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Posted by Legume SA (My Page) on Sun, Jun 26, 05 at 23:27
| Has anyone had any experience harvesting kale? I have some good sized plants now but am not real sure how I should go about harvesting. Am I right in thinking that I pick a few of the young leaves at a time? |
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RE: Kale
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- Posted by finbar Central Italy (My Page) on
Mon, Jun 27, 05 at 6:31
| Depends on your usage, Legume. You can either harvest the whole plant - if you'd use it - or just pick the outer leaves and let the plant go on producing. You can use the small baby leaves in salads, like you can baby silverbeet leaves. |
RE: Kale
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I have grown Kale for twenty years and I always pick the middle sized leaves...that is the ones that are still young and not old and tough...but not the really tiny new leaves which one could pick ok as long as one does not take out the growing point
I like to chop them finely and mix into a slaw and of course they go into all my stewed and baked dishes and chopped into a salad mix too
Kale is reputed to be one of the highest nutrient level vegetables so dig in (no pun intended)
cheers
Peter |
RE: Kale
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Trying it for the first time this year. Not ready to harvest yet so thanks for the pointers.
Ray |
RE: Kale
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| Not fair! My kale isn't doing anything. I put the seeds in a few months ago, but nothing happened. :( But I'm happy with my Purple Mustard. That's really nice. Lovely peppery taste. :) Great colours, too. |
RE: Kale
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Yeah, the middle and young leaves are the go. I'm quite impressed with the taste. Nowhere near as bad as some books describe it. Harvesting hasn't deterred it at all and more leaves are coming. It hasn't had the same amount of attention from caggabe moths as the cabbages or Pak Choi, but aphids do like getting in the curls of the leaves.
I think it might become a regular. |
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