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RE: How to Harvest and Preserve Kale
I cover my kale beds with a frost blanket and can eat kale all winter. The kale and chard I have can withstand freezes, -32 degrees easily even without row covers. I've canned kale and chard too. Great post!
Wow, I have never tried the row covers. I do use cold frames in early spring to keep my young seedlings from the early frost. I still have my Chard and some Kale still in the garden, I may just put up a quick cold frame to keep them going. I am so glad you mentioned this as I don't usually prolong my growing season as my gardens produce so much that I have enough produce to last till the next season. Great idea, thanks.
I'm from Oregon, we had a small two acre hobby farm, with the row covers the kale and chard survived a week of -zero degrees with a little frost burn. Try saving a few plants and let them go to seed in the spring. You get free seeds and endless greens. Some of my plants here 3 years old and still going strong. I would cover the bare stocks in dirt and new plants would grow.
Wow, that is great info, I will definitely do that with the ones still in the raised bed. It will be nice to see them in the spring. Thanks for the heads up.