Kale

Kale is an excellent green vegetable for cold weather cooking. It's best known as an attractive garnish, but the mild-flavored greens are also a highly nutritious addition to salads, stir-fries, steamed vegetable dishes, soups, and stews. Unlike so many other greens, they keep much of their texture even when cooked, adding texture to any dish.

Leaves may be blue-green, green, or burgundy in color, and ruffled, curly, deeply cut, or flat in form. Color and flavor improve with cool weather; plants can survive to 0 degrees F with protection.

Light:

Sun, Part Sun

Plant Type:

Vegetable

Plant Height:

12-24 inches tall

Plant Width:

12-36 inches wide

Top Varieties

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'Chidori Red' kale

bears frilly leaves that provide brilliant color and sweet flavor. Dark outer leaves surround purplish red central foliage.
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'Dwarf Blue Curled Vates' kale

offers finely curled bluish-green leaves on low-growing compact plants. It's a highly ornamental addition to the vegetable garden.
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'Redbor' kale

features attractive frilly burgundy leaves that intensify in color as the weather gets colder.
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'Red Russian' kale

has purple stems and purple-veined flat leaves that are more tender than those of frilly kale varieties.
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'Red Russian' kale

bears long and thin, dark-green puckered leaves that stand upright. The plant tolerates heat and cold well.
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