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.
