Amazing - love it!

~StLGirl

I remember seeing these pics just before Christmas last year, and I was SOOOOO impressed! I can't wait until I can do that in my yard! :o)

I've been wondering if it's too early to plant kale in my container garden. Now, I'm convinced. I'm gonna go get me another container and winter sow kale in it. Thank you for your post.

Your whole garden is nice looking, but that picture of kale is fabulous.

What a nice little kale story. :)

Karen

Adamark, were you the one that tended the gardens for "It's Complicated"?

Thank you for sharing!

"That is Kool!" The Kale Lived thru the winter!? Thanks for the reassurance. My Kale and Broccoli have sprouted. The Tomotoes, Squash & Cuc's Nada.

Meadows; thank you for a complement. My garden was just a disordered jungle not a perfectly alligned one as in the moovie. But, the most important, mine was ws'ed as compare to growned in greenhouses and transplanted for the movie set (I did google.

Beautiful!

My nursery guy tells me that kale and collard and other cold weather vegies actually need that cold to sweeten.

enjoy!

Thank you so much. I learned something new. I use the kale for chips in the dehydrator and juicing. Were you able to harvest all winter long? Can you direct sow in the garden now?

It is so funny about that kale. I planted because it looks nice. I tried chips, didn't come very good. Finaly, in Sept after, again, getting sick, I've learned that kale is one of the best plant to bust your immune system. From Sep on, every day, I have made a "kale smoothie" - kale, banana, frozen blueberries, yogurt, pomegranate juice and whatever fruits I have. Needless to say, I haven't been sick since. Before, I would get sick in Sept and continously be sick (sinusitis, bronchitis, etc, etc) until about now. I'm a great believer in kale.
Re harvesting - I was harvesting until it got covered with snow. At the end of Dec (pic), I've pick up as much as I could and freezed. I had frozen kale until about now. Looks like I can start harvesting again. You don't need much for a smoothie, 3 -5 leaves.

Wow, your garden is beautiful, and I am excited about the kale! I thought I'd plant flowering kale as an ornamental this year, I didn't realize how hardy it is!

I love kale too. It's a staple of the winter garden over here but we don't sow it until April/May to plant out July for eating all through the winter and spring. We are currently eating Red Russian and Curly kale (borecole like the ones in the photo). I also grow purple sprouting broccoli which overwinters and produces shoot about now - we just had the first picking. The new growth is always the first fresh greens of the year.