Kale, Black Tuscan  (50 days)  Brassica oleracea This is an excellent Lacinato (or Dinosaur) type kale from the late Alan Vanet and SOW seeds.  With dark green leaves and resistance to both heat and cold, it provides tasty, nutritious, tender kale leaves for most of the year.  Very winter hardy it becomes exceptionally sweet after frost.  A proven farmer’s market favorite, it is beautiful to behold as well.  1/2 g~125 seeds         Ounce (≈ 8,000 seeds) 1/4 pound (30,000 seeds)...

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Fractal Frills (50 days) Brassica napus This is a Siskiyou Seeds original that is a breeding population from a cross between Siber Frills and Frisée’ with the aim of stabilizing it into a hyper-frilly purple-tinged, purple-petioled fractal fantasy.  Some individuals have a very wide pink/purple petiole that fans into the leaf majestically , alluding to ornamental kales.  Lots of surface areas for seasonings in kale chip recipes.  Very hardy and late bolting. Packet (1/2 g ≈ 125 seeds) 1 oz (≈ 8,000 seeds)...

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KALE , Siber Frills (60 days) Brassica napus  Vigorous and sweet, this kale produces over a long season. Mild flavored leaves becomes frilly as the plant matures, making it easy to cut even mature leaves for salads. Tender and tasty raw or cooked. Foliage stands well into the winter. Siber Frill kale was selected at Lupine Knoll Farm, choosing for the frilled leaves, from a mix of B. Napus kales provided by Tim Peters, Peters Seed and Research, in 2000-2002. Packet (1/2 g ≈ 125 seeds) 1 oz...

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Kale, Tall Alive Grex,  (55 days)  Brassica oleracea A Seven Seeds Farm original variety that is based on our wonderful “Alive Vates” but backcrossed to the tallest specimens of numerous open pollinated commercial kales from a kale trial we grew in 2016 with the goal of producing a vigorous, stable, disease resistant Vates type kale with frilly dark green leaves. Expect variation in this population. We have a half-sibling progeny row breeding project underway to stabilize the tall (but not too tall!) trait.  Packet (1/2 g ≈ 125 seeds) 1/2 ounce Ounce:...

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Kale, White Russian  (60 days) Brassica napus The most cold hardy kale, also bolts later in the spring than any other kale by 2-3 weeks, which helps to keep the garden on your dinner plate in the lean month of April.  Looks like Red Russian kale, but with white veining and stems.  Developed by Farnk Morton as a cross between Siberian and Red Russian kales.  Generally regarded as the best tasting kale.  We have also noted that this is the latest bolting kale in our fields in the spring, providing food for up to a month longer than curly Vates and Lacinato types. Packet (1/2 g ≈ 125 seeds) 1 oz (≈8,000 seeds) 1/4 pound (≈32,000 seeds)          ...

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