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Anonymous-0 · Mar 25, 2014

have you grown Kale?My daughter is vegetarian,and likes Kale,there seems to be more people interested in it around here,I Just thought I would mention it to you,being you grow organic,it might sell well? It wasnt hard to grow,and is very cold friendly,harvest it well into winter,lots of benificial vitamins etc,,,,

Dieselrider · Mar 26, 2014

Not Animal but, I grew a bunch of it last year.It grew well and put out lots of leaves all summer. Both inside the high tunnel and outside in the garden. Some leaves can get really big.

Animal · Mar 26, 2014

I have the seed and plan on planting it soon.

Dieselrider · Mar 26, 2014

You can check for yourself but, kale can be planted inside and transplanted out pretty early. I think as soon as the soil temp hits about 50.
Also check out my answer to your trellising comments down below. The link and clips might save you alot of time.

farmer steve · Mar 26, 2014

I've grown it in my garden the last 3 years. Can't say we took care or time in planting it and it always grew tall and thick. We've also tried swiss chard which is basically the same thing. Grass hoppers like the plant but if you can keep those things at bay we typically plant the same time as carrots or peas. The plants are very frost tollerant once established and a light frost in the fall will actually sweeten the taste. We've blanched it and froze it in freezer bags for kale, potato and sausage soup. Nothing better on a cold winter day.

Animal · Mar 26, 2014

You know fellas I have never eaten Kale, is it a salad? How do you cook it?

Animal · Mar 26, 2014

I did, have you done this before or is this your first time with the rollers? I was also wondering instead of the clips if you could not use zip ties loosely around the plant, cut and replace them as the plant grows.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 26, 2014

just like spinach!

hayray · Mar 26, 2014

I am gonna plant a whole bunch of it. I have a guy that will buy 100 lbs. a week. I talked to Animal about this a little while ago. Seems to be alot of interest in it. I am eating some for dinner tonight.

Dieselrider · Mar 27, 2014

I have used the clips without the rollers last year and they made tying tomatoes a snap. They cling to the string and fit loose around the stalk of the tomato plant. At 14 bucks per thousand they are cheaper than zip ties and reusable. Should probably disinfect before reuse though. They work excellent on my indeterminate tomatoes as they help me keep the main runners accessible for pruning off the suckers.

I haven't had any need to loosen them as the tomato grows up. You just add clips and anchor the new growth to the string further up as the plants grow.

What the rollers will do (I hope) is eliminate my needing to tie pieces of string up each year and alot of climbing up and down the ladder. Should be enough string on them to use a few years and then get the spools to replace the old ones. Gonna give it a try anyway.
Tomato clips

hayray · Mar 27, 2014

You can cook it but you don't have to, we add it to salad just as a salad green and then also cook it in stews. I froze a bunch of it last fall. The un-blanched kale turned out better then the blanched.

Larry NEIL · Mar 27, 2014

Same as Korfuse, wife grew it all the time, looks and tasts like spinach!

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