Sea Kale

[headfullofbees]

This delicious, perennial vegetable is not available in shops in the UK, unfortunately, but I have struck lucky.
I'm returning home today, after spending 12 days in my static caravan in Luce Bay, SW Scotland.
Whilst exercising my dog, I found, about 3 miles along the shore, lots and lots and lots of sea kale.
I dug out 4 thongs last night, and will be planting them in my allotment tomorrow.

Sea Kale - Eat The Weeds and other things, too

Sea kale is nearly the perfect primitive food. It’s difficult to imagine it not being on primitive man’s menu. We know from middens that seafood was very popular with ancient peoples. Archaeologists think early man stayed on the shore because there is so much food there. Some coastal Indians of...

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[zigs]

Found it a little bitter but quite edible. Some folk blanch the new shoots under pots.

I tried growing it from seed on the plot a mile from the sea but it didn't thrive.