FREE: Red Russian Kale 25+ SEEDS 1/4th tsp

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Red Russian Kale, is a biennial plant with very nutritious leaves.

It grows only leaves in it's first growing season.

If a plant with leaves is left to die back and over winter, it will come back in the second year, and put up flower stalks with little yellow flowers that are edible.

The flowers make a nice unexpected garnish.

If the flowers are left on the plant, they'll make thin seed pods with about 7 small,dark, round seeds in them.

There will be many, many seed pods, and seeds.

The seeds can be used to grow nutritious sprouts.

These sprouts can be used as a fresh, green treat in the winter, for people and pets with a herbaceous diet, such as chickens, rabbits, turtles, etc.

The leaves can be harvested as little baby leaves, to add to salads, or as large leaves for presentations, juicing, or grinding up to add to soup and rice dishes.

I blend them up in a bit of water, then put the goopy mess in an ice cube tray with a lid and freeze them.

Then just take a cube out, and plop it in some hot soup I'm making.

If you buzz it up really fine, you can call it an "herb", and add it to kids pasta sauce, gravy, and soups, so they'll eat it.

One can also make kale chips.

Kale is really good in a cold salad, which includes, julienned red cabbage, and kale and grated carrots, with a dressing made by mixing balsamic vinigarette and Dijan mustard.

These seeds were harvested last fall, in 2014.

I have a first year crop growing this year, for seeds in the fall of 2016.