• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • Nancy Reading
  • r ransom
  • John F Dean
  • paul wheaton
  • Jay Angler
stewards:
  • Timothy Norton
  • Pearl Sutton
  • Tereza Okava
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • M Ljin
gardeners:
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • Matt McSpadden
  • thomas rubino

Tyfon / Holland Greens

 
gardener
Posts: 5591
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio,Price Hill 45205
1221
forest garden trees urban
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
This is a hybrid of a stubble turnip and Chinese cabbage that sounds amazing.
Self sowing, mild, cold hardy?,heat resistant abbut it seems to have disappeared from American seed suppliers.
Yet it's still available from some UK suppliers.

Komatsuna seems pretty close, but it bolts pretty easily.
 
steward & manure connoisseur
Posts: 4959
Location: South of Capricorn
2938
dog rabbit urban cooking writing homestead ungarbage
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I brought some seeds here a few years ago and tried it a few times-- never with any success. The slugs got most of it, and what did survive didn't get huge and had that miserable look that made me think we're too warm (9b, although i can grow artichokes and kale just fine). I bet it would do better in colder places, and if you've got slugs/snails I would start it in containers or whatever and only transplant out once they're strong enough to stand up to a slug or two.

(I bought it because it was advertised as loving heavy clay, which is very much what I have)
 
pollinator
Posts: 820
Location: South-central Wisconsin
333
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I grew some one year. The taste was so strong even my chickens refused to eat it.
 
William Bronson
gardener
Posts: 5591
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio,Price Hill 45205
1221
forest garden trees urban
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Seems like they are not the amazing plant that is advertised!
Just as well, seems like they are hard to obtain anymore.
 
I have gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, keep me here with this tiny ad:
Your suggestions have been mashed into the PIE page - wuddyathink?
https://permies.com/t/369924/suggestions-mashed-PIE-page-wuddyathink
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic