Vegetables

Depending where you live, winter kale can be left in the open garden or grown in a season extender like a cold frame, mini hoop… Read More »What Do You Do With Kale In The Winter?

Kale flowers are not poisonous. You can pick them as soon as they appear and eat them raw or cook them—both ways are delicious. The… Read More »Can You Eat Kale Flowers?

That’s because crushing the leaves breaks down the cell walls of two important chemicals naturally present in kale—the myrosinase enzyme and glucosinolates. When those walls… Read More »Why Is My Garden Kale Bitter?

biennial. While considered an annual, ornamental kale is botanically a biennial. This means that it produces foliage the first year and flowers the second year.… Read More »Is Flowering Kale An Annual Or Perennial?

Cut off three inches of the top bud from the center of a lacinato kale plant, including several budding leaves. Cut right below a leaf… Read More »How Do You Grow Kale From Scraps?

Kale is ready to harvest when the leaves are about the size of your hand. Pick about a fistful of outer leaves per harvest, but… Read More »How Do You Know When To Harvest Kale?

How to Harvest Mature Kale. All varieties of this vegetable are harvested in the same way. For mature plants, grasp the stem of a mature… Read More »How Do You Cut Kale From The Garden?

Those tiny flower buds that appear on your kale plants at the end of the season don’t necessarily mean the end of your crop. In… Read More »Can You Eat Kale After It Bolts?

Harvesting: Kale is a frost-hardy cut-and-come-again plant. Young leaves can be picked from autumn to mid-spring. Does kale grow back after you cut it? Is… Read More »Can Kale Be Cut And Come Again?