Let's talk about kale today on the podcast, something that you can still plant in most areas of America,

and if you can't, you can actually still do it. You just need to grow it either indoors or in a somewhat heated area like a hoop house or a greenhouse or something like that.

But you know, Kale is something that I will admit I didn't like very much. Certainly growing up, I don't think in the 90s,

which was my real true childhood, I suppose,

maybe the early 2000s, it wasn't that popular of a vegetable.

Either it wasn't, or I just wasn't aware of it because I was too

busy playing Pokemon or running around skateboarding. That's probably the more likely scenario. Anyways,

let's talk about a couple different kale varieties that you may want to

experiment with so first of all you have your curled leaf cales these are your

classic grocery store kale varieties these ones as the name implies, are quite curly. They are pretty frost tolerant

and they're kind of just your basic. So you have your common green curly kale. That one,

there's a popular cultivar called Winter Boer cold hardy can grow

to about two or three feet tall good soup kale that's one of those cales that a lot of

people say you got to massage it so you can break it down a little bit so it's a

little bit easier to deal with. Now if you want to get the same exact growth

habit but a different color than go with red boar. Red boar as the name again implies it's got more of a deep

burgundy more of a purplish feeling to it. Again does really well in the

cold and tastes quite nice. This one's a hybrid. I actually tasted it at Bejo seeds up a little bit north in California,

maybe mid California on a seed tour and it was really tasty. Nice and just sort of your classic kale flavor. The final

kale that's curled that we'll talk about is Scotch kale which is blue-green. So

the tint has a little bit of a blue-greenish hue to it. It's almost a little bit of a metallic-esque sheen, I suppose.

Blue-curled scotch is going to be the variety to look at there.

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