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'True Siberian' Kale
 
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Description: Fast growing 24- to 30-inch plants with large, frilly, blue-green leaves. Cold hardy. It can be picked all winter in some areas.
Days To Maturity: 70
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Reviewed on 12/22/2009 by containergardener - An experienced gardener

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Los Angeles, California, United States
Frost Free Season: More than 203 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

I believe that White Siberian, Siberian, and True Siberian are the same plant. I reviewed this as White Siberian, but in fact I grew my kale from seeds from Seeds of Change "True Siberian," which is pictured in this entry. This blue-green, slightly curled variety is by far the best for used as a cooked green vegetable. Although Scottish dwarf blue is more productive, it is tougher and less delicious than Siberian. Siberian kale does not seem to attract aphids, which other brassica do here in southern California. Here it is excellent as a fall-winter-spring crop, harvested as a cut-and- come-again crop for 9 months of the year.
 
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