It didn’t take long to figure out I don’t like broccoli-raab. Toooo bitter for my taste.  Rather than try to force it with something that I don’t like I decided to pull the 6 or 8 plants and use the space for something I did enjoy, like zucchini. I pulled the plants and when I was starting to chop them for the compost pile I noticed the roots didn’t look right. I hadn’t grow this plant before but had grown enough other brassicas to know what the roots are supposed to look like. I didn’t have my glasses with me but I suspected club root. My stomach sank. Clubroot is a disease that, once you have it you have it forever.  I called Anita ad asked if she was coming back to the garden soon, I wanted a second opinion. When she arrived my suspicions were confirmed.
I would go on to find it in the Helpline cauliflower that never really did look right and seemed to be perpetually wilted despite my watering religiously. It appears the days of planting kale, broccoli and other brassicas are all but gone.