Sowing, growing and watering the kohlrabi in the vegetable garden
If you want to harvest your kohlrabi early, you cannot avoid a preculture. It can be sown outdoors from April to May, but this requires the kohlrabi young plants to be grown. If the tuber is sown in February, it must be grown under glass. A temperature of 18 to 20 degrees is necessary for it to germinate optimally. It comes into the bed in the garden at the end of March / April. The seedlings must be planted high, this ensures the formation of the kohlrabi tuber. Especially with this formation of the tubers, the soil needs to be watered evenly. If the vegetable garden is well composted, the kohlrabi does not need any fertilizer.
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Harvesting the kohlrabi
If the kohlrabi is planted approx. 25 centimeters and a distance between the rows of approx. Planted 30 centimeters, the planted vegetables can be harvested after 8 to 12 weeks. If the tubers have a diameter of approx. 10 centimeters, they are particularly tasty and tender. If you leave kohlrabi in the ground for too long, they will become too big and woody quickly. So the best harvest time for most varieties is May to October. Different varieties can also be harvested well into winter. There is a wine-growing climate even into spring.
The kohlrabi - Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes
Kohlrabi has many names and is used in different versions. This is how you can turnip beet, turnip, turnip cabbage or turnip cabbage:
- Fry them in hot fat or grill them on the garden grill - the kohlrabi slices are breaded for this
- Cook with or without light sauce - serve as an accompaniment to potatoes and meat
- raw, cut into strips or slices, as raw vegetables or grated as sauerkraut
- steamed as a side dish
- cooked as a soup, casserole or stew
- stuffed with meat roast and grilled
- Kohlrabi leaves can be prepared like other leafy vegetables.
Rich in vitamins, the kohlrabi side dish can be served with almost anything. Kohlrabi contains protein and fiber and only a small amount of fat or carbohydrates. It contains minerals such as phosphorus, calcium, potassium, magnesium and iron. The kohlrabi can also come up with vitamins A, C, B 1, B 2 and niacin. The kohlrabi leaves that many consumers throw away are also extremely good vegetables. They have 10 times the amount of iron and calcium and even 100 times the amount of carotene. The vitamin C content of the leaves is twice as high as that of the tuber.
Tips & Tricks
Harvest the kohlrabi as early as possible because it is then still tender. Always peel the vegetables and ideally eat them raw. As a side dish, do not let it cook too long, it is better to just steam it. Also use the rich leaves of the kohlrabi tuber as a vegetable.
