YouTube: Our Favorite Kale Varieties – What We’re Growing This Fall
Our latest YouTube video takes you on a tour of our favorite kale varieties that we're growing this fall in the Gardenerd Test Garden.
Kale varieties include Siberian, Lacinato, Red Russian, Scarlet, Vates Blue Curly and Tronchuda Beira.
It’s Kale Season!
In honor of our first kale harvest (albeit the lower leaves of each young kale plant), I want to celebrate the start of kale season with recipes. Fall is my favorite growing season, mainly because kale grows without attracting aphids.
The finished salad we'll be making for Christmas dinner.
Recipe: Kale Salad with Pomegranate and Maple Pecans
This Christmas we'll be cooking from the garden. Kale is going gangbusters out there in our warm-winter garden, so we'll feature it in the holiday feast with this Kale Salad…
Flowers appear at the tip-top of our tree kale plant.
Guess What! Tree Kale Does Go to Seed
I've heard colleagues say that tree kale never goes to seed, that it can only be propagated by cuttings. Well, my 10-foot tree kale would beg to differ. It's gone…
Tree kale, a perennial vegetable with deep roots.
YouTube: Propagating Tree Kale
This one is for you kale lovers and permaculturists out there: perennial tree kale. Yes, it's true. Imagine a year-round supply of kale that doesn't fall prey to aphids in…
Risotto is worth the time it takes to cook it slowly.
Recipe: Tuscan Kale Risotto with Mushrooms and Rosemary
It's kale season, and we have (don't gasp) 28 plants...or so...growing in the Gardenerd test garden; 10 different varieties to be specific. What can I say, we love kale! Here…
Kale t-shirt: a must have for kale lovers.
Oh Kale Yeah! National Kale Day
October 1st is National Kale Day. Who cares that the holiday is only observed in Canada? We deserve to celebrate here in the States as well. Needless to say, we're…
Kale Salad ready for scarfing.
Recipe: Northern Spy Kale Salad
For winter gardeners, kale is a staple crop that we have the pleasure of harvesting all season long. It grows well in spring in cooler climates, so for those covered…
Garlic Kale Soup
I would like to present one of the best soups I've ever eaten. It was restaurant-quality delicious and very easy to make. It uses kale and garlic
from the garden (save this for your upcoming garlic harvest) and shiitake mushrooms from the farmers' market.
Garlic Kale Soup - Vegetarian Times, February 2010
I ran across the recipe recently in an Anti-Inflammatory eBook put together by Vegetarian Times. It showcases inflammation fighting ...
Making Kale Chips – Solar vs. Oven
Sunny days mean that it's time for a little solar food drying. Add an overabundance of kale and you've got a formula for a tasty snack: Kale Chips
We pulled out the solar food dryer that we built last year and started warming it in the
sun. Before long it was up to 110º inside and ready for a batch of kale chip. Here's the recipe we used:
Crispy Kale Chips