How to Freeze Kale Without Blanching

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@ChocolateBoxCottage 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that you show how to use less than perfect produce. That's realistic and it's what we all have in our gardens. 🦋 Michele

@lulishomestead6767 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for encouraging me not to be afraid to talk about using less than perfect produce from our garden. 😘

@jdanielbiz Жыл бұрын

Cover your plants with fine mesh bug netting! Works beautifully! Available online at Amazon etc.

@melissadavis5954 Жыл бұрын

When I was freezing peaches, I didn't want to blanch them. I found an old recipe that said to soak them in a salt solution and then rinse them off and the salt stops the enzymes that turn them brown(that is also the purpose of the blanching 😏). It totally worked too! My peaches never turned brown in the freezer. I'm sure that salt bath for the bugs is working double duty 🤗

@lulishomestead6767 Жыл бұрын

Interesting! Thanks for sharing

@serenity8644 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the class🙌❤️

@lumailisa Жыл бұрын

Stems are amazing for smooth soups in soup maker. I actually prep and freeze them for this purpose - the fibre makes for a hearty soup that makes me feel fuller for longer

@zinnialady5153 2 жыл бұрын

I cover my kale with tulle fabric and this keeps the moths off of my kale. It is a bit of a hassle uncovering and recovering it but to me worth it.

@lulishomestead6767 2 жыл бұрын

Next year!

@tennesseenana4838 2 жыл бұрын

I use tulle, too. On one of the edges and the top, I use clothes pins to keep it together, so It's easier to open up and harvest. The stems and leaves that are too bad or have yellowed go into my compost. Can't have chickens where I live. Also plant some garlic with the kale and collard greens, or flowers to attract beneficial insects.

@Rhonda-z7m Жыл бұрын

I just found your videos. You are great! I love your information and your sweet personality! Keep sharing, TY! Rhonda

@lulishomestead6767 Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel!

@johnmckinley8481 2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree with your comments on spraying etc. I have home remedies for aphids etc. sunflower oil/washing up liquid/water seems to work but my philosophy is "if the bugs are eating them it's safe for me to eat them"

@lulishomestead6767 2 жыл бұрын

Great philosophy!

@SingleFileCooks 2 жыл бұрын

You are such a good teacher!!! Thank you for this great video!❤️

@lulishomestead6767 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I used to teach nursing in college, maybe that's where I picked up my teaching skills. However, my мама was a great teacher without any college degrees 🙂

@bluebellink7023 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much fir this video, I have been looking at my kale, wondering how to keep some fir winter. Love from the U.K. ❤️

@lulishomestead6767 2 жыл бұрын

Hello UK! Freezing is an easy method.

@jeanleonard3440 2 ай бұрын

I always grow kale in pots, completely covered with floating row cover fabric, and it works great. If the fabric is heavy, you can even grow it in winter. It's pretty hardy.

@OceanFrontVilla3 Жыл бұрын

This is what im looking for as I prefer not to do the blanching mrthod thanks very much!!

@lulishomestead6767 Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@cookiehome2442 2 жыл бұрын

That looks good. I don;t care if my greens have a little bit of damage. Still perfectly good to use.

@lulishomestead6767 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, after everything is chopped up, the holes disappear. Did you see my little baby kitten?

@cookiehome2442 2 жыл бұрын

@@lulishomestead6767 the kitty is so cute

@lulishomestead6767 2 жыл бұрын

She's my little baby

@sylvieleboeuf2945 Жыл бұрын

I don't know how big is your garden but I use to have lots of cabbage worms in my kale patch which I was plucking by hand and dropping them in a little container with soapy water but those little white butterflies were coming back all the time as they smell them from far.. My patch of kale is about 4' x 6' or 8' and it is plenty for us (we are only 2). This year I put high loops with a fine garden net on top and it did the job. I still check them in case (and I found a few ones which I got rid of by plucking them but they were on one plant only and I caught them on time). With that net, I have beautiful kale that is not eaten through. More for us and less for the cabbage worms :).

@lulishomestead6767 Жыл бұрын

Next year hoops for me!!! I am tired of caterpillars

@sylvieleboeuf2945 Жыл бұрын

@@lulishomestead6767 I'm telling you. You will love it and it will not only save your kale but it will save you time trying to get rid of those cabbage worms and... no pesticides used 🙂 Oh! and you use hoops with all the cabbage family veggies unless you want to produce seeds but that you can have a little patch just for that.

@mimilam2618 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video as I have so much kale and going to do this

@lulishomestead6767 2 жыл бұрын

When in abundance today~ store away for tomorrow!

@manjus3 22 күн бұрын

Thanks for this great video. Will the leaves remain crisp when you thaw them, especially for making a salad?

@lulishomestead6767 22 күн бұрын

@@manjus3 it is best to use in cooked dishes not fresh salad

@mimilam2618 2 жыл бұрын

Stems good for juicing

@lulishomestead6767 2 жыл бұрын

Good idea!

@karenwhite7056 5 ай бұрын

Hi there! Thank you for this video. I want to preserve my Swiss Chard and different types of Asian greens without removing the stems. I love to sauté these types of greens so my question is. After I’ve gone through your method of freezing them, when it comes time to use them, do I need to defrost them first? Thank again for this terrific video!

@preppernut 2 жыл бұрын

I learn something new every time, thank you. And now I will be braver about eating leaves with holes in it, instead of giving them to the chickens. Do you chop and freeze the stems without blanching too?

@lulishomestead6767 2 жыл бұрын

The super destroyed leaves went to the goats and chickens! The stems i just add to my onion peel bag and other herb stems. No blanching.

@IAm-aQueen 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this wonderful video. I have a question that I hope you can answer. Can I follow the same method with other leafy vegetables? Arugula... lettuce... parsley... coriander... mint... I have a lot of them and I was thinking about freezing them to use later in preparing green smoothies.

@lulishomestead6767 4 ай бұрын

I wish we could do that with all greens. Unfortunately, some greens will not survive the freezing process. I do freeze partly, but never tried with arugula. The lettuce don’t freeze well.

@lindagoulet3990 Жыл бұрын

I live in northern Ontario and grow my kale in my small greenhouse, my kale and lettuce and Swiss chard are perfect and never once needed to spray ….🧐

@lulishomestead6767 Жыл бұрын

Great job protecting them in the greenhouse! I also grow my Hardy greens in my greenhouse in the winter- no bugs and no need to spray. But once in the spring I left the door open and white months got inside… well you know the rest 🥲

@flwrpwr19 Жыл бұрын

My garden kale looks perfect and I don't spray it with any pesticides. Try companion planting to avoid pests + using an olla for watering = perfect kale and collards.

@MarshandMellow83 2 жыл бұрын

Hi there, i have a question...will the Kale turn Black in color because you didn't blanche it? Thank You for this video...Much Love and Be Well🕊🕊💛💛

@ChocolateBoxCottage 2 жыл бұрын

PS. Your kitty is darling! 🐱

@lulishomestead6767 2 жыл бұрын

🙂

@maryemmarco5330 10 ай бұрын

Hey 👋 so how come you don't put it right in the bag and into the freezer after chopping? Thanks alot!

@lulishomestead6767 9 ай бұрын

You can, but it will freeze in one solid block.

@ramonajolley1966 2 жыл бұрын

Hi there! Great to see you! Question, the basket that you were using. Where did you get it? I could really use one. I heard that you can kale. Do you can collards as well? Thank you. Take care.

@lulishomestead6767 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ramona, are you asking about the white basket? It was an old basket from an old freezer. I also have used laundry baskets, worked well. Yes, you can can kale and chard. I have can it in my pressure canner

@ramonajolley1966 2 жыл бұрын

@@lulishomestead6767 Do you have a video about it? I'll look it up. Thank you so much for getting back to me. I got so interested in preservation but know that I know is interested or they want me to do the work. When I watch I feel like we are neighbors. Thanks again and take care.