Tree kale/Perennial kale

Lubera.com, the online store of our sister company, has been selling premium vegetable plants for several years. These are grown in 1.3-litre square pots, packaged with care and then reliably shipped to customers. The price for most plants is currently around EUR 5.50, with a price increase of 10% planned for 2025. But how big is this market? What are Lubera's experiences in general? We are not initially discussing which companies could produce these young plants and where they are sold, we...

We use the term 'EverVeg®' to describe a wide range of different vegetable plants, all of which share the same characteristics: edible parts of the plant, perenniality and the ease of growing them in home gardens. Here we present this group of vegetables as a whole; we show the importance of Ever Veg® in the overall assortment and present the consumer trends that favour EverVeg®.

The production of ready-to-sell tree kale plants from the young plants at Lubera Edibles is anything but difficult; you can get tree kale ready for sale or trade in a short time. The strong growth character of tree kale alone ensures that our tree kale young plants develop splendidly shortly after potting and you will have plants ready for sale after about six weeks, especially at cooler production temperatures.

Tree kale (Brassica oleracea var. ramosa, which is sometimes also known as 'perpetual kale”, is an old cultivated plant and makes a harvest of fresh cabbage leaves possible for an entire year, without that constantly new cabbage young plants must be planted. The names perpetual kale and tree kale are already quite accurate and descriptive as far as the growth character and endurance of this particular vegetable are concerned. In the following, we would like to introduce you to this...