Try not pulling your kale. Keep the big leaves harvested before they get cruddy, if you don’t want to eat them feed some to your chickens or compost it. When the days and nights cool that’s when the kale will be the sweetest. It will produce until a very hard Frost. I realize you’re in a very different zone than I am, but those big plants will give you lots more sweet kale until they freeze out than replanting. I give them a good foot or more between plants, they get BIG and we have fresh kale most of the winter. It usually overwinters here, and when it starts regrowing in early spring to go to seed, the new shoots are the finest sweetest “broccoli” you’ll ever taste! Don’t feel guilty not wanting to eat it now, midsummer’s big kale leaves are why people don’t like it. Now is the time for summer squash and green beans tomatoes and cucumbers.Not sure that I will garden much today. Work meetings all afternoon until 5pm. If I do get out there, I need to check on the corn and probably pick a bunch of banana peppers. I still have banana peppers on the counter from days ago though. If I pick more I need to pickle them. I have tons of kale out there too. I should thin the leaves a bit. I don’t feel like eating it now though. Perhaps I will try to blanch and freeze it. I am considering some late plantings. I haven’t decided what though. I have about 60 days left. I would to plant frost hardy things to be safe. Ideas are welcome.
Sorry for the sermon, I have just come to love how generous kale is and it almost makes me cry when I see people rippin it out before it’s had a chance to be at its best. Carry on…