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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] harvesting kale
  • Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:15:37 -0800



Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

--- lists AT rhomestead.com wrote:

From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Market-farming] harvesting kale
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 18:50:41 -0500

I still have some really nice looking Winterbor, Ripbor, Red Russian, and Rainbow kale in the field (zone warm 4).  It has gotten down into the single digits, but warm this week and looking good. Tomorrow still above freezing, but I am busy getting ready for weekend market and have all I need.

 

2 questions:

 

  1. In the summer/fall kale turns yellow quickly in the cooler.  Is it dormant enough now to stay green a month or more in a walkin?
  2. Next week is in the twenties.  I wonder if I cut it with an inch or so of stalk, it would thaw nicely since attached to the stalk.  Need to put stalk in water?  I’d love to leave it in the field a couple more weeks, just because tomorrow through the middle of next week it’s really busy here, and I am short on cooler space.  I could put it in the garage with outdoor temps in the twenties day, teens at night. 

 

Appreciate hearing what others have succeeded or not succeeded with.  No, at this point I am not hauling row cover out.

 

 

Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru NY

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"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry

"Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe

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