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The curly leaves of kale are among the most nutritious vegetables. One 3.5-ounce serving of kale provides all the adult daily requirement of vitamin A and C and 13 percent of the calcium requirement. Kale is used as a green vegetable, steamed and served with butter or vinegar, or in soups. Kale is tolerant of cold temperatures and is especially sweet following a light frost.      To grow kale for fall or winter, try sowing the seed two or three months before your area's average first frost date. Since kale is so vigorous, there isn't much reason to raise transplants; directly sow it in the garden instead. You can count on kale to be hardy to at least 5F; and some varieties will take much colder temperatures, especially if given the small amount of protection provided by a floating row cover.

'Curled Siberian', low, short-stemmed plants have finely curled, blue-green leaves, high in vitamins. Zesty flavor. Very cold hardy plants--harvest all winter to zone 6. 60 days to maturity.

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