July 2, 2024

VIDEO: STOP Growing Boring Kale! 10 Kale Varieties to Plant NOW


Stop growing boring varieties of plants…mix it up with some unique kale varieties that offer more color, flavor, or are better suited towards your unique growing environment.

0:00 – Intro
0:55 – Winterbor
1:13 – Redbor
2:05 – Blue CurledScotch
2:49 – Red Russian Kale
3:18 – Lacinato Kale
3:55 – Red Ursa Kale
4:20 – Dazzling Blue Kale
4:57 – Siberian Kale
5:29 – Chinese Kale
6:16 – Black Magic Kale

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27 thoughts on “VIDEO: STOP Growing Boring Kale! 10 Kale Varieties to Plant NOW

  1. Had to subscribe to your channel again. YouTube is really being awful about unsubscribing me from channels I had previously subbed to. So annoying. No wonder my subscription feed is not as great as I remember it being.

  2. Kale has always been very popular in The Netherlands not just now that its trendy. Its part of our staple winter comfort food. If you think winter you think "boerenkool". They tend to let the frost go over it before harvesting.

  3. Hardiness zone 7b here and I grew Cavolo nero (Tuscan kale) for the first time. It's been producing all summer long and is still going strong now in fall. Exceptional taste, cooks down much faster than other kale, dark green color after cooking. A winner, can only recommend! Also since you're always harvesting the bottom leaves, by the end of summer it will look like a palm tree, it's a gorgeous plant, mine are easily 1.5m tall by now (grown in containers on a rooftop)

  4. Most of my kale seems to overwinter here in Rhode Island zone 6a. We can get temps down to the single digits and even occasionally below zero (rare), but most of the plants will survive, which is really nice in February and March when not much is growing yet, you can have nice, tender greens! Sometimes it will drop its leaves and seem to die, but in the spring it starts sprouting again. One kale you did not mention is Portuguese kale. I grew it for the first time this summer with the hope of using it in soups, but unfortunately it seems exceptionally tasty to cabbage butterflies here in my climate, so I will stick with my dinosaur, curly and Red Russian varieties.

  5. The Red Ursa kale is a hybrid between Siberian and Red Russian kale. So would that be Brassica oleracea x napus? Also have you heard of Sea Kale? Is it any good?

  6. Red russian kale just grows so well in my garden that I don't want to bother trying any other variety due to space, haha. Even tho I'm in zone 3a, a couple of my kale plants actually overwintered outside, so i'll get some flowers and free seeds I think!!! that variety does take alot of space though!

  7. Here in Central Florida I grow ornamental kale curly kale Siberian kale and red Russian kale ornamental kale is so good when making kale chips I think I've tried the black kale you were referring to

  8. I planted a lot of red russian kale, they are bigger now but the stems are just slightly purplish and some are just still plain green. Is there a reason why some of the red tinge color is not as dark? Thank you 🙂

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