Showing posts with label Curly kale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curly kale. Show all posts

Saturday, August 27, 2011

A new beginning: Fall plantings!


After weathering stifling heat, all summer with little to show in my humble garden (it all burned up), I have bravely gone out and planted anew. The moderating temperatures helped get me out there again. Also, something ate the rabbits which were eating my crops, so that was another good point in favor of a renewed effort on my part.

As a cooler regime seems to be headed this way, it being late August and all, I decided to plant some radishes and lettuce. I did this last week after clearing out the weeds I’d let accumulate in both raised beds. I used a space of about four feet square and used up pretty much the remainder of my Little Caesar romaine seed. I also went ahead and planted a row of Cherry Belle radish as well as a row of kale, using seed that I had harvested from a single plant earlier in the growing season. To my amazement, many of the seeds germinated rather quickly and now I actually have hope of salvaging has been a meager growing season. I’ll just have to wait, water and weed now until the late fall harvest (I hope)!

Friday, May 20, 2011

Kale now making new little seeds!

After harvesting kale leaves all winter long from a single planting I made in 2010, I decided to let the plant go to seed the following season. It put out beautiful yellow flowers in the spring which attracted bees in the area. Then, through the miracle of pollination, small pods began to develop. I was interested to learn from reading another blog that even the flowers and immature seed pods are edible. I tried a few pods as part of a garden salad for my lunch and can report that indeed they are a nice addition, adding some ‘crunch’ to the fare. Alas, it was too late this time around to harvest any kale flowers, I’ll try that next spring.