Blue Curled Scotch Kale Seed

Grow it for its ornamental beauty alone. Compact 1’ plants yield tender, blue-green, finely crinkled leaves that are quite delicious and rich in vitamin A. Extra cold-hardy and aphid-resistant. Great fresh or cooked, either before or after a frost, when leaves become very sweet. Harvest baby leaves for salad, then continue to pick the larger leaves from the middle outward to braise or sauté. Use thinnings or sow a heavily-seeded row every 10-14 days for baby greens. Photo courtesy of Baker Creek Heirloom Seed.

• Days to germinate: 7-14 days
• Days to maturity: 60
• Start indoors: 4-6 weeks before last frost. Sow ½” deep in sterile planting medium.
• Transplant spacing: Thin seedlings to 12-24” apart. Sow another planting in mid/late summer for fall crops.
• Sow outdoors when temperatures reach 55º.
• Seed spacing: 2-4”
• Seed depth: 1/2” deep
• Produce size: 8-10” and larger
• Yield: 30 lbs. per 50’ row
• Mature plant height: 14” tall x 2-3’ wide
• Suitable for container growing: Yes
• Year of discovery: 1863