Kale: How to Grow Your Own Superfood

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In recent years, it’s gotten a reputation as a superfood. Leaf cabbage, also called kale, is a brassica species which really packs a punch. But growing kale isn’t something a lot of people consider doing. They should! Vitamin-packed kale (Brassica oleracea) is considered to be among the world’s healthiest foods. Rich in Vitamins A, C, and K, it’s also mineral-rich, packing a good calcium and potassium punch. For a leafy green, it’s protein-rich as well. One cup of kale will give you 2.2 grams of protein. We’re going to go over everything you’ll ever need for growing kale, including information about the various types and a good number of planting tips. By the time we’re done, you’ll be a kale growing expert. Learn More: Growing Kale: The Ultimate Guide To Growing Your Own Superfood Keep Growing, Kevin Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we're going to talk about
0:05.6	probably the most hyped vegetable of like 2016 I think and this is not just in the
0:10.6	gardening world. This is like in on mainstream world. This is in mainstream media.
0:14.4	This is kale.
0:15.4	Cale just blew up and for good reason.
0:18.6	It is a wonderful superfood.
0:21.0	It's a delicious plant. Does it deserve the superfood reputation?
0:25.1	Yeah, I think it actually does. But you know for us gardeners, do we care so much that
0:30.5	it's a superfood? I think that we do, but we also just love to grow it.
0:34.5	And some people can have some issues growing kale. So here we are today with you and me.
0:40.8	Let's figure out how to grow this super food so you can be a
0:45.4	kale growing expert okay? Ah let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go this is a
0:51.0	big big topic first of all we need to talk about the
0:53.8	different types of kale. Kale comes in a lot of different varieties if you go to
0:58.1	the article here so this is epic gardening.com forward slash growing dash
1:02.2	kale I have links to where to buy all the seeds for all the different
1:06.0	varieties but I'm gonna just feature a few because there's no way I can talk about all the different
1:10.6	kale varieties and then get into how to grow it.
1:13.0	First of all you've got your curly style cales.
1:16.0	So these are very ruffled, the leaves are very frilly,
1:19.0	and they will form these dense, deep curled patterns
1:22.0	which almost look like gathered lace.
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