A Kale yard

[Ms-T]

Yes please will send sae.if you send me your address.Thank you.

[happyhumph]

Don't encourage her......................

VC doesn't need encouragement - she can do mad plans a by herself

P.s - loving the look of the tall kales - suspect they'd blow over in my garden....

[vixylix]

VC I love this plan and I want to see pictures of your veritable forest when it is complete!

What number bed is it going in though, does it count as growing salad and does it attract butterflies?

[Jay-ell]

VC, can you only sow them on a Tuesday and only do anything on the bed on the 23rd of the month. Not going to go fast if you can only sow directly on Tuesday the 23rd - that's going to be May and January.

[veggiechicken]

VC I love this plan and I want to see pictures of your veritable forest when it is complete!

What number bed is it going in though, does it count as growing salad and does it attract butterflies?

VC, can you only sow them on a Tuesday and only do anything on the bed on the 23rd of the month. Not going to go fast if you can only sow directly on Tuesday the 23rd - that's going to be May and January.

Sometimes I have the feeling that you're mocking me and my ideas!

The Kale Yard will not be a numbered bed! Edible areas like the Spud patch, Rhubarb room etc are excluded from the One a day system! However, sowing the seeds may take place in Leaves week - which is this week.

[happyhumph]

I like the idea of a rhubarb room! In honour of the traditional rhubarb growing triangle I have my new rhubarb in a triangular raised bed.

Sorry - going of tangent (sorry, couldn't resist!)

[fishpond]

Cabbage white caterpillars the size of Anacondas

[veggiechicken]

2018 update

Remember all the cuttings in #9 https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ml#post1520733

They're bursting to escape their cage - and flowering!



Today, will be the great unboxing - as I think its time to give them their heads and roam free. The chooks will be happy.
Incidentally, as this is Plot 18, its also the free range radish area.

All will be revealed later. Bet you're all on the edges of your seats with excitement.

[Lumpy]

Is a yard of kale like a yard of ale but healthier?

[veggiechicken]

Its very similar but greener.

Can you imagine..........Pint of Kale Ale please. One fpr the GR to stock perhaps.

[Yasai]

I want to grow a Kale yard! Not in the Scots sense of a vegetable garden but in the VC sense of a "yard" full of kale (or tall cabbages).
They will be tall - a kale forest. Above the heads of puppies and chooks to stop them grazing but, once established I'll happily share. Tough bottom leaves for them, succulent young leaves for me. Sounds fair.
Those of you who've been around for a while will know about my weakness for growing kale http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...light=assorted
Time for another nutty kale-induced thread

I love this idea. I’m growing kale in every area that it wasn’t grown in last year. Having a go at Redbor and Scarlet in the hope that the snails and slugs will leave them alone and also Black Magic for now. Debating which green varieties to order. Wish I could grow chard but it always gets annihilated by leaf miner. I’ve decided that in a small garden it makes sense to grow leafy veg, toms and cukes... all of which are plentiful... in a good year.

[veggiechicken]

They're out!!! A bit crunched up but I'm sure their posture will improve soon.
Needless to say, the chooks found them. As long as they stick to the lower leaves, I don't mind. Plenty to share. Sorry about my elbow and Ted's rear end! Bess has lost her head in a molehill.



To the left of Plot 18 there's a cluster of some sort of kale/brassica that is busy self seeding. Its untouched by pests - even the chooks don't seem interested in it.



Spud says Hello!

[Small pumpkin]

I see mother is being a bad influence .

[veggiechicken]

Update on the kale grown from cuttings that star in #27. the chooks, dogs and bees love them - I'm quite partial to the odd leaf too.

1st April



Today

[Snoop Puss]

^The bees will go mad for that lot.