• Elevate your home gardening experience with these seeds. Améliorez votre expérience de jardinage domestique avec ces graines.
  • Specially curated for health-conscious gardeners. Spécialement conçu pour les jardiniers soucieux de leur santé.
  • GMO free seeds promise a bountiful harvest. Les graines sans OGM promettent une récolte abondante.
  • Nurture your well-being by cultivating this versatile kale Nourrissez votre bien-être en cultivant ce chou frisé polyvalent
  • Kale has a slightly sweet and earthy flavor. Le chou frisé a une saveur légèrement sucrée et terreuse
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Dwarf Siberian Improved Kale Seeds

Dwarf Siberian Improved Kale Seeds

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If you're seeking a resilient plant that delivers flavorful leaves despite tough conditions, consider the Dwarf Siberian Kale. This heirloom variety is exceptionally cold-hardy, yet it thrives in warmer climates as well. Its distinctive ruffled green and purple leaves are packed with flavor, which intensifies with a light frost. Being resilient to colder temperatures, you can continue harvesting long after other kale varieties have succumbed to wildlife. Originating from Russia, this kale strain flourishes in chilly environments while also adapting well to warmer regions. Its versatile leaves are perfect for salads, steaming, or stir-frying.

Kale, technically a leafy non-heading cabbage, boasts a rich history dating back to ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Its early forms likely originated in Asia Minor or the Mediterranean, although its ancient origins remain uncertain. Kale made its first recorded appearance in America in a 1669 publication, likely introduced through European influence. While kale remains a relatively minor crop in the United States, it thrives in European kitchen gardens. The Dwarf Siberian variety hails specifically from the Russian heirloom strain. Dwarf Siberian Improved Kale, a curly Russian kale, is known for its high yield, resistance to bolting, and adaptability to various growing conditions. These nutritious cruciferous greens enrich your home garden with essential phytonutrients and antioxidants.

Delightfully flavorful and nutritious, Russian kale offers sweet-tasting green leaves with delicately frilled edges. It produces an extended harvest period compared to most kale varieties.

Highly productive, the Improved Dwarf Siberian kale plants are hardy, dark green, and can reach up to 40 centimeters in height.

    How To Grow

    Sowing: Optimal for cool weather and enhanced by frost, Dwarf Siberian kale thrives as a fall crop. In regions with cool summers, sow seeds early in spring, planting clusters of three seeds at a depth of 1.25 centimeters, spaced 40-45 centimeters apart in rows 60-90 centimeters apart. Upon seedling emergence, thin to the healthiest plant per cluster. Kale prefers nutrient-rich, well-draining soil for rapid growth and best flavor. For a fall harvest, follow the same planting method about three months before the anticipated first frost. Utilize companion planting with cabbage or potatoes for mutual benefits.

    Growing: Maintain weed control and moisture retention with mulch. Keep soil consistently moist, ceasing watering after the initial frost.

    Harvesting

    Gathering: Begin harvesting young leaves when they reach salad size, picking larger ones as required. Utilize scissors or a knife for clean cuts, preventing stem damage. For full-plant harvests, cut the stem an inch above ground level. To prolong freshness, immerse the stems in water post-harvest; stored this way, leaves can stay crisp for up to a month. Kale also freezes excellently, extending the harvesting season well beyond frost periods due to its cold-hardy nature.

    Seed Saving

    Seed Preservation: To maintain genetic integrity, ensure kale remains isolated from other cabbage family members like broccoli, cauliflower, and collards. Kale requires overwintering for seed production, benefiting from its resilience too cold by applying a thick layer of mulch for protection, even in chilly climates. As spring arrives, allow kale to flower and seed; while some leaves can still be harvested for consumption, this won't hinder seed development. Tall stalks will bear pods that ripen from the base upwards; harvest when pods turn light brown. Alternatively, uproot the entire plant once most pods brown, then hang it upside down in a warm, dry spot. To extract seeds, crush pods and sift out chaff. Store Dwarf Siberian kale seeds in a cool, dry location for up to 4 years. Given kale's 2-year life cycle, retain plants in the garden over winter; by the end of the second summer, plants will flower, wilt, and form pods, ready for collection and drying for 2 weeks before seed separation and storage.

    Extra Facts

    Planting Method: Indoor, Outdoor
    Blooming Season: Fall
    Planting Season: Early Spring or Late Summer
    Latin Name/USDA Zones: Brassica napus var. pabularia/ 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
    Sunlight Required/ Height: Full Sun/ 30-45 cm
    Seed Type: Heirloom
    Soil Type: Loam Soil

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