Topic: You tell me to leave Kale until the first frosts............

[tim]

.............by which time it will be 3 feet high & tough??

[Mrs Ava]

Nope, I enjoy mine year round - summer salads, autumn stir fries, winter stews.  LOVE ME GREENS!

[Hyacinth]

Nothing at all to do with kale, but everything to do with GREEN...how green does calabrese have to be before it's edible? Mine's a sort of grey-ey colour  - and lots of it :o

[cleo]

Yep that`s the colour-a sort of blue green?

And Tim-snap-at least one thing is growing properly-take the kale now cos you know it will grow back.

Tomorrow is another day-probably the last for my cat `Rags`-even hardy perennials fade some day :'(

[Hyacinth]

Stephan, I am SO sorry :(

[tim]

Should have eaten more kale?

Sshhh! I have been eating the other row since it broke cover.  But someone said leave it!.

[tim]

Like this, Lishka??

[calendula]

Should have eaten more kale?

Sshhh! I have been eating the other row since it broke cover.  But someone said leave it!.

I suggested leaving it because the flavour improves with a frost - they are gutsy and strong flavoured plants, lots of iron in them, a frost helps to convert the sugars, and you'd only be picking the younger leaves anyway, they are usually always big plants - for me they are part of my winter produce and I wouldn't dream of picking them until about late October onwards (maybe sow them a bit later unless you want to eat them now)

[Hyacinth]

And Tim - thanks for the picture - yep they're like that 8) Goodeeee ;D