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BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Sowalong – Kale 'Nero di Toscana' with Emma Crawforth

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Discover how to grow a delicious, nutritious gourmet vegetable from seed to add zest to meals all winter long with Horticultural Editor Emma Crawforth’s tips Get free kale seeds with our May issue, buy it here: https://bit.ly/BuyGWMagSowalong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:19.2

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0:30.3

Welcome to the Gardner's World magazine's Sewer Lomb series, the podcast that inspires you to grow more from seed.

0:53.3

Thank you. The podcast that inspires you to grow more from seed. I'm Emma and I'm the horticultural editor of Gardner's World magazine.

0:58.0

Part of my job is looking at the lists of seed varieties that we will give away with the magazine

1:03.0

and I had no hesitation in choosing kale near O'D Toscana for this year.

1:10.0

I'm a keen vegetable growerower nurturing my edibles on a decent

1:14.3

size plot where I have some grow every year favourites as well as experimenting with new varieties.

1:21.5

I'm happy to include Nero D. Tuscana in the category of plants I always grow. It has many virtues, but one of the most important,

1:30.7

must be that it's extremely hardy and puts up with the worst that winter can throw at it.

1:35.8

In fact, during the frozen weather in December 2022, my chard instantly flopped while my kale

1:42.9

was unperturbed.

1:49.2

That means I can pick the leaves all winter just when I'm in need of a health boost.

1:53.1

The health benefits of this vegetable are considerable.

2:00.3

It contains four times the vitamin C of spinach plus vitamin E, so it's great for our immune systems. Kail is also thought to protect against heart disease and cancer and support eye and bone health.

2:09.6

As with many vegetables, lighter preparation methods like steaming,

2:13.6

juicing or eating baby leaves in salads retain more nutrients.

2:19.0

Having said that, one of my favourite ways to eat kale is stir-fried in peanut oil with lemon

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