Crambe maritima - sea kale

We had a nice crop of broccolis this year. Did some tasting with visitors, their main complain was that it tasted just like regular broccoli so it was a bit boring. Not too bad!

Most of what you read about sea kale as a food is about the blanched shoots. Those have not impressed me, perhaps my soil was not healthy enough to produce large heads like you see in the old drawings.  

But the broccolis are great, and we also enjoy the collard-like leaves in fall.
Going to try boosting fertility with some manure and interplanting coppice nitrogen fixers in 2010.
Flowers smell like honey from 20' away and are really beautiful.

Note that it can spread from root suckers when roots are damaged (like by digging others). Whenever you transplant one, a few sprout up from the roots you left behind. This photo shows one at Berksire Botanic Garden that is sending out some suckers from cracks in the stone fence.