Emerald Cross cabbage
Brassica oleracea 'Emerald Cross'
AAS Winner 1963
USDA zones6 to 9
SunHandles full sun to partial sun
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Habit
- Erect
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
'Emerald Cross' cabbage (Brassica oleracea 'Emerald Cross') is a vegetable for food gardens and borders. It is typically grown as an annual. It is one of the more cold-hardy crops and can keep growing through light freezes with some winter protection. This plant likes full or part sun and average to moist, sandy, loamy, or clay soil. Its erect plants grow at a moderate pace, and the flowers draw butterflies and bees.
Pairs well with Bull's Blood beet, Pennyroyal, and Georgia Peach coral bells.