign!
Rapini is an Italian broccoli-like leafy green which gets a small yellow flowering head,
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