Kale to the Sun Today

Usually I write my Diary of the Worm postings late at night. However, since tonight, out of love for my wife, I am going to a David Cook concert, yes the Idol winner from last season, I am writing this posting in the morning.

Looking around at what to write early in the day I noticed through the glass doors to the sun room that my kale in the planter stand was bright in the sunlight. This present kale brings back many memories and offers a lot for the future of our eating.

Kale was brought to my attention by Harvey Taylor, word/song poet. He told me how hearty a plant it was and how it lived through the coldest winter months only to flourish again in another year. He was right, and for a few years we enjoyed bountiful kale, in salads and cooked as greens. Kale is in the collard/spinach family, but in this household tastes better.

Then last spring tragedy struck. The kale did not come back. I checked with Harvey and the same was true for him. Even Growing Power was not offering kale starter plants last spring. I ran out to the store and purchased some kale seeds, regular and Russian. It grew but was not plentiful like in years past.

So this year, to be on the safe side, I planted some kale seeds in the planters on the planter stand. They grew slowly for a while, but now with the sun coming out on a regular basis they are growing. Now if the kale from past years comes back this spring and this new kale is planted outside I will have plenty of kale for salads and for cooking as a green for all kind of dishes.

With this Indian cooking kick I am on him this kale will come in handy. Yesterday at our monthly DMZ lunch I was asked to bring my Middle Eastern, home grown lettuce salad and to bring some of the Indian lime rice I brought last month. When ordering seeds from the catalog I mentioned Kale and Dawn and Marna, as well as I, thought this was something we might purchase from Growing Power as I did in the past. So now I hope at Growing Power there is Kale to the Sun.

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