Tag: kale

Back-to-School Planting Suggestions: Vegetable Groups

by Shane Teachworth
August 15, 2025

Intro Recently on IFAS blogs, I posted about leafy greens which fit well in fall gardening; this entry is a continuation of that idea, touching on other cool weather vegetables. The start of the fall semester marks a dramatic cold turn in the ... READ MORE

Category: Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture
Tags: Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Cool Weather Crops, Garlic, Kale, Onions, Parsley, Shallots

It is not too early to think about fall color – success with flowering kale and cabbage

by Ralph Mitchell
August 11, 2025

It may seem really early to be thinking about the fall flower garden and bedding plants, but once you are in the middle of that season, it is often too late to act. Planning ahead, please consider growing one really tough and ornamental ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Cabbage, Flowering Cabbage, Kale, Ornamental

Back-to-school Planting Suggestions: Leafy Greens

by Shane Teachworth
August 1, 2025

Intro UF’s fall semester starts roughly one month ahead of autumn. In most of the US, this is when you might see leaves start to change colors, harvests come in, and most everything green goes dormant for winter. In Florida the cool season ... READ MORE

Category: Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, UF/IFAS
Tags: Carrot, Endive, Fall Gardening, Kale, Mustard, Radish, Turnip

Media Alert: UF researchers study farming inside a ‘shipping container’

by Megan Winslow
August 15, 2024

What: Smart garden ribbon cutting and tour When: Monday, Aug. 19, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Where: The UF/IFAS Plant Science Research and Education Unit (PSREU), 2556 County Highway 318, Citra About: University of Florida officials ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Citra, Clay Electric Cooperative, David Porter, EPRI, Hitchcock Field And Fork Pantry, Hydroponic, IFAS, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, James Boyer, Jim Boyer, Kale, Lettuce, Megan Winslow, North Florida Research And Education Center, Plant Science Research And Education Unit, Psreu, Research, Ribbon Cutting, Seminole Electric, Seminole Electric Cooperative, Smart Garden, Study, Suwannee, Suwannee Valley Electric Company, Tour, UF, UF-IFAS, University Of Florida, Ying Zhang

Harvesting and Preparing Kale from the Garden

by Ralph Mitchell
March 1, 2021

Authors: Naima Ibrahim, Tiare Silvasy, Virgilia Zabala Kale (Brassica oleracea L.) is a dark-green leafy vegetable and cool season crop that’s planting season is close to an end. For anyone living in Central Florida, the timeframe for ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Home Landscapes, SFYL Hot Topic, Work & Life
Tags: Gardenflorida, Healthy Eating, Kale, Ocextension, Recipe

All hail kale!

by Ralph Mitchell
February 19, 2019

I am going to have to repeat myself, but in addition to not liking red beets as a youth, I also did not like kale. It was probably in the manner it was served, but my mother said that once I was grown up I would like kale! Well, it did happen ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture
Tags: 'Blue Curled Scotch, Kale, Tuscan’ (lacinato) Kale

Time to Prep for Spring Vegetable Gardening!

by Whitney Elmore
February 5, 2018

Did you know that you can grow vegetables year round in Florida? The trick is knowing that summer really isn’t a good time for most veggies. A few, like sweet potatoes and okra, do well in the summer heat, but spring and fall are our most ... READ MORE

Category: Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Brassicas, Cauliflower, Fall, Gardening, Greens, Kale, Microgreens, Mustard, Okra, Overseeded, Peppers, Season, Sweet Potato, Tomatoes, Veggie Gardening, Winter

Q: I want to grow kale here. Is it too late to plant it now?

by BLOGS.IFAS
July 15, 2017

A: Kale is cool-season cooking green somewhat similar to collard and nonheading cabbage. It has recently become known as one of the “super” foods – those foods important for their anti-oxidant qualities. "Kale" is a Scottish word derived ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Kale

Aphids vs Ants: The World in Your Garden

by Whitney Elmore
April 20, 2017

I was scouting one of my community gardens last week, when I was bombarded by a massive aphid population boom on my kale. Dozens of aphid clusters were evident on the undersides of most of my kale. You could even see the aphids start to spread ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Pests & Disease
Tags: Ants, Aphids, Cabbage, Gardening, IPM, Kale, Scouting

What’s In The Garden Now

by BLOGS.IFAS
March 18, 2016

Visit “What’s In The Garden Now” for our monthly crop feature. This month's feature is Kale. Click here to read the full article. READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Agriculture, Extension, Garden, General Information, Gohar Umar, In The Garden Now, Kale, Master Gardener, Shelley Swenson, Vegetables, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension

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