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Growing Kale

April 12, 2014 by Jeanne

Kale photo by missyredboots, Morguefile.com

Growing kale is easy but you must like this leafy green vegetable to grow it…you’ll get plenty of kale from just one seed package, that’s for sure. Kale can be grown in many gardening areas and produces plentiful greens for all your favorite kale recipes.

Growing Kale

Kale is best grown directly from seeds, so buy seed packages in the early spring when they’re available. You’ll need good garden soil with a pH around 6.5 or so. Kale can tolerate some shade, but sun is preferable.

Plant the seeds 1/4 to 1/2 inches deep in rows. Thin the rows so that the plants are about eight inches apart once the plants begin to grow. Keep them well-watered, and your kale seeds should germinate in just a few days to a week or so.

Kale can be harvested at almost any time during the growing season. You can snip off the leaves, like you do with lettuce, so that the plant continues to produce kale. One of the reasons many gardeners like growing kale is because it produces quite a lot from just a small patch.

When the plants are finished for the season, pull up the entire plant, shake off the soil from the roots, and compost the plant. Unless it’s gone to seed, it can recycle back into the compost for next year’s garden.

 

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  1. Denise D Hammond, CGFM-Retired

    April 12, 2014 at

    I also do not like kale. One of my tasks at cooking school was to make a raw kale salad. I tried, I really tried, but no matter what I added I could not make it taste good. When the instructor asked what I thought of it I said it tasted like last week’s garbage. He actually thought it was good. Must be one of those things you either like or dislike, like cilantro.

  2. Jo

    April 12, 2014 at

    I make a soup with cannoli beans and kale which I really like. The kale softens right down.

    JO ON FOOD, MY TRAVELS AND A SCENT OF CHOCOLATE

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