So, as part of our gardening last year, my wife planted kale back in February 2020. Stuff proved highly adaptable and grew like crazy through a 100 degree summer on stalks that reached about 3 feet tall. We ate the stuff until I got completely sick of it prior to Thanksgiving. My pipes have never been so clean before. Thinking we were done for the season, we just let it go uncovered all winter. About 10 days ago we yanked it completely out to make way for new spring planting. I laid one stalk up on a box thinking we might cut a few more leaves off of it still last week for stew. Then completely forgot about it. Then it snowed on it 6 inches all last week and it froze solid down to -2°F. Yesterday it thawed out. Today I remembered it, and grabbed it to throw on the compost pile, thinking it would be totally dead and wilted.
IT IS STILL ALIVE. Cue the Twilight Zone music.
Now I am wondering what the heck is the genetic make up of this stuff? Was it invented in a secret lab up in Los Alamos or something, using DNA from the Roswell crash? And -2°F up to over 100°F? Something is going on here and it smells like fish in Denmark.
Now I am convinced I can survive anything. It’s the perfect survival food - just raise goats and kale. Goats and kale can live on nothing, and Man can live on goats and kale. We could eliminate world starvation with this stuff.
I think I will name it: SOILENT GRIN.
I am very intrigued by this. So I went and dug a hole in my compost pile and re-planted it. Let’s see if it lives. I will report back.
Creepy Experiment-The FrankenVegetable
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Kale is tough. It's been growing here since the Vikings.
It can withstand a few frostnights and snow. It can even be harvested in the winter.
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Very interesting, we pulled some cabbage up in the grow boxes I built out of landscape timber’s and chunked it on the ground . 2 or 3 weeks later I noticed green growth; it had rooted itself. Well, when the storm came I figured it was fried; I went over there this morning and it’s green, unreal
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Some plant species show incredible vitality. Apparently, they were selected taking into account the possibility of growing in northern latitudes, where the summer is not very hot and sunny.
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After surviving both summer and the winter storm, wouldnt surprise me to see it grow legs and walk across the yard. Creepy but impressive.
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I wonder how it would get along with a smoked Ham Hock and some Vidalias
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OldUsedParts wrote:I wonder how it would get along with a smoked Ham Hock and some Vidalias
It might EAT them!
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Boots wrote:After surviving both summer and the winter storm, wouldnt surprise me to see it grow legs and walk across the yard. Creepy but impressive.
Better watch out Boots. They may be related to Triffids.
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Hehehe. Maybe I should call it Gizmo but not put any water on it. Wouldn’t want gremlins...
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