Tag Archives: kale

Greens

Posted on Friday 29 May 2020 by brianbreczinski

Our various greens have been growing well and now are providing us with fresh leaves every day.  It was hot and dry when I took these photos, and some plants were starting to droop, so I watered them a little … Continue reading →

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Bee in the Mustard Flowers

Posted on Monday 27 April 2020 by brianbreczinski

Several of the plants in my cabbage and mustard greens bed survived the winter and continued growing this spring.  We were able to harvest some kale and cabbage this spring (we’ve harvested kale in the spring before), but the mizuna … Continue reading →

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Garden Photos from 2012

Posted on Thursday 14 March 2019 by brianbreczinski

Back near the beginning of this blog, I linked to an album of photos of my garden on Google+.  Since that service is being shut down soon, I decided to post the photos here. The rest of the text is … Continue reading →

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Shades of Green

Posted on Friday 17 June 2016 by brianbreczinski

The cabbage family plants in garden bed number three (Chinese (napa) cabbage, pak choi, radish, kale, turnip, and assorted greens) come in many different shades of green, plus the purple of one variety of pak choi and the red of … Continue reading →

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Mutant Mustard

Posted on Thursday 05 May 2016 by brianbreczinski

Two years ago, I discovered that I had a kale seedling with three seed leaves, or cotyledons, rather than the usual two.  I had another one show up this year. When I was planting chard, carrots, mitsuba, beets, and lettuce … Continue reading →

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Spring Kale

Posted on Sunday 03 May 2015 by brianbreczinski

One of last year’s kale plants started growing again in garden bed number one.  I placed a wire mesh cage around it to protect it from rabbits. Today, we noticed that the kale plant was starting to form flower buds, so … Continue reading →

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What Are the Easiest Vegetables to Grow?

Posted on Friday 10 April 2015 by brianbreczinski

If you are new to gardening, or perhaps frustrated with plants that seem suicidal, you might want to try growing some of the following.  This list is composed of those vegetables that I have had little or no trouble growing.  It’s … Continue reading →

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Garden Cleanup and Rabbits

Posted on Sunday 15 March 2015 by brianbreczinski

Since the snow is mostly gone, I thought I’d get started on cleaning up the garden today; that is, removing last year’s plants and making the various structures ready for this year. I started on garden bed number four, which … Continue reading →

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Cabbage Patch “Weeds” & Pollinators

Posted on Sunday 20 July 2014 by brianbreczinski

We have been harvesting and eating cabbage for over a month.  We still have several cabbages growing in the first garden bed.  The cauliflower plants haven’t started making heads yet, but the kale is growing well.  We’ll eat kale in the fall; … Continue reading →

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Radishes & Other Cabbage Family Plants

Posted on Friday 30 May 2014 by brianbreczinski

Yesterday evening, I harvested some radishes.  I took those that were fairly large, and some that were growing close together to give the remaining plants more space.  These radishes were planted just over a month ago, on April 24th. To … Continue reading →

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