62 CONTINUOUS CROPPING 



OTHER KINDS OF KALE 



Other kinds of kale useful for continuous cropping 

 are the thousand-headed and that which gardeners 

 know as Labrador kale. The latter is a very hardy 

 variety of curly kale, which, on account of the rapid 

 second and third growth it will make after being cut 

 (assuming the land to be well manured), has become 

 known in certain parts of Ireland as " Cut-and-come 

 again cabbage." 



These varieties of kale do not withstand the drought 

 as well as marrow-stem kale, but they withstand frost 

 better than any other variety of winter greens. They 

 are also slower in growth, and hence are not as suitable 

 for either early feeding or broadcasting as giant rape 

 or hardy green turnips. They are better suited to 

 clayey land than to light land. 



Both may be sown in early spring for autumn and 

 early winter feeding, and, as indicated, will give a 

 second crop and even a third if the land is well manured. 

 On this latter point it may be here remarked that all 

 these so-called annual plants of the cruciferous or cab- 

 bage tribe are really biennial in habit^ — that is, will give 

 a second and sometimes a third crop, provided a fair 

 amount of the parent stem is allowed to remain in 

 the ground at the time of the first grazing or mowing, 

 and the land is well manured. 



GIANT RAPE 



With the possible exception of white mustard, giant 

 rape is the quickest growing of all the cruciferous fodder 

 crops. With well-tilled, well-manured land, in a moist 

 summer the writer has often grown it 4 feet high in the 

 space of twelve weeks, getting a yield of from thirty to 



