Couve Tronchuda – 50 Seeds

• Couve Tronchuda is also called Portuguese cabbage or Portuguese kale. The Portuguese word Couve, is used for cabbage as well as for both kale and collards.

Unlike most cabbages, Couve Tronchuda doesn’t form heads and grows bulky, wide, spreading jade green leaves with fleshy white ribs, therefore it is considered as a leaf cabbage, collard or kale. It looks and tastes very much like collards.It is sweeter and milder in flavor than heading cabbage and can be used throughout the whole season by picking the outside leaves.

Tronchuda is the key ingredients in Caldo Verde, a tasty Portuguese soup. Leaves are also great for stuffing and  can be used like Swiss chard.

Growing Tronchuda Cabbage

• • Plant the Seeds in autumn or spring.
  • You can also start the seeds in pots about six weeks before the planting date.
  • Transplant the seedlings into the garden at the beginning of autumn or mid-spring.
  • Needs to grow in fertile soil, rich in organic matter.
  • You can expect to harvest your first leaves a few months later.
  • This vegetable can survive hot summers, withstands frost well and may be over-wintered in temperate regions.