FLOWERING KALE SEED

FLOWERING KALE

Description
Bold Flowering Kale Seeds 5225. A cabbage-like kale that highlights any garden with its rose or purple coloured frilly leaves. Taller and wider than our flowering cabbage variety. A must for late season colour in the landscape.

How to Grow
250 seed/gram. Seed can be started indoors in a soil-less mix 6 weeks early. Sow 12 mm (1/2″) deep and keep the temperature around 20 C (70 F). Grow-on under lights at 14 C (58 F) until transplanting outside in mid to late May. Direct seed outdoors in mid-May to mid-June then thin seedlings to 60 cm (2′) apart when the plants reach 5 cm (2″) in height.

LIFECYCLE
Biennial Grown as an Ornamental Annual

PROPAGATION
Start Indoors or Sow Direct in Spring

DAYS TO EMERGENCE
10 to 14

LIGHT
Full Sun

GROWTH HABIT
Bushy

HEIGHT
Medium (50 to 70 cm)(20" to 28")

FROST TOLERANCE
Frost Hardy

DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY
Easy

HERITAGE
Open Pollinated

FAMILY NAME
Brassicaceae

LATIN
Brassica oleracea

SUGGESTED USES
Contrast foliage plant, Late season colour, Massing in a sunny garden