is the cardboard ready to pick?

[majorcatfish]

planted Russian red and white kale that i found at lowes.
being one of my experiments this year... how is it doing in your opinion..?

 

[so lucky]

Looks ready to me! What variety is it, do you know?

 

[majorcatfish]

Looks ready to me! What variety is it, do you know?

Russian red and white kale......

do you eat leafs and stems...?

 

[seedcorn]

@majorcatfish its green cardboard. It's ready at any time.

 

[Smart Red]

It looks perfect for harvest, major.


I wonder if any of the livestock will want it?

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

looks ready now. i was only growing mine to give to my chickens. i want to try making a kale soup sometime with it.

 

[digitS']

I found Russian kale pretty darn good.

It isn't closely related to kale. It's a rutabaga ... or, a sister to one. Scotch and Italian kales are cabbages ... or, sisters.

It's something like chard and beets, bok choy and turnips. Ah! It's a wonderful world!

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

It looks perfect for harvest, major.


I wonder if any of the livestock will want it?

The breeder I got my rabbit from feeds kale to all his rabbits. I plan on adding mulberry leaves to my rabbits diet.

 

[so lucky]

@majorcatfish , in my experience, you can eat the stems when they are young and tender, but if the leaves get really big, the stems may be tough. I just cut or pull them out of the leaf when they get that tough. Some people use the stems for stir-fry, but I'm not that frugal, I guess.
My chickens love kale. Another reason the garden is fenced.

 

[Ridgerunner]

That is definitely ready. I cut the leaf off the stalk pretty far down and strip the green leaf from the stem and also the largest ribs. I'm sure you could eat the stem and ribs but I don't. You'd probably need to cook them separately because they would take longer to cook. They might be kind of stringy, not sure.

Some people take the small kale leaves near the bud and eat them raw in a salad. The small leaves are supposed o be pretty tender, but I prefer mine cooked.

When I harvest it I take all the leaves off the stalk, leaving just a small bud. Before long it grows back. I harvested this exactly a week ago today, pretty much stripping it to the stalk. You can see how much it has grown back. I have Red Russian and Curly Kale.