Harvesting Kale From My Fire Escape

The kale has been doing well on my fire escape garden. With the weather dropping into the 20s, I decided it was time to harvest and eat it because that’s what it’s there for.

In harvesting my lettuce, I learned that you should pick the outer most leaves. Otherwise the plant will bolt. Personally, I don’t want it to bolt and want it to keep producing more food for me.

After I picked me some kale salad for lunch, I put the small plastic greenhouse back over it. The question that I have no is will it continue to grow in this 20 degree temperature?

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10 Replies to “Harvesting Kale From My Fire Escape”

  1. Off topic Fern. Unacceptable. It's a Brooklyn accent, but I get Australian, Boston, Brooklyn, English…

  2. I live in Wyoming and we have already had -20 degrees here and our kale is still growing wonderfully. Actually, it gets much sweeter, the colder it gets…awesome stuff, we have it at every meal.

  3. Wow. Unfortunately mine died, but I think it was for a variety of reasons. Need to correct that for 2010. How often you add compost and fertilizer?

  4. Wow. Unfortunately mine died, but I think it was for a variety of reasons. Need to correct that for 2010. How often you add compost and fertilizer?

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