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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 13, 2013 15:38:21 GMT -5
Broc going to flower. Grump and grumble, winge and whine. Where is my rain? Spring in February. That means I'll have summer in May. I haven't even planted peas and spring wheat yet! If this keeps up, it will be too hot for either of them. I think Dar is hogging my rain. Attachments:
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Post by lieven on Feb 13, 2013 16:43:27 GMT -5
Frank Morton wrote somewhere he crossed a Lacinato kale x some savoy, for better vigor / against inbreeding, and then selected for Lacinato looks again.
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Post by olddog on Feb 14, 2013 11:55:47 GMT -5
Steev,
That just shows what a good farmer you are! Ha, in my experience, cabbage is more difficult to grow than kale.
that is funny, i noticed the same thing, with just a bit of old horse manure, the lacinato kale is pathetic, very small, with small and few leaves, but the red russian kale seems to do very well, and is productive.
My neighbor grows great lacinato kale, but she has a goat farm, and it looks as if there are more goat berries in the garden than soil! Her kale is 4 and1/2 feet tall, with lots of laarge lush leaves.
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Post by synergy on Feb 14, 2013 11:57:18 GMT -5
Your rain is further north up the coast at my house . Okay I am so not experienced in horticulture so forgive me , I have had tiny transplants of dinosaur kale and another two kinds (?) growing under my coldframes that survived minus 6 celsius and they just give me a giddy happiness seeing things growing.
I have never tried eating the dinosaur kale before but I am growing it primarily to put in smoothies .
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Post by steev on Feb 14, 2013 14:44:56 GMT -5
The weather having been so very dry, it's perfect for shovelling horsepoo, lighter and less icky, so I'll do at least one load of that this week-end. It's an ill wind that blows no good. Even though seeds are just sulking for lack of rain, I can work up and improve the soil for a better day. Next year, great kale, no doubt.
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