How to Freeze Kale Without Blanching
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2022
- Storing summer vegetables for winter use is great! I like to can my greens in the pressure canner, dehydrate for powder, and also freeze. This my simple method for freezing, It leaves very little moisture and great to be used for cooking later in the winter.
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I appreciate that you show how to use less than perfect produce. That's realistic and it's what we all have in our gardens. 🦋 Michele
Thank you for encouraging me not to be afraid to talk about using less than perfect produce from our garden. 😘
Cover your plants with fine mesh bug netting! Works beautifully! Available online at Amazon etc.
When I was freezing peaches, I didn't want to blanch them. I found an old recipe that said to soak them in a salt solution and then rinse them off and the salt stops the enzymes that turn them brown(that is also the purpose of the blanching 😏). It totally worked too! My peaches never turned brown in the freezer.
I'm sure that salt bath for the bugs is working double duty 🤗
Interesting! Thanks for sharing
Stems are amazing for smooth soups in soup maker. I actually prep and freeze them for this purpose - the fibre makes for a hearty soup that makes me feel fuller for longer
I cover my kale with tulle fabric and this keeps the moths off of my kale. It is a bit of a hassle uncovering and recovering it but to me worth it.
Next year!
I use tulle, too. On one of the edges and the top, I use clothes pins to keep it together, so It's easier to open up and harvest. The stems and leaves that are too bad or have yellowed go into my compost. Can't have chickens where I live. Also plant some garlic with the kale and collard greens, or flowers to attract beneficial insects.
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Welcome to the channel!
Thank you so much fir this video, I have been looking at my kale, wondering how to keep some fir winter. Love from the U.K. ❤️
Hello UK! Freezing is an easy method.
Totally agree with your comments on spraying etc. I have home remedies for aphids etc. sunflower oil/washing up liquid/water seems to work but my philosophy is "if the bugs are eating them it's safe for me to eat them"
Great philosophy!
Thank you for this video as I have so much kale and going to do this
When in abundance today~ store away for tomorrow!
Thank you for the class🙌❤️
That looks good. I don;t care if my greens have a little bit of damage. Still perfectly good to use.
Thanks, after everything is chopped up, the holes disappear.
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I don't know how big is your garden but I use to have lots of cabbage worms in my kale patch which I was plucking by hand and dropping them in a little container with soapy water but those little white butterflies were coming back all the time as they smell them from far.. My patch of kale is about 4' x 6' or 8' and it is plenty for us (we are only 2). This year I put high loops with a fine garden net on top and it did the job. I still check them in case (and I found a few ones which I got rid of by plucking them but they were on one plant only and I caught them on time). With that net, I have beautiful kale that is not eaten through. More for us and less for the cabbage worms :).
Next year hoops for me!!! I am tired of caterpillars
@@lulishomestead6767 I'm telling you. You will love it and it will not only save your kale but it will save you time trying to get rid of those cabbage worms and... no pesticides used 🙂 Oh! and you use hoops with all the cabbage family veggies unless you want to produce seeds but that you can have a little patch just for that.
Hi there! Thank you for this video. I want to preserve my Swiss Chard and different types of Asian greens without removing the stems. I love to sauté these types of greens so my question is. After I’ve gone through your method of freezing them, when it comes time to use them, do I need to defrost them first? Thank again for this terrific video!
This is what im looking for as I prefer not to do the blanching mrthod thanks very much!!
Glad it was helpful!
I learn something new every time, thank you. And now I will be braver about eating leaves with holes in it, instead of giving them to the chickens. Do you chop and freeze the stems without blanching too?
The super destroyed leaves went to the goats and chickens! The stems i just add to my onion peel bag and other herb stems. No blanching.
My garden kale looks perfect and I don't spray it with any pesticides. Try companion planting to avoid pests + using an olla for watering = perfect kale and collards.
Stems good for juicing
Good idea!
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I live in northern Ontario and grow my kale in my small greenhouse, my kale and lettuce and Swiss chard are perfect and never once needed to spray ….🧐
Great job protecting them in the greenhouse! I also grow my Hardy greens in my greenhouse in the winter- no bugs and no need to spray. But once in the spring I left the door open and white months got inside… well you know the rest 🥲
Hi there! Great to see you! Question, the basket that you were using. Where did you get it? I could really use one. I heard that you can kale. Do you can collards as well? Thank you. Take care.
Hi Ramona, are you asking about the white basket? It was an old basket from an old freezer. I also have used laundry baskets, worked well.
Yes, you can can kale and chard. I have can it in my pressure canner
@@lulishomestead6767 Do you have a video about it? I'll look it up. Thank you so much for getting back to me. I got so interested in preservation but know that I know is interested or they want me to do the work. When I watch I feel like we are neighbors. Thanks again and take care.
Thank you for this wonderful video. I have a question that I hope you can answer. Can I follow the same method with other leafy vegetables? Arugula... lettuce... parsley... coriander... mint... I have a lot of them and I was thinking about freezing them to use later in preparing green smoothies.
I wish we could do that with all greens. Unfortunately, some greens will not survive the freezing process. I do freeze partly, but never tried with arugula. The lettuce don’t freeze well.
Hi there, i have a question...will the Kale turn Black in color because you didn't blanche it? Thank You for this video...Much Love and Be Well🕊🕊💛💛
Hey 👋 so how come you don't put it right in the bag and into the freezer after chopping? Thanks alot!
You can, but it will freeze in one solid block.
Can you do this with other greens, mustard, collards etc?
I believe so!
Do you cut out the center stem?
Only if it's very think. My were not very think, I just removed the stems.
I put netting over my plants and it completey protected them from insects and cabbage worms with no spraying required.
How about Backing soda? For the bugs. Thank you for this video!!! I was looking for way to freeze them with out killing the enzymes.
Baking soda? I assume I would have to use a lot of soda. Plus more rinsing. The vinegar worked.
got a video for swiss chard?
I think this method will work for Swiss chard as well.
Is this Kale or Collards?
Kale
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