[neeptastic]

I inherited my current allotment at the end of May this year, while clearing out one of the netted areas came across these, I'm assuming they were self-set from a previous years plantings.



As they looked like "something" I left them to grow.

Anyone have any idea what it might be, no sign of flowers yet, still growing, currently some over 1meter high.

I'm hoping it's some kind of broccoli.

Cheers John

[snowdrops]

It's definitely a brassica  . Could be sprouting brocolli or spring cabbage. Have you checked the stem for sprouts. They look like they haven't been thinned out whatever they are & it's too late now. At the worst you should be able to harvest some tasty leaves

[Mogman]

Well certainly brassicas, John, but I'm not expert enough to guess which! Taking a wild guess, since they're growing tall, broccoli or sprouts would be my guess. Either way you have some good green for the winter. As far as I know, all of the usual brassica greens are edible. I love 'em! Always eat the tops of turnip, sprouts, cauli, broccoli, etc.
Jon

[Growster...]

They might be the rest of a seed bed, John. The previous gardener might have used them to bring on plants, and didn't use them all!

Like Snowdrops says, they should be lovely leaves for steaming, and you may even get a surprise with some purple sprouting broccoli come Spring...

[beesrus]

The more blue looking ones are the broccoli.
They will probably need a bird net over Winter

[Goosegirl]

Looking at the way the leaves thin out at the bottom of their stems, they look like broccoli.

[neeptastic]

Thank you all for your suggestions, I can't wait to see what it turns out to be now. Will let you know.

[neeptastic]

Took a couple of photos yesterday, excuse the whitefly.

[DD.]

I think you may have a mix there, but that one looks all the world like a brussels sprout with it's rounder leaves.

[cadalot]

I think you're right there DD looks like a sprout to me too

[Goosegirl]

That one certainly does and shoul;d have buttons forming on the stem, so a nice mix!

[neeptastic]

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll let you know how it turns out...

[neeptastic]

Finally pulled these up and fed them to the chickens, they loved them :-)