Ruby Ball cabbage
Brassica oleracea 'Ruby Ball'
AAS Winner 1972
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
'Ruby Ball' cabbage (Brassica oleracea 'Ruby Ball') is a vegetable for food gardens, borders, and specimen plantings. 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. It has an erect habit and grows at a moderate rate. Butterflies and bees visit it, and it tolerates salt.
Pairs well with Scallion green onion, Berggarten sage, and Jacob Cline spotted beebalm.