via Gardening Question of the Day (from the Old Farmer's Almanac) on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
How do you harvest kale -- take the whole plant or just the leaves? (answer).From The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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via Skippy's Vegetable Garden on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
I planted this kale early last spring. It was bitter when tasted it in September. Not now. It made one of the best bowls of soup I've ever had.
We've had several good cold nights now, which helps improve the flavor of kale. Today, at 25F, as our first serious snow started to fall, I picked a big bunch. Since I also had some nice dried beans from my summer garden, I opened my Portuguese kale soup recipe. . . .
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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to kale, recipes on 2007-12-05, 00:18:16
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via Skippy's Vegetable Garden on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
Two superlatives. Tonight may be one of the most beautiful nights of the year. And tonight I made the best soup I have ever tasted! Garden kale, 'Tongues of Fire" dried beans, my frozen garden tomatoes and local keilbasa. Yummm!!
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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to kale, recipes on 2007-12-04, 00:33:42
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via Ilona's Garden Journal on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
I couldn't help myself. I was at the former "Wild Oats", now "Whole Foods" store yesterday and there were the last of their flowering kale offerings on sale for 99 ¢ each. You know me by now... if you read here often. I am a frugal gardener, but also an addicted one. I could not pass up that tempting combination of good price-good plant that I had been wanting. So I bought two and stayed out after dark last night planting them up tout suite. I had the perfect idea for them, and since I was out there gathering leaves in the wheelbarrow ( which several of the kids were asked to do, but somehow ??? didn't get done!). . .
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Posted by Ilona Reblogged by Old Roses to kale on 2007-11-27, 00:24:17
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via Skippy's Vegetable Garden on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
I'm so pleased to get a good harvest of kale. Midsummer, my kale leaves were filled with holes from the green caterpillars of the white cabbage butterfly. To holey for me to eat. I've had the plants covered with garden fabric since them. Now the leaves are very nice. I sauteed them with garlic, then added water and blanched about 5 minutes. Very tasty. I've read they are sweeter after a frost so I'm looking forward to eating the rest of the leaves this winter.
The variety is called Dinosaur Kale. Seeds were from Seeds of Change.
Brassicaceae
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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to harvest, kale on 2007-09-28, 06:53:27
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via Skippy's Vegetable Garden on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
My kale is now covered. I bought some galvanized stainless wire and made hoops and then covered them with row cover and secured with plastic pegs. I picked a good batch of it a couple weeks ago (photo below), but ended up composting it because there were too many holes in the leaves for it to be appetizing. Hopefully the cover will help. Of course, it doesn't get rid of the caterpillars that are already on the leaves. It just prevents the moths from laying more eggs. . . .
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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to kale on 2007-08-20, 00:33:13
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via Calendula & Concrete on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
Red Russian Kale
Decisions about which vegetables to grow in my plot are often heavily influenced by the pretty pictures on seed packets. Oh, that looks nice, I'll think to myself, without any thought whatsoever of what I'll actually cook with the vegetable once it grows. Such was the case with Red Russian Kale, a beautiful purple-veined, bluish-green plant. . . .
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Posted by Christa Reblogged by Old Roses to kale on 2007-05-08, 23:46:31
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via Gotta Garden on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
For you, blackswamp_girl, I hope this is what you meant:
Brassica oleracea (Acephala group) 'Redbor' Ornamental Kale
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via My California Garden in Zone 23 on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
Here is a stunning garden bed hanging out this winter covered in a frilly white ornamental kale. This plant can take the nippy cold nights we have had this week. As many gardeners (and consumers) are aware, California is experiencing record cold temps at night. Many citrus crops are suffering and will be reflected in grocery costs in the coming months.
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via Digital Flower Pictures.com on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
Curly Leaf Kale
Brassica oleracea 'Chidori White'
(BRAS-ee-kuh)
I was impressed by the amount of different varieties of Ornamental Cabbage and Kale I saw at the farm markets I visited. Each place had 5 or 6 types. Peacock, Emperor and Dynasty were a few of the ones I saw. They also had a nice selection of odd pumpkins and gourds. . . .
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via Horticultural on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
I relished my first fennel harvest at the weekend, and tried to recreate a fennel and orange salad I'd had in Umbria, Italy. The main key is fresh ingredients rather than any particular culinary magic, and the fennel was straight out of the ground, so it tasted delicious. You can either squeeze a little of the orange juice over the salad to act as a dressing, or add a little extra virgin olive oil and white wine vinegar to taste. An alternative suggested by veggie chef extraordinaire Rose Elliot is to use pink grapefruit instead of orange. I also sampled...
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Posted by Jane Perrone Reblogged by Old Roses to fennel, kale on 2006-10-17, 16:33:17
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via Greengirl on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
This week’s spinach scare has impacted lunch rooms and dinner tables across the country. Even our small startribune.com kitchenette was abuzz.
Before the overabundance of bagged baby spinach, other greens competed for our palate. No, I’m not talking about iceberg lettuce. I’m talking about kale - tasty, tasty kale. . .
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via Skippy's Backyard on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
Another picture of my new ornamental
kale.
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via Spade Work on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
In My Kitchen Garden
suggests we call this Nero di Toscana Cabbage or Kale Lacinto (as it was sold to me) Cat Cabbage because it has nine lives.
Well, fingers crossed and with much touching of wood, pride before the fall and so on, I've yet to have a failure with this one - and I'm still using four year old seed. . . .
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Posted by John Curtin Reblogged by Old Roses to kale on 2006-09-07, 22:55:36
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via Tribe.net: Grow Organic! on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
... but now it is all covered with Aphids. I can't even get them to wash off in the sink well... (I do it , but it takes forever) Does anyone know the nutritional value of aphids..... ants like em so I was thinking that I might as well just stir-fry them as well. they are plantred amongst zuchinnis and pumpkins and there is a forest of aphid covered kale.
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