The BEST Kale Plants

This September we're harvesting lots of kale. In addition to my usual favorite: the dark-green spear-leafed lacinato kale, this year we also started growing Delaway kale and it's excellent. This kale stands out for its beautiful soft-green coloring, purple stems and slightly curled leaves. The leaves are tender and not too fibrous like some other kale varieties, yet they are very flavorful and even get spicy especially in the new leaflets.

Delaway is also cold tolerant and plentiful. Two or three plants is enough to eat all summer and still have some for storage. We like to freeze our kale. First you blanch it then put it in freezer bags. Good for soup in the middle of the winter!

Of course, you can also store it in cans or jars and that's better if you want to ensure you have food in the event that there is not electricity. But for us it's just less work now to freeze much of our produce because we have a large freezer to store food in. Another good way to preserve kale is to dehydrate it, then crush it and mix with salt and other seasonings. That makes a nice salt mix with the additional nutrients, proteins and antioxidants.

Enjoy!

Mighty Roots 2017 Plant List

We're excited about the 2017 growing season and have a ton of great-looking seedlings ready for sale and available immediately.

This year we grew some familiar varieties, and some that are new to us. All seeds are from heirloom and/or Certified Organic seeds. 

The plants are available to pick up at our house, at the South Madison Farmers' Market (Sundays 11-3 at S. 1602 Park Street) or by delivery. Contact us at 608-466-6177 to set up a time to visit our Micro-Farm on the North Side. We hope to see you!

Here's our plant list for this year:

MIGHTY ROOTS PLANT LIST 2017

Tomatoes:
Amish Paste
Brandywine Sudduth's Strain
Cherokee Purple
Man of Black Sea (Determinate)
Siberian Heirloom (Determinate)
Sweet Pea Currant

Bell/Sweet Peppers:
Ruby King
King of the North
Purple Beauty Bell 
Quadrato Asti Giallo (Green)
Sweet Peppers – Marconi Red 

Hot Peppers:
Jalapeno
Mustard Habanero 
Lemon Drop 
Thai Yellow Chilli 
Bulgarian Hot 

Herbs:
Basil - Genovese
Basil - Greek 
Kaprao Holy Thai Basil (great for Thai Cuisine)
Marjoram 
Mint (Berries and Cream, Sweet Pear, Grapefruit, Lime)
Oregano, Greek 
Oregano, Syrian 
Sage - Culinary Thyme
Stevia
Thyme 
Triple-Curled Parsley

Greens:
Kale - Lacinato
Kale - Delaway
Brocolli - Calabrese
Swiss Chard – Silverbeet
Cabbage & Cauliflower:
Cauliflower - Early Snowball

$3 for plants in 2.5” pots

$4 for plants in 4” pots