Ornamental cabbage varieties like 'Pigeon White' can thrive in both spring and fall, but you may have better luck avoiding insects like cabbage worms, aphids, and cutworms with a late fall planting.

Q: I have long admired beautiful cabbage plants and would like to plant some in a flower bed on the east side of my home. I can’t find these plants. When do I plant and how do I care for them ...

Taking care of ornamental cabbage and kale in the landscape is similar to that of garden varieties, Owings says. Growing them in containers, on the other hand, is more of a challenge.

Ornamental cabbage and kale are easy ways to bring color to your garden in fall and winter – usually until the first heavy snow of the season covers them up. The ornamental brassicas, like their ...

COCKEYSVILLE, Md. — Carrie Engel from Valley View Farms joins Jenyne for a lesson in caring for ornamental cabbage - a great plant to add color to your garden as the weather gets colder.

Ornamental cabbage usually refers to selections that have smooth and more or less unruffled leaves. Kale, on the other hand, has ruffled, textured leaves and many have feathered leaf edges.

Ornamental kale and cabbage are edible; however, they are more bitter than their vegetable garden relatives of cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower.

Ornamental cabbage and kale are close relatives of edible cabbages and kale. In fact, they are the very same species, Brassica oleracea. Because they have been bred for their unique color patterns and ...

The striking rosette of leaves of ornamental cabbage and kale develops as leaves are produced and, with cooler temperatures, the center foliage changes in color. When young, leaves are green but ...

Ornamental cabbage and kale are easily-grown and prefer rich, moist, well-drained soil. They perform best in full sun. When you are planting, bury the stems so the lowest leaves of the plants are ...

Ornamental cabbage usually refers to selections that have smooth and mostly unruffled leaves. Kale, on the other hand, has ruffled, textured leaves, and many have feathered leaf edges.

Consider this fall planting ornamental cabbage and kale, either as a purchased plant or one grown from seed sown in your garden six to 10 weeks before the first anticipated frost.