Brassica oleracea

Flowering Cabbage and Kale

Two kinds are important in cool-weather gardens for their richly colored purple-, cream-, pink-, white-, and rose-variegated leaves. Plants are quite resistant to frost. Flowering Kale has frilly leaves and an open growth habit. It is relatively heat-resistant and can grow through the summer. Flowering Cabbage forms lower growing, flattened plants with broad heads. Both kinds are excellent for formal borders in the fall or can be grown in pots around the patio.

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Use to add color to any garden. Cabbage and Kale do best when started in late summer to mature in the fall. Sow seeds in the garden, and protect seedlings from cabbage worms and aphids. If grown in spring, start indoors 8 -10 weeks before frost-free date and set out as soon as the soil can be worked.