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Siberian Kale
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Siberian kale (often Brassica napus leaf types sold as kale) offers frilly, blue-green, cold-extreme hardy leaves that bounce back after hard freezes better than many B. oleracea kales. Texture is softer and more tender; flavour is milder and sometimes slightly mustardy. Gardeners in harsh winters rely on it for late greens. Use like curly kale but expect quicker cooking. Excellent for cold-frame and deep-winter harvest. Distinguish from true oleracea Scotch if seed purity matters; in the kitchen both read as kale.
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Extreme-cold leafy brassicas from Siberia entered European and later American seed trade.
Siberian kale was promoted for northern US and Canadian winter gardens.
Homestead and cold-climate gardeners favoured Siberian types for survival greens.
Seed companies still listed Siberian kale for zone-challenging winters.