Kale

 

   I was down at the local K-Mart (Atlanta 7b) and they had 9 packs of
Kale. (I struck out last fall growing from seed)

   I found that a bit strange, but took it home.

   Is it crazy to put this in this time of year? Will I get a harvest,
or will it live to thrive in cooler weather in autumn? What about care?

   My Swiss Chard, which did nothing when I put it in last fall, is
starting to take off.

   Gardening, what a mystery!

   Jeff

 

Jeff Thies wrote:

Hard to say as I don't know where you are or what season it is there.  Kale
may grow in hot and cold conditions if you can keep the water up to it and
the cabbage moth grubs at bay when it is hot.  My idea of cold is -5C and no
snow.  If you have -30C and heavy snow I don't know.  I have also noticed
some variation between cultivars in dealing with the heat and grubs.

David

 



Here in region 9, kale and Swiss chard are almost impossible to kill.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

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Billy wrote:

   Summer or winter?

   How should I water the Kale, can I drip it like everything else, or
should I get some of those spray emitters? If so, I won't plant it with
the cucurbits.

   Jeff

   Jeff

 



I can't think of anything in a vegetable garden that would benefit from
overhead watering, and quite a few that would suffer.
Go drip (irrigation, that is).
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html