Glad to hear your beets and carrots are making up for lost time after that rain storm, Feldon. I'm also envious of your increased sunlight! I need to get a branch of my ash tree trimmed but my "garden fund" keeps getting used up for car repairs, dagnabbit.
Anyway, I have some Red Russian kale that I've been harvesting from. This sucker is the kale that will not die. A product of a careless mesclun seeding, it lived for an entire year under the shade of a large parsley plant. For that whole year it was no more than four inches high, as if it were in suspended animation. It neither grew nor faltered. It just existed.
Then the parsley started to die off about four months ago and the kale began growing. Snails quickly decimated it so I cut it off almost at ground level. Before I knew it, the bare stem started putting out new shoots and now the whole plant is enormous and full of gorgeous leaves. I've been picking from it for a couple of weeks.
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