A New Use for Kale

I like kale.  I really do. Which made it all the worse when I found a large package of it at a super low price at Kroger, the local supermarket, and brought it home in January.  And then it sat in my crisper drawer...and sat...and I forgot it was there. Until the smell began.  Faint at first. Then growing ever more persistent until I was forced to open the crisper drawer and discovered..."adventures in indoor composting."

So my latest use for kale; direct composting!

My tomatoes each year so far in the Virginia garden have blossom end rot.  That's usually a signal that calcium and other trace minerals are lacking from the soil.  Well, kale is high in calcium, right?

So I dug a big trench down the center of the raised bed, held my nose, opened the huge bag of now inedible kale, and poured that whole mess right into the vegetable bed.  A quick scoop of soil later and the kale was buried in an unmarked grave.  And I, hopefully, have discovered a new use for kale - food for my tomatoes!