KALE-RED RUSSIAN
KALE-RED RUSSIAN
A$3.50
Availability: In stock
Brassica napus
KALE-RED RUSSIAN an old favorite is an excellent red-veined bunching kale. Sweeter and more tender than other kales during warm weather, yet also tolerates extreme cold. Plants have frilly purple-veined blue-green leaves tinged with reddish-purple. Colour deepens in the cold. It has a sweet taste, not bitter like traditional varieties of curly kale. It can be eaten as baby leaf or fully grown and still maintains its sweet flavor 60-376cm plant height.
Sow the seeds in a seedbed. When the plant is about 22cm high and four leaves have developed (about 6 weeks after sowing) transplant them to their final positions. They should be planted slightly deeper than they grew in the seedbed. Plant late summer/early spring.
| Germination Time (Days) | 6 – 12 |
| Sowing Depth (mm) | 10 |
| Plant Spacing (cm) | 40 – 60 |
| Row Spacing (cm) | 50 – 100 |
| pH | 6 – 7 |
| Soil Temperature (°C) | – |
| Hardy / Frost Tender | Hardy |
| Sow Direct / Raise Seedlings | Sow Direct / Raise Seedlings |
| Seed Preparation | – |
Scoville Heat Units (SHU)
Plant Height
30 - 75 cm (1 - 2.5 feet)
Season of Interest
Autumn, Winter, and Early Spring
Temperature Range
5 - 24 °C
Determine / Indeterminate
Annual / Perennial / Biennial
Biennial (grown as annual)
Frost Hardy / Tender
Frost Hardy
Full Sun / Part Sun / Shade
Full sun to part shade
Sow Direct / Raise Seedlings
Sow direct or raise seedlings
Soil
Well-drained, fertile loamy or sandy soil
pH
6.0 - 7.5
Soil Temperature
10 - 24 °C (50 - 75 °F)
Seed Preparation
No special preparation needed
Sowing Depth
1 cm (0.5 inch)
Plant Spacing
30 cm (12 inches)
Row spacing
45 cm (18 inches)
Watering
Regular watering, keep soil moist
Germination Time (Days)
5 - 10 days
Harvest Time (Days)
50 - 60 days
Good Companion Plants
Beets,Garlic,Marigolds
Bad Companion Plants
Strawberries,Tomatoes
Pests
Cabbage Worms,Aphids,Slugs
Diseases
Clubroot,Downy Mildew,Black Rot
More About Us
ABSeeds is an Australian owned business trading under the umbrella of Direct Compost Solutions which is owned and managed by Victoria Brun.
We as a company endeavor to provide to the public, Organic, Old Fashioned, Heritage, and Open-pollinated seeds that have not been genetically modified.
We purchased the business in November 2018 and renamed it to ABSeeds (All ‘Bout Seeds) to make the title shorter and represent what we hope to achieve with this business in the years ahead.
Seeds that we can’t grow ourselves we will acquire from people who grow for us, or we may purchase seeds from reputable heritage seed companies.
