Kale

If you want a supply of healthy green vegetables to eat during the winter, try growing kale.

While harsh frosts can hurt other crops, frost will not damage stronger varieties of kale. In fact,  frost actually makes kale taste better.

You should sow kale seeds at the end of March or the beginning of April.

Seeds should first be sown on a seedbed and then thinned out, so that only the strongest plants are transplanted.

It is best to transplant the young kale plants in mildly wet weather, but you can transplant them whenever you have the chance to do so.

Soil should be well cultivated. Unless the soil is very poor, do not use nitrogen-containing fertilizers, including manure. You may use potassium sulfate and superphosphate as fertilizers.

Space your kale plants so that there is a distance of 2 ½ to 3 feet in between the rows and 2 feet in between plants.

You can mix the kale plants in with other crops, such as potatoes, that you have already planted and will remove at the beginning of the summer.

Once the earlier crop is taken up, you might also be able to plant a quick-growing catch crop, such lettuce or spinach, in the space that was cleared before the kale grow large enough to require all of the space.