My two favorite seedlings for this project, which definitely need to be planted out for some more space… First, the pretty Mermaid’s Aurora seedling with the dissected cotyledons:
And then this lovely perennial kale seedling which is a very rich green and shiny like a greasy collard (compared in pic to another “normal” perennial kale seedling from the group.) Most of the seedlings in this batch resemble the matte leaf with varying shades of purple or green on the veins.
I’ve gotten the occasional oddball with 3 cotyledons, or off-shaped/warped ones, but never obviously healthy dissected ones. That plant is doing great, and I’m going to be violating my hands-off tendencies a bit with it to make sure it survives to make seed if possible.
Is this because of all the Diversity & wide crossing?
Feels like the Landrace Gardening style creates more opportunities for these fun happy little accidents to occur!
