Sea kale is starting to emerge

Color is easiest to evaluate in sea kale at the sprouting stage. That is when they reveal how much anthocyanin content they have.

Cultivariable Standard:

Yaquina Head:

Piedras Blancas:

Point Grenville:

And a couple of unnamed seedlings from my purple population:

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Neat! I have ten mixed-pheno thongs coming from you in May, so hopefully I’ll mulch them well enough to make it through the winter and then I’ll see some of those colors in my own soil.

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Those look amazing. That is one plant I have never grown. I wonder if I have a spare spot that I could put some, hmmm.

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I just wanted to mention that four of the ten that I planted have come up this year, weathering our peak -28F winter. They’re little yet, but I’m excited to see how they do.

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I’m always curious how cold sea kale can go, so that’s a useful data point.

That standard is so green. I need to order some of that next year.