(India Mustard, Osaka Purple Mustard)

Bearing pungently flavored leaves that add zest and color to salads and cooked dishes, 'Osaka Purple' is a cultivar of India mustard, a cool-season annual that originates from Asia. Its rosettes of broad, oval, crinkled leaves grow from a taproot. The purple-hued leaves are ready for harvest in about 45 days after sowing. 'Osaka Purple' is more compact and has broader leaves than the comparable selection, 'Red Giant'. Hot weather causes plants to "bolt", or produce flower stalks. The flowers clusters...

(India Mustard, Red Giant Mustard)

As the name suggests, ‘Red Giant’ is a large India mustard that produces impressive clusters of flavorful, burgundy red leaves. The mature leaves can be harvested as quickly as 48 days after sowing and add zest to salads, sandwiches and cooked dishes. Harvest after 25 days for baby greens.

India mustard is a fast growing, cool season annual or biennial that originates from Asia but has been introduced as a weed in many other parts of the world. It produces rosettes of large, oval, crinkled...

(India Mustard, Southern Giant Curled India Mustard)

The favorite southern mustard green, 'Southern Giant Curled', is an heirloom cultivar of India mustard, a cool-season annual that originates from Asia. The leaves can be harvested as quickly as 56 days after sowing and are excellent for cooking. This 1935 All-America Selections Winner has remained popular because it’s a good garden performer with excellent flavor. It is also relatively cold-hardy.

'Southern Giant Curled' produces rosettes of large, oval leaves that are bright green and curly....

(Rape, Rutabaga, Turnip)

Rapeseed is grown for its oil-rich seed, edible greens and tasty fleshy roots. Its greatest value is its bitter-tasting oil which is used industrially to make biodiesel fuel. Canola oil, which has a mild flavor and is favored for cooking, also comes from a variety of Brassica napus. Some types of rape are grown for animal forage but many are raised for their flavorful greens and large, edible roots. The common name, rape, is derived from the Medieval Latin word rapum, which means...

(Rutabaga, Swede , Swedish Turnip)

Long grown as animal fodder and for its edible rootstock, this biennial vegetable probably originated as a hybrid between turnip (Brassica rapa) and wild cabbage (B. oleracea). The large, swollen, succulent "root" is purple, yellow or white with yellowish flesh. It actually comprises the hypocotyl (the portion of the embryonic plant between the root and the seedling leaves) and the base of the stem. Plants produce a rosette of large, bluish, deeply lobed leaves that are...

(Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Collards, Kale, Kohlrabi)

Cabbage, kale, collard greens, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, and other important green vegetables all descend from this short-lived perennial from coastal areas of western and southern Europe.

In the wild, Brassica oleracea forms dense over-wintering rosettes of large, fleshy, lobed, gray-green leaves, which give rise in spring to tall spikes of pale yellow, four-petaled flowers. Developed over many centuries, cultivated forms may have loose or densely packed rosettes...

(Alcosa Cabbaga, Savoy Cabbage)

An early-maturing, "miniature" savoy cabbage, 'Alcosa' bears dense heads of crinkled leaves that are sweet and 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 72 days after sowing, 'Alcosa' forms coconut-sized heads with thick, leathery, deep blue-green outer leaves and relatively thin,...

(Arrowhead Cabbage, Cabbage)

An early-maturing, "miniature" cabbage in an unusual shape, 'Arrowhead' bears dense conical heads of thin tender leaves that are sweet and 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, 'Arrowhead' forms small, pointed "cone-heads" of pale green leaves that are thinner...

(Kale)

A heat-tolerant kale that works well in the vegetable or ornamental garden, 'Blue Ridge' has ruffled 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 showy leaves on branching stems that elongate to knee height. In cool weather the foliage takes on richer, deeper...

(Bonnie Hybrid Cabbage, Cabbage)

Productive in cool weather, 'Bonnie Hybrid' yields large cabbage heads that are resistant to Fusarium yellows and tolerant of black rot. Maturing about 75 days after planting from seedlings, 'Bonnie Hybrid' forms volleyball-sized heads with spreading, leathery, blue-green outer leaves and tightly packed, yellowish blue-green inner leaves. Flavor is robust and slightly sweet. Expect each mature cabbage head to weigh between 5 and 7 pounds (2 to 4 kg). Heads resist splitting.

Typically grown...