I like kale. I really do. Which made it all the worse when I found a large package of it at a super low price at Kroger, the local supermarket, and brought it home in January. And then it sat in my crisper drawer…and sat…and I forgot it was there. Until the smell began. Faint at first. Then growing ever more persistent until I was forced to open the crisper drawer and discovered…”adventures in indoor composting.”
So my latest use for kale; direct composting!
My tomatoes each year so far in the Virginia garden have blossom end rot. That’s usually a signal that calcium and other trace minerals are lacking from the soil. Well, kale is high in calcium, right?
So I dug a big trench down the center of the raised bed, held my nose, opened the huge bag of now inedible kale, and poured that whole mess right into the vegetable bed. A quick scoop of soil later and the kale was buried in an unmarked grave. And I, hopefully, have discovered a new use for kale – food for my tomatoes!