(Carolina Cabbage Collard Greens, Collard Greens)

This mild tasting collard green produces large, tender leaves with milky white stems. The first tender leaves are ready to harvest after 80 days when planted from seed and are sweetest when gathered in cool weather. In fact, they're sweetest after the first mild frost of fall. Cook them as you would kale or spinach.

As beautiful as they are delicious, kale, collards, flowering cabbage, and the other vegetables in this group derive from Brassica oleracea, a fleshy-leaved short-lived...

(Kale)

An exceptionally hardy, bolt-resistant collard whose leaves remain tender and tasty weeks after those of other varieties have turned bitter from the heat, 'Champion' is a selection of the long-time favorite 'Vates'. A cool-season vegetable that resembles a loose-leaved cabbage, the collard has long been a mainstay of gardens and kitchens in the southern United States, but is increasing in popularity elsewhere. Typically grown as an annual, it traces its ancestry to Brassica oleracea, a fleshy-leaved,...

(Cabbage)

An early-maturing, "miniature" cabbage that holds for weeks in the garden without splitting, 'Charmant' bears dense spherical heads that are delicious either cooked or raw. Typically grown as an annual, cabbage is a cool season vegetable that traces its ancestry to Brassica oleracea, a fleshy-leaved, short-lived perennial from coastal areas of western and southern Europe.

Maturing some 66 days after sowing, 'Charmant' forms coconut-sized heads with thick, leathery, blue-green outer leaves...

(Chidori Pink Ornamental Kale, Ornamental Kale)

Bringing texture and shades of pink and green to the garden in the frosty fall, winter and spring seasons, ‘Chidori Pink’ is an ornamental kale, bred to be showy and descended from plants native to the coastal regions of southern and western Europe. It is a short-lived, hardy perennial typically grown as an annual.

The grayed, light green-blue leaves form a low rosette. As temperatures cool, the foliage develops bright pink colors, concentrated in the central new leaves. In the second year, the...

(Chidori Red Ornamental Kale, Ornamental Kale)

Bringing texture and violet-red and green color to the garden in the frosty fall, winter and spring seasons, ‘Chidori Red’ is an ornamental kale bred for showy leaves and descended from plants native to the coastal regions of southern and western Europe. It is a short-lived hardy perennial typically grown as an annual.

The light green to blue-green leaves form a low rosette. As temperatures cool, the foliage develops robust violet-red to deep pink-red colors, concentrated in the central new leaves....

(Chidori White Ornamental Kale, Ornamental Kale)

Bringing bold texture and white and green color to the garden in the frosty fall, winter and spring seasons, ‘Chidori’ White ornamental kale was bred for showy color from plants native to the coastal regions of southern and western Europe. It is a short-lived hardy perennial typically grown as an annual.

The grayed, light, green-blue leaves form a low rosette. As temperatures cool, the foliage develops creamy white colors, concentrated in the central new foliage. In the second year, the plants...

(Cabbage, Copenhagen Market Cabbage)

Fittingly named 'Copenhagen Market', this Danish heirloom cabbage was brought to the United States in 1909 by the H. Hartman & Company. Maturing 63 to 100 days after planting from seedlings, 'Copenhagen Market' forms 6- to 8-inch (15- to 20- centimeter) heads with upright, leathery, blue-green outer leaves and tightly packed, pale yellow-green inner leaves. Flavor is robust and sweet. Expect each mature head to weigh between 3 and 4 pounds (~ 2.5 kg). Heads resist splitting.

Cabbages...

(Broccoli)

An old reliable cultivar of one of the most familiar green vegetables, the broccoli variety 'De Cicco' is an excellent choice for the garden. Typically grown as an annual, broccoli is a cool season vegetable that traces its ancestry to Brassica oleracea, a fleshy-leaved, short-lived perennial from coastal areas of western and southern Europe. It is grown for its fleshy heads of flower buds, which are harvested and eaten before the flowers open.

Introduced about 1890, 'De Cicco' produces...

(Cabbage)

Bred and selected in Denmark, 'Dynamo' is a 1997 All-America Selections winner that produces compact heads that taste delicious either cooked or raw. Maturing 60 to 63 days after planting from seedlings, 'Dynamo' forms tightly packed heads with upright, leathery, blue-green outer leaves and relatively thin, yellow-green inner leaves. Flavor is robust and sweet. Expect each mature cabbage head to weigh between 2 and 3 pounds (1 kg).

Cabbages are categorized by their texture and color. Most have...

(Dynasty Red Ornamental Kale, Ornamental Kale)

To bring texture and color to the garden in the frosty fall, winter and spring seasons, ‘Dynasty Red’ ornamental kale was bred for showy leaves from plants native to the coastal regions of southern and western Europe. It is a short-lived hardy perennial that is typically grown as an annual.

The grayed, reddish-purple leaves are waxy, fleshy and edible, and grow in a rosette. As temperatures cool, the leaves develop rich magenta-red colors, especially in the central new foliage and in the veins....