English Giant Essex Rape – 200 Seeds
(Brassica napus)
R30.00
It is a traditional oil seed crop, but can also be harvested and cooked like any other garden greens.
Indoor Sowing: Early Spring and Late Summer.
Direct Sowing: Spring and Autumn.
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🥕 Vegetable Quick Facts
Uses
- ⓘ Plant Use: Culinary, Soil Improvement
Vegetable Info
- 🥬 Vegetable Type: Leafy Green
- 🍽️ Culinary Use: Boiled / Steamed, Soups, Stir-frying
- 🥗 Edible Part: Leaf, Stem
- 😋 Flavor Profile: Mildly bitter, Slightly Peppery
Growth Traits
- 🌱 Life Cycle: Biennial (Grown as Annual)
- 🪴 Growth Habit: Fast Growing
Growing Requirements
- 🌞 Sun Exposure: Full Sun
- 💧 Water Needs: Regular Water
- ☀️ Growing Conditions: Cold Tolerant, Frost Tolerant, Low Heat Tolerance, Moderately Drought Tolerant
- 🟤 Soil Preference: Deep, Loam, pH 5.5- 7.0, Rich Organic, Sandy loam, Well-Drained
English Giant Essex Rape is a member of the Brassica family. Rape is a traditional oil seed crop in many European countries like France, Germany, England and Poland. It is a flowering annual related to mustard, broccoli and cabbage. It is also used for fodder, for human consumption and as a cover crop and green manure in autumn and winter. Rape can be harvested and cooked like any other garden greens, they have large leaves with hardly any stem so they cook quicker.
The stem is erect with a size of approximately 1.5m. The lower leaves are characterized by serrated margins while upper leaves are heart-shaped. The flowers are small, yellow and grouped in terminal clusters. It generally flowers in late spring with the process of pod development and ripening occurring over a period of 6–8 weeks until midsummer.
Culinary Uses
- Can be steamed, stir-fried, or added to soups like any other garden green. It cooks down quickly and is a popular addition to traditional regional diets.
Garden and Soil Benefits:
- High Biomass: Produces a massive amount of leafy green material that turns into rich humus when tilled under.
- Winter Hardy: Provides excellent “living mulch” to protect soil from erosion during heavy winter rains.
Growing English Giant Essex Rape
Indoor Sowing: Early Spring and Late Summer.
Direct Sowing: Spring and Autumn.
- Rape can be grown on a wide variety of well-drained soils, and prefers a pH between 5.5 and 8.3.
- In rape growing, nitrogen is a very important nutrient and it is even considered to be the basis of its production yield.
- They are cool weather crops, so growing rape in the spring or autumn is preferable.
- Plant in full sun, with at least 6 hours of sun per day.
- Direct Sow seeds 2 – 3 cm deep in rows, and with a row spacing of 20 to 45 centimeters apart.
- Seedlings should be thinned to 10 – 15cm apart.
- Water rape seed immediately after planting and once a month during the growing season to keep the soil moist.
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