Kale ??

[Containergardener]

Never grown it before , just wondered when you harvest it?

[muddled]

I just take a few leaves as and when I want them.
A bit like cut-and-come-again cabbage

[Containergardener]

Oh excellent , how many leaves do I need to start doing that ? More than 2? ...just kidding

[SaraJH]

Mine is in my brassica bed and won't be harvested until winter.

[Scoot]

Ive just sown my first evee kale.

Something to harvest throughout the winter and early spring.

[bario1]

I start harvesting a few leaves from the bottom of each plant once the leaves have reached their full size, usually around September, but I'm always a bit late getting them planted out.

[Bren In Pots]

I've got 10 plants and usually take one leaf of each plant starting from next month. mine was sown mid March.

[Small pumpkin]

I also pick a few levels as and when needed. I've already started picking.

[BertieFox]

I am not sure if they would work in a container but Thousandhead kale is enormously hardy and produces an abundance of young leaves in the spring followed by flowering shoots. I have taken some basal cuttings (non flowering shoots) from the woody stem and they have rooted, so I hope I can treat it as a perennial.

[SusieG]

I only sowed into modules kale cavolo di nero, last week. They've all germinated.
When the plants are big enough, I was thinking of using the bed where my onions & garlic are growing at the mo. So planting the kale into vacated bed end July time to overwinter ...

Does that sound plausible? Ta!

[Alison]

It depends on when you sow. I want it as a winter veggie so don't plant out until the summer and start harvesting when the plant is a good size in about October.

[Potstubsdustbins]

I set seed a fortnight ago, from here it will gradually be potted on right up to flower buckets, ending up in my dustbins when the main crop spuds have been harvested.

Should be ready to cut late in the year and into next spring ............well that's the plan