Planet Veggie Garden

kale…
From yesterday’s post we know Kale is one of the most nutritious vegetables you can grow.
Kale is considered a Fall to Spring vegetable since cool temperatures and light frost improves the flavor. Heat creates a more intense flavor which I myself enjoy. Heat also tends to make kale bolt – or go to seed. One [...]

All hail Kale! If all you could do was plant one vegetable – Kale is it!

Lacinato aka Dinosaur Kale

Kale is a member of the Brassica or Cruciferous or Cabbage family – along with collards, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, mustard, turnips, rutabagas and radishes.
Not only is it fairly easy to grow from seed, it can be [...]

… a bunch of sprouted potatoes. Or at least a full tummy.

All this from a few sprouted potatoes

Today I harvested a basket full of potatoes. It’s so much fun to reach into the dirt and pull out these little jewels. All of these potatoes are offspring of potatoes I had in my pantry that started [...]

Offerings from the garden this morning. This is the second harvest for the tomatoes – last time was when we picked our first ripe one of the season – a full two weeks ago. That tells you what the weather has been like. The smoke from the 2000+ wildfires here in California filtered the sun [...]

Here’s what I picked this morning before it got too hot – it’s expected to be in the 90’s today in Oakland.
We have 3 kinds of lettuce: Cos Romaine, Speckled Romaine and an heirloom variety Brune d’Hiver – it’s long leafed like a romaine but creamy like a butter lettuce – and it’s a beautiful [...]