Look how beautiful the kale is, still!!!  

 

We have managed to keep it gorgeous since I planted it in March.  We do that by keeping it picked from the bottom, removing  dead leaves, and using Dipel dust to keep the cabbage white caterpillars off the leaves.  Dipel dust is a biological insecticide that is used in organic farming, (meaning that it isn’t a poison, but a living bacteria that kills the caterpillars when they ingest it.)  I don’t want to poison the cabbage white butterflies, I just don’t want the caterpillars to eat holes in my kale leaves.  

 

There are about 12 plants of kale that I planted this year, and three that overwintered from last year.  Last year’s kale is making seeds, and we will plant those seeds inside in the winter to grow microgreens.  We can eat kale year round.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!