(Cabbage, Golden Cross Cabbage)

If you're short on time, the fast-growing 'Golden Cross' is an excellent choice for sneaking in a cabbage crop when growing temperatures are cool and mild. This miniature cabbage is ideal for small garden spaces. The firm, leafy heads are decorative and delicious when eaten cooked or raw. Heads mature very fast in 40 to 45 days after planting from seedlings. Each softball-sized head is surrounded by spreading, leathery, light yellowish blue-green outer leaves and tightly packed, whitish-green inner...

(Purple Cauliflower)

The attention grabbing, smile invoking heads of 'Graffiti' electric violet purple. In addition to having obvious visual appeal, they are also more nutritious. An ornamental delight to grow and eat, this purple cauliflower is a superb choice for the cool-season home vegetable garden or market garden. It has a tender texture and mild flavor when eaten raw or cooked. From sowing, 'Graffiti' takes about 80 days to fully mature. It is a cool season vegetable that performs best when grown in the cool...

One of the most familiar green vegetables, broccoli (also known as Italian or sprouting broccoli) is an excellent choice for the garden. Typically grown as an annual, this cool season vegetable 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.

Some broccoli varieties produce a large central head with...

(Cabbage)

An exceptionally cold-hardy heirloom cabbage that is ideal as a winter crop, 'January King' bears dense heads of semi-crinkled leaves that are delicious 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 100 days after sowing, 'January King' forms cantaloupe-sized heads with leathery, blue-green, purple-tinged...

(Kale, Kamome White Flowering Kale)

Bearing large colorful chrysanthemum-like rosettes of white and blue-green leaves, 'Kamome White' makes a wonderful ornamental plant for the fall and winter garden. It is one of several cultivars in the Kamome Series of ornamental kales. Typically grown as annuals, they derive from Brassica oleracea, a fleshy-leaved, short-lived perennial from coastal areas of western and southern Europe.

Wide as dinner plates, the dense heads of large ruffled leaves have broad blue-green margins and...

(Dinosaur Kale, Kale, Tuscan Kale)

A striking and distinctive heirloom kale that works well in the vegetable or ornamental garden, 'Lacinato' has crinkled, dark blue-green foliage that is especially colorful in cool weather. Typically grown as an annual, kale is a cool season vegetable tracing its ancestry to Brassica oleracea, a fleshy-leaved, short-lived perennial from coastal areas of western and southern Europe.

This cultivar bears loose heads of showy leaves that grow to knee height. In cool weather the foliage takes...

(Cabbage)

An large, late-maturing, heirloom cabbage introduced in 1889, 'Mammoth Red Rock' bears dense heads of colorful leaves that are delicious either cooked, preserved, 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 90 to 100 days after sowing, 'Mammoth Red Rock' forms volleyball-sized heads with leathery, blue-green, purple-tinged...

(Kale)

A selection of the heirloom variety 'Green Glaze', this variety is noted not only for the unusual color and texture of its leaves but also for its resistance to heat, cold, bolting, and pests. 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, short-lived...

(Kale, Ornamental Kale)

Bearing large colorful chrysanthemum-like rosettes of red and purple-green leaves, 'Nagoya Red' makes a wonderful ornamental plant for the fall and winter garden. It is one of several cultivars in the Nagoya Series of ornamental kales. Typically grown as annuals, they derive from Brassica oleracea, a fleshy-leaved, short-lived perennial from coastal areas of western and southern Europe.

Wide as dinner plates, the dense heads of large crinkled leaves have broad blue-green margins and...

(Kale, Ornamental Kale)

Bearing huge chrysanthemum-like rosettes of pink and purple-green leaves, 'Nagoya Rose' makes a wonderful ornamental plant for the fall and winter garden. It is one of several cultivars in the Nagoya Series of ornamental kales. Typically grown as annuals, they derive from Brassica oleracea, a fleshy-leaved, short-lived perennial from coastal areas of western and southern Europe.

Wide as dinner plates, the dense heads of large crinkled leaves have broad purple-green margins and rosy pink...