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Cabbage, Broccoli & Other Brassicas Growing Guides

Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale, and other brassicas are important cool-season garden crops with many varieties and growing styles. They generally benefit from careful timing and good soil preparation, and understanding the needs of a particular crop can help gardeners avoid common problems and improve harvests.

Use the brassica growing guides below to learn how to grow the individual crops and varieties listed here. The guides can help you with planting, soil preparation, spacing, sunlight, watering, feeding, transplanting where appropriate, pest and growing problems, crop care, and harvesting. Whether you are growing familiar cabbage or broccoli or trying a less common brassica, these guides provide a practical starting point for growing the crop successfully.

Aalsmeer cauliflower Amazing cauliflower Arcadia broccoli
Attribute cauliflower Azur Star kohlrabi Baby bok choy
Baby cauliflower Beas kohlrabi Belstar broccoli
Bilko cabbage Bishop cauliflower Blue Wind broccoli
Blues cabbage Broccoli Broccoli florets
Broccoli rabe Broccoli shoots Broccoli sprouts
Broccoli stems Broccolini Brunswick cabbage
Brussels sprout stalks Brussels sprouts Cabbage
Cabbage hearts Cabbage sprouts Calabrese broccoli
Canton bok choy Caraflex cabbage Catskill Brussels sprouts
Cauliflower Cauliflower shoots Cauliflower stems
Charleston Wakefield cabbage Cheddar cauliflower Chinese broccoli
Chinese cabbage Churchill Brussels sprouts Copenhagen Market cabbage
Coronado Crown broccoli Curd cauliflower Dagan Brussels sprouts
Danish Ballhead cabbage Deadon cabbage DeCicco broccoli
Delicacy White kohlrabi Denali cauliflower Di Ciccio broccoli
Di Sicilia cauliflower Diablo Brussels sprouts Diplomat broccoli
Early broccoli Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage Early Snowball cauliflower
Early White Vienna kohlrabi Express cabbage Falstaff Brussels sprouts
Famosa Savoy cabbage Farao cabbage Fiesta broccoli
Flat Dutch cabbage Franklin Brussels sprouts Fremont cauliflower
Gigante kohlrabi Golden Acre cabbage Gonzales cabbage
Graffiti cauliflower Grand Duke kohlrabi Green cabbage
Green cauliflower Green Gems Brussels sprouts Green Goliath broccoli
Green kohlrabi Green Macerata cauliflower Green Magic broccoli
Green Savoy cabbage Green Sprouting broccoli Green stem bok choy
Green Trevi cauliflower Gustus Brussels sprouts Gypsy broccoli
Hestia Brussels sprouts Igor Brussels sprouts Imperial broccoli
Integro cabbage Jade Cross Brussels sprouts Jade Cross E Brussels sprouts
January King cabbage Kohlrabi Kohlrabi bulb
Kohlrabi tops Kolibri kohlrabi Konan kohlrabi
Kossak kohlrabi Late Flat Dutch cabbage Long Island Improved Brussels sprouts
Mammoth Red Rock cabbage Marathon broccoli Michihili cabbage
Mini cauliflower Minuet cabbage Multi Head cauliflower
Murdoc cabbage Napa cabbage Nautic Brussels sprouts
Oliver Brussels sprouts Orange cauliflower Packman broccoli
Perennial broccoli Perennial cabbage Pointed cabbage
Portuguese cabbage Prince Marvel Brussels sprouts Purple bok choy
Purple Cape cauliflower Purple cauliflower Purple Danube kohlrabi
Purple kohlrabi Quickstar kohlrabi Quintal dAlsace cabbage
Rapini Red Acre cabbage Red Ball Brussels sprouts
Red cabbage Red Savoy cabbage Redarling Brussels sprouts
Romanesco broccoli Romanesco cauliflower Roodnerf Brussels sprouts
Rosette bok choy Rubicon cabbage Rubine Brussels sprouts
Ruby Perfection cabbage Savoy cabbage Savoy cauliflower
Shanghai bok choy Sicilian Violet cauliflower Skywalker cauliflower
Snowball cauliflower Sprouting broccoli Stonehead cabbage
Storage No. 4 cabbage Sun King broccoli Superschmelz kohlrabi
Tenderstem broccoli Tronchuda cabbage Vertus Savoy cabbage
Vienna Purple kohlrabi Vienna White kohlrabi Violet Queen cauliflower
Waltham 29 broccoli Waltham broccoli White Sails cauliflower
White stem bok choy White Vienna kohlrabi Wild broccoli
Wild cabbage Wild cauliflower Windsor broccoli
Winner kohlrabi Wong Bok cabbage Yuki cabbage

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