Hello
My family used to grow flatpole cabbages for livestock feed in South Devon, but I have no idea what the variety was. Someone near Torquay used to sow them and we would buy transplants and borrow a cabbage planter, and I spent several hours bent over
planting them - hoeing was also great 'fun'. We also used to grow a yellow/orange fleshed mangle but again I have no idea of the variety. William Woys Weaver wrote a great book called 'Heritage Vegetables' which does have some information in but not
enough details.- we need something like this for agricultural crops and crop varieties. Maybe old NIAB type information leaflets would have something and there was an agricultural research station somewhere near Dartmoor or Exmoor that probably did
trials. I live in Canada now and don't have access to stuff that you might be able to find out. Seed-a-holic is a good Irish seed company that might be able to help you. Tuckers on Asburton I think has gone out of business, but they used to do a lot
of farm seeds. I would love to hear what you find out.
Bill
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