OH heavily into Curly Kale.. I eat it but not hat impressed. My usual lazy/ignorant way of growing stuff... start 20 seeds each type brassica now and then every few weeks..plant them out when a reasonable size and soemthing will grow sometime..
Germinate them indors when too cold, grow on in greenhouse for plantng out ..as weather improves they get started outside.
I did 2 trays of 40 cells each day before yesterday.. C Kale, Brussels, 3 sorts cabbage, cauli and PSB 10-15 of each
Agai in my lazy way I chuck all the spare chicken bedding, and woodchips and similar on last years veggie patch, topper it, let weeds resprout, spray it down and plough it in. It rots down enough by next season.
Right now it's a tad cold for the kale in the veggie patch to be growing that fast. there's about a dozen plants and pickable perhaps once or twice a week for one person. PSB doing fine though and stll sprouts on the brussels from november.
(ive got a couple hundred leeks still)