I woke up to temperatures in the 20s and when I looked through the window the Kale was looking quite sad. It had frost on it and was quite wilted. Being the first time I have grown this I was not sure how it would fare. I went outside to check on them later in the day once the ice started to go away. Unless the sun hits areas when its this cold the water tends to refreeze the next night.
Hearing these are cold weather crops I guess they will do fine down to a certain temp. Though this morning I thought it would be the temp to kill them but it was not. They popped back up once the temperatures raised into the high 30s.
Now the sun is going back down but it should not get as cold as it did the night before. And I wonder next time we get a cold snap will they be okay again? How low can the temperatures go before they are in trouble? I am not sure so I guess I will just need to learn from experience.
I am surprised to see many of the seeds that dropped are now forming plants, and they seem to be resistant to the cold as well.
There is now some Mexican Terragon growing around the Kale, and some Lemon Balm too. Hopefully this will help keep the caterpillars at bay during the spring summer and fall.
There are some bite marks as we got a warm snap for the last week or so, many of the bugs that bother them came back when it warmed up again. Though now they all died back since we got a hard freeze.
Just before the sun goes down it will be in the high 30s but then drop back down into the low 30s tonight. We get our coldest days around this time of year in January.
Looking at the center of the Kale there is more growth on the way. Hopefully we can harvest some soon.
Many of the seedlings are doing great, they are only a few months old and came up on their own. I did not plant them, just from dropped seeds they formed. My Feverfew plant can be seen next to them, a bright neon green color. Not sure if the Feverfew will protect them Kale from caterpillars like the Lemon Balm and Mexican Terragon does but its worth a try.
