I’ve been banging on about my love for kale since the very beginning of Real Men Sow. All hail curly kale!, I announced back in February 2011 after harvesting 42 leaves in the middle of winter. I love kale and have grown various forms since then, including dwarf curly, normal curly, purple kale, and the …
Yesterday was a bittersweet kale day for me. After finding some ridiculously late cabbage white caterpillars munching my garden kale to death, I was pretty despondent. However, the morning brought a sharp frost, so the leaves would be nicely sweetened. To cheer myself up I headed to mum’s plot to nab some of her kale, …
This morning I made an impromptu pre-work trip to the plot for some curly kale to have with dinner. Being one of the few veg coming off the plot at the moment, it’s taken a right bashing during January. I’ve picked more than 600g over five harvests, which roughly equated to 42 of the tasty …
