Kale Zhongs

LATIN NAME: Brassica oleracea

COMMON NAME: Kale

The kale holds its blue-grey, frilled leaves in the winter row, and the whole plant stands in the neat, ruffled heads. The hardy, upright, biennial plant carries the large, blue-grey, frilled or curled leaves on the stout stems, one of the fine, steady sights of the winter kitchen garden, the leaves holding through the frosts. The young leaves have a very long record as the fine, hardy green of the old tables, and the plant is a fine, historic presence of the kitchen garden. It is a plant of the open, sunny, deep, moist, rich ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The kale is a historic subject of the plant science, and the frilled leaves keep showing up in the work on the leafy brassicas. The chemistry of the blue-grey leaves, which carry the fine, sturdy greens of the winter tables, has been studied closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the leafy brassicas, the hardy greens and the members of the cabbage family. The frilled leaves and the upright habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the kale is a regular subject of the work on the winter rows of the cool world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The kale is a fine, steady plant of the winter kitchen garden. The large, blue-grey, frilled or curled leaves hold through the frosts, one of the fine, steady sights of the winter row, and the young leaves come to the old tables as the fine, hardy green, picked through the cold months for the soups, the stews and the salads of the winter kitchen. The plant is one of the fine choices for the winter kitchen garden, the autumn sowing and the study collection, and it has been written up in the culinary and the agricultural papers for the frilled leaves and the very long history. It is a fine, steady plant of the open, sunny, deep, moist, rich garden.

Sow in the late summer for the winter row, and the frilled leaves will hold through the frosts.

To grow the kale from seed, sow the small, round seeds just under the surface, a few to each pot of fine, gritty soil, keep the pots in a bright, open spot and water gently, then set the young plants out in the open ground. The seedlings are up within a week or two and grow on steadily. With the sun and the deep, moist, rich ground, the frilled leaves will hold through the winter.

Leaves hypertrophy.Delicious!