{"id":34421,"date":"2025-11-24T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/?post_type=product&#038;p=34421"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:01:05","slug":"kale-mira-red-stem-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/shop\/kale-mira-red-stem-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kale \u2018Mira Red-Stem\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful, ruffled green kale with purple stems that looks and cooks like an <i>oleraceae <\/i>curly kale but has all the grower benefits of a <i>napus <\/i>kale. Bred by Megan Allen at Care of the Earth Community Farm from a selection of \u201cGulag Stars,\u201d a mix of <i>napus <\/i>kales that have been crossed with <i>B.rapa<\/i> that were selected and released by Adaptive Seeds. Mira Red-Stem is very uniform and makes beautiful bunches.\u00a0 For harvesting all winter, row cover is recommended. Flavor is similar to \u201cMeadowlark\u201d (an <i>oleraceae <\/i>kale). Mira Red-Stem does not become overly sweet in cold weather. 55 days. Photo courtesy of Common Wealth Seed Growers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Care: Plant 20-30&#8243; apart in rows 24-36&#8243; apart in full sun, cool moist soil.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/continuousweb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5644\" style=\"margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px;\" title=\"continuousweb\" src=\"http:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/continuousweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"63\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a>Continuous Harvest variety<\/p>\n<p>Cold-tolerant plants that stand in the field for harvest as needed in late fall and early winter. May overwinter in mild seasons, or die back and sprout from the root in spring for an extra-early crop. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Fall-Winter-Garden-Chart-2024-5.pdf\">Fall &amp; Winter Vegetable Guide<\/a> for specific planting\/harvest times &amp; freeze-out temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful, ruffled green kale with purple stems that looks and cooks like an oleraceae curly kale but has all the grower benefits of a napus kale. Bred by Megan Allen at Care of the Earth Community Farm from a selection of \u201cGulag Stars,\u201d a mix of napus kales that have been crossed with B.rapa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[343,841],"product_tag":[691,914,868],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/34421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=34421"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=34421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}