What is this plant??? Its Walking Stick Kale / Jersey Kale!!!!
Zinderin
12 years ago
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Still want to talk about Kale ; )
Comments (29)I used to love eating Portuguese sausage when I lived in Hawaii from 1980-82 and yes, it was on the McDonald's breakfast menu! Isn't saimin still on the regular menu too? Haven't been to Hawaii in years. Yes, there is a large Portuguese community in New England and linguica is easy to find. I used to go on 3-week instructor tours for my agency in Andover, MA and was delighted to find linguica. It's the sausage required for caldo verde which is awesome. There are a lot of Portuguese-Americans in California too. Anyway, I have been raising kale for at least 6 years now. My sister-in-law who is originally from Utah, makes this wonderful kale dish. Here it is: Sautéed Kale Two bunches of kale. Cut off the stems and tear up the leaves into smaller pieces. Tear it up like you would lettuce leaves for a salad. Take four strips of bacon and chop it into small pieces or use a 1/2 cup of diced ham and pan fry lightly with a couple tbsp of olive oil. When the bacon is almost done or when the ham has been lightly cooked take a quarter cup of chopped onions and 1 or 2 cloves (chopped) of garlic and add to the mix cooking lightly until the onions are transluscent. Now add the kale and stir it around until it starts to reduce (about 5 minutes on medium flame), put a lid on the skillet and reduce the heat to low and let it sit for about 3-5 minutes. Then sprinkle balsamic vinegar to your tastes and stir everything up. Turn off the heat and let the mixture sit for another 3-5 minutes. Serve immediately. It's delicious. Kale is also great sautéed and mixed with eggs for an interesting flair to a Sunday morning omelette. Kale in many types of soup is good. Kale is great in Italian Wedding Soup, in plain old American vegetable soup, sautée kale with smoked turkey wing for quick greens. I've grown the Red and White Russian varieties, Blue Scotch curled and of course the Lacinato which some now call dinosaur kale. Ick! Hate that moniker because that's not what it is at all just some name some marketer gave it a while back. The Lacinato Nero di Tosca has a sweeter, subtler taste but I like all of them. America needs to eat more kale. Here's a link to Kale's health benefits. http://healthmad.com/nutrition/health-benefits-of-kale/ My sister is a survivor of breast cancer now going into her 5th year cancer-free and her nutritionist recommended eating kale for its cancer-fighting properties. Here's another link. http://whatscookingamerica.net/LindaPosch/Kale.htm You can freeze kale too for eating in the winter. America needs more kale!...See MoreHAVE: Tomatoes, Arugula, Endive, Cantalope, kale
Comments (3)Hi there! I'm new so I don't have many seeds but I am willing to offer the ones that I do have! I have: Mammoth sunflower seeds Regular sunflower seeds Watermelon Seeds Pumpkin Seeds For some Hale's Best Cantalope Seeds....See MoreHarvesting kale in the dead of winter
Comments (6)I'll order the Camden and Winterbor kale seeds to grow this fall for overwintering. Thank you for the suggestions (and the opportunity to add to my seed hoard! :) Yes, I'll certainly plant them closer this year. Last year I allowed the tomatoes to take over large portions of the hoophouse (plus I didn't figure out how to get the rollerhooks in and up until July), plus I was still doing Mel's square-foot method and the kale was planted one per square foot. This year we're trying to start mechanical seeding in rows to make the seeding more precise. What spacing do you use in your kale plants, and do you have any issues with them flopping over when they get bigger? I love that watering can, too--ordered it last year when I saw all the high reviews on it. It even waters newly-seeded areas gently enough that seeds are rarely dislodged....See MoreBrassicas: Tree Collards X Dino Kale (lacinato)
Comments (7)Yukkurri_Kame: How did your crosses turn out??? I've always heard the tree collard won't grow true from seed. My guess is that you will like likely have to do many many (1000's?) hand pollinations to get the characteristics you want in a cross. FarmFreedom: If you want tree collard you need to get a cutting or a plant grown from one, not from seed. I'm reposting this from Hawaii forum. the purple "tree" collard or "walking stick" kale is Brassica oleracea var. acephala. It has no oxalic acid. After reading this link,http://treecollards.blogspot.com/I realize that it might be a more accurate description if we called it a "headless cabbage tree" or a "walking stick cabbage," because it's more of a cabbage. A lot of people order the cuttings from California: Tree Collard Cuttings from Bountiful Gardens. Apparently Annie's Annuals in N. California is now also selling plants. But I got mine on craigslist from someone who already grew the cutting. Here is a good search methodology on CL. Go to the "for sale" section of your local craigslist and cut and paste: " collard|brassica collard|acephala|tree" It should pull up any ads for tree collards. The little line is like an "EITHER/OR" in search terms. If you are interested in perennial greens, here is another search term setup for craigslist: "alba|procumbens|Longevity|Malabar spinach|basella|gynura." It will search for longevity spinach and malabar spinach. This site has more information on pruning and care:http://richardsfarms.vpweb.com/Tree-Collard-Information.html...See Morestuffradio
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