Growing Kale From Seed

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

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[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@Reverend Christine right on Christine.. I think it's going to be a very good year for you...!

[@flynnandres9533]

I realize it is kind of off topic but do anybody know of a good place to watch newly released movies online?

[@emanuelbalarabe3310]

wow this is lovely the information is very helpful and handy. Thank you

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks so much! Glad you liked!

[@margotwilson539]

Thanks for sharing the steps for planting Kale in a way I can understand! Your voice is calming for those of us whom are a bit intimidated with planting our first new crop of Kale🥰

[@musicalbard3]

I grew my first kale last spring. I used pots. By late fall they were still going strong even after several frosts. I brought them inside and put them in a large south facing window and I still have them. One of the plants had been bitten off by the local moose. I left it in the pot and brought that one inside too. It started growing leaves again and also survived indoors in the same south facing window. I was surprised and pleased. I live in the Maine Mountain region.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Its the plant that just wants to live and produce!! Love it! :-)

[@DailyLifeandNature]

Nice to see your kale still strong , happy gardening

[@sandyg3772]

I very much appreciate your attention to detail. I am learning lots from your videos. Now I know why my kale failed last year. However, the seeds I planted outdoors, then, are growing up nicely this year.

[@GottabKD777]

I really like the seed to harvest format with it all in one video. Thanks for the valuable info. I’m going to grow Kale 🥬 my first time this year!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Yup, its good. But at the same time, not a lot of people want to wait until the end of the summer to learn how to plant NOW. They'll miss an entire season, LOL!

[@GottabKD777]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms, You do you man! It’s all good.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@GottabKD777 Cheers!

[@Ddeath.Eaterr]

Cheers from Texas!

[@sandyrose4829]

I really enjoy your gardening videos.... so down to earth and to the point..... very good directions..... I am going to try this "craft paper".....

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks Sandy, appreciate the kind words and support!

[@johnjude2685]

Love the growing better group, Thanks for the teaching,SIR

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Cheers John, really appreciate the support and hope you have a great growing season!

[@DailyLifeandNature]

Kale is my favorite vegetable , nice tips to show us how to grow from seeds germination , thanks for sharing and like your garden work

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

So tasty and versatile...hard to argue with! Have a great weekend. :-)

[@gailthornbury291]

I don’t much like kale but I grow it to treat my chickens and I love the spring flower shoots which I eat like sprouting broccoli. Great in stir fries.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Sounds delicious Gail! I gotta try that!

[@sweetpeanmolly]

What a perfect step-by-step video for kale! I really appreciate this. Thank you so much I did subscribe.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Awesome Mary, thanks! Best of luck on your Kale endeavors!

[@nobullziggster4070]

When you did the Bell peppers/ I had ordered 2 seed packs/ they took so long I tried a old pack of seeds I had and they sprouted/ now i have way to many plants and two packs of un-opened seeds. (see if i can give them away) Your gardening is like a meal, makes one want to have it right now. loll

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Ha ha, congrats on getting the peppers to finally go though! Best of luck! :-)

[@larrydwarika4653]

I just planted two kale plants to see how it'll grow.... Now i can get seeds yay!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Right on Larry! Best of luck!

[@kingkha5672]

Beautiful kale! I'm growing 3 types of kale and not for the first time but it's still good to see what is needed for proper growth! And yes ik I'm up reallyyyyyyy late but not my fault it's a school project that is due is in less than a week so ye but I completed it rn and was just about to go to sleep but saw this video and I can't really join the live streams so often because I'm mostly studying at the moment of live streams but will surely catch up when it's uploaded!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Nice, I appreciate the support nonetheless! What kinds of Kale are you growing? Get that project done, we'll chat after, ha ha! Have a great weekend. :-)

[@kingkha5672]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Good Morning! @The Ripe Tomato Farms Sem you too have a great weekend and that project is done! Phew... I'm growing Lacinato kale, Red Russian kale and Siberian kale! I have 45 lovely kale plants 15 of each type Ahhh I love kale🙋!!!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@kingkha5672 so awesome! That's the varieties I'm growing as well. I used to grow curly kale but it always attracted aphids, so I stopped. Can't wait to hear how yours turn out!

[@bs4638]

One small topic you could add in future videos is the use of low tunnel hoops. If you have them, then you could possibly plant your kale a few weeks early in spring, depending on the soil temperatures inside the hoop. Likewise, in fall, you could extend the harvest season by a few weeks.

[@Milo270_]

I truly learned a bunch today from u videos, I liked especially the dog food one....looking forward to start a small garden ... corn , pepper, lettuce And few other stuff...thanks for sharing

[@OmarSantos]

Great video! I’m a big fan of your channel. Awesome work!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks Omar, much appreciated! :-)

[@stephenbrammall2565]

Lacinato for me this year especially seeing a lot of allotment growers rave about..

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Definitely Stephen. Dinosaur Kale is top notch. Really easy to grow and long lasting....I've had some plants go right through winter into the next year! :-)

[@martinamorgan1119]

I love the flowers,

[@annabluesails2755]

Wonderful! You're a (kale) genius : ) Thank you for your inspiration! All the best! : )

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks so much Anna! Best of luck this year!! :-)

[@donphillips6797]

I've just got everything 2 close I'm learning a lot thanks so much

[@leynaabbey]

We had a lemony kale salad with dinner 🤤

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

The best!

[@wedtokerhimrarib3123]

Very helpful.Thanks,as always.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Cheers! Thanks for the support!

[@cheesekake1841]

Hi Jeff, What is the "thin kraft paper" that you use in this video and where can we find it?? (I'm in USA). Thank you for making these practical gardening videos, I really really love them! :)

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey thanks! Yes, the brown kraft paper is just awesome for no-till and sheet mulching type gardening. This stuff here is identical to mine: amzn.to/3ztU8Uv

[@johnjude2685]

First try for us was last year and some of our family is crazy for it, mostly salad and smoothie drinks ( add apple 🍏) Thanks for teaching for I did have trouble.

[@ZoomZoomBoom24]

Hi there. Just thought I would let you know that even here in Australia your advice, tips, hints, and tricks to getting everything growing successfully has been an absolute bonus for my garden. My grandkids and I have been able to get phenomenal growth out of vegetables that would have, quite easily, failed and left the grandkids disappointed. Recently our Woolworths food chain had a run of limited seed collections and most people have had consistent mould and growth issues. I guess buying $30 of groceries for one seed pod would come with issues. I posted links on Facebook to your channel and asked everyone I spoke with to remember planting spring herbs, vegetables, and flowers in Winter would mean the ultimate act of disappointment for their children and grandchildren. I've taken to collecting the seed pods but buying actual seeds from our Bunnings ( I think that would be like your Lowe's store ) and planting those in season. As Kale is one of those seeds we can plant here in Australia now for a fall crop I was super excited to show the grandkids your very special helpful hints. We are about to do this today so fingers crossed the kale wants to grow. By the way, my eldest son ( 18 yr old with slightly autistic behaviour ) was able to use your peppers ( chillies for us here ) videos and successfully grow Trinidad chillies, Thai birds eye chillies, Cayenne chillies, Jalapeno chillies, Ghost and Scorpion chillies, along with a mix of Carribbean chillies. I call them "Hotch potch" chillies as we have had some weird ones come up. I've also joined your Facebook page. Thank you for such amazing, and extremely helpful, advice. Keep up the fantastic work and a huge thank you from a granny down under...lol

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

That is unbelievable! Thank you so much! It really is appreciated. And as a huge tennis fan, my bucket list is to visit your country as soon as this pandemic is over to go to the Open in Melbourne! Happy Gardening. :-)

[@derekcox6531]

Not that I have decades of experience in gardening or anything 😂 but this year I have already planted out kale under my makeshift mini hoop house on the south side of my home. (I live in the southern Alberta foothills area) Nobody is recommending plants outside yet,but I’m interested to see if a bit of protection and added warmth can yield some earlier results for me🤔 we have leaf miners here so summer is just a heck of a hard time to grow kale. My family does like the baby kale,but I’d really like to grow some bigger leaves just for fun! I actually feel quite excited to be trying this kale growing experiment.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

You got this Derek.....I can visualize the bounty you're going to have already!

[@nickc4276]

Great video. 👍

[@Bev437Sqn]

Jeff thank you for the recipe link. 🙂

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Cheers Bev, best of luck with your Kale this year! :-)

[@j.reneewhite915]

I'm still trying to get my timing right for fall and winter harvest. The best explanation that I've heard so far is you want to have a fully adult plant by your first frost. Basically I need to count backwards from my first frost date - the seed to harvest date on the pkt - 2 weeks due to slow growth/diminishing light. I don't have the formula down pat so if you could help with that I'd appreciate it. Thanks

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey Renee....definitely on the right track. The fall one is trickier because of the impending winter. And that winter's severity is different for everyone. What I do is start the seed 8 weeks before first fall frost....and get that well-started plant into the garden by 3-4 weeks before that same frost date. With a month to grow and if winter doesn't hit like a ton of bricks, you'll still get to enjoy 1-2 months of harvesting that fall Kale over and over. :-)

[@aeastman59]

Jeff for mulch can oak tree leaves be used? I hear conflicting information about using oak leaves for mulch or in compost...

[@melanieallen3655]

Nice!!

[@samuraioodon]

I have started from seed this fall indoors . The stems are long and leggy and it’s only showing 2 true leaves. They are tipping over too. Should I repot in large pot and bury deeper at this point? Thank you!

[@kimschellenberg7304]

ROUGHRIDERS!!!!!💚💚💚👍

[@fallmax]

When you keep growing the kale and taking out the outer leaves what do you do with the flowers ... are these the seeds....

[@legrandfamily1723]

What kind of straw do you use? It looks short and much easier to work with them the bales I get

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Oh man, this is the coarsest straw I've ever used! If you think this straw is nice, check out the straw I use here. Its almost TOO easy to work with! Right at the 6:00 mark: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYWUiZqBbcxnb80

[@aloevera9641]

Interesting

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Very

[@Charlie-xm6dg]

Russian Kale seems to tolerate colder weather. I planted it last year and it did very well.

[@Donna_G]

I can buy 2 bunches of organic kale for $5 at Fred Meyer. I dehydrate it and use it in soup, stews, scrambled eggs, pizza, tuna fish salad, and whenever I feel like it. I've never grown kale. Do you know of any kale varieties that can survive the summers here in central WA?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Most can Donna. Even the Siberian ones. Just need a little shelter from the heat and adequate water.

[@sircorkysriley4904]

can i bury cabbage transplants that are leggy deep as well???

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Yup, I've done it with almost all the Brassica family of plants...works great! Let us know how you make out with the results! :-)

[@sircorkysriley4904]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms good thanks!!!

[@NotUrAvgGenZ]

I think I know but can you define "harden-off" ?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Basically you are acclimating the plants to outdoor life to the changes in temperature, exposure, wind, and light levels. It needs to be done gardually.

[@NotUrAvgGenZ]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms okay got it! Thanks so much!

[@patrickchika8358]

Where do I get the send in Nigeria

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Seeds?

[@patrickchika8358]

Yes pls I mean seed

[@Maggdusa]

My kale plants play dead. They lie down, then pop back up at other times, having nothing to do with changes in light or water.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Tricky buggers!

[@suzanneweary9739]

I'm saving this video because my winter sowed veggies died two weeks ago. I went outside and all of my bottles were empty.... just soil left in them. 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Noooooo..sorry to hear that Suzanne! :-(

[@brianschindler1511]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@sircorkysriley4904]

I know a lady who named her son Kale !!!!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

LOL, that can't be true!

[@sircorkysriley4904]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms oh yes it is. I remember when I asked the kid his name and he said Kale. I did not laugh until later just could not help it!!

[@andyp.4205]

How do you deal with those awful cabbage moths that lay their eggs and hatch little green monsters that eat the kale. I spray organic soaps and I can't get rid of them.

[@A.E.Lanman777]

I grow the best kale. Better then everything else. Just ask the bugs.