Planting Kohlrabi

Well, I sowed my Kohlrabi seed last week, it’s been so many years since I last grew it that I can’t remember exactly what I did before, but I seem to remember it was pretty easy to grow!

Kohlrabi Superschmeltz

So I read the instructions on the packet of seed, and followed them exactly…yeah, well, more or less.  The first thing I did was to prepare my seed bed by adding some compost…

Mucky compost, dolopril lime and my trusty helper

As for those weeds in the raspberry patch behind, I removed them after sowing my seed... really...I did!

And some peat moss…

And some dolopril lime, and digging it all in.

Ready for kohlrabi seed

I planted the seed thinly in three rows.  The seed package suggested sowing them ½” apart, thinning them to 4” apart.  Well I’m no math whiz, but they want me to destroy 7 seedlings out of 8?  At a cost of 2 cents a seed?  Sounds like a good plan for them!

Yes, I could transplant those seedlings, but I have only so much room, and I’m not really sure that the family will like these unique vegetables.  Rather than waste my seedlings, I’ve just sown them very thinly and will have enough seed for the next couple years left in the package.  It does state that the usual expected seed life is three years so…

I hope everyone likes kohlrabi so I can justify giving them the garden space, they’re so bizarre looking that I would grow them just for their extraterrestrial effect!

All done!

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