Cavelo Nero

This is the first time I've grown Cavelo Nero, or Tuscan Black Cabbage, and I'm completely sold. I've been picking this for a couple of months now from just two plants and I can't keep up with the growth. It has a richer, nuttier tast than normal cabbage and is the stuff to use in Minestrone soup. Growing ball type cabbages is fine but they take ages to form and then you have to do something straight away with all that cabbage. Anything you can harvest over a long period is a boon for the backyard veggie patch.