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Cole Crops
Growing Cool Season Cabbage, Kale and Other members of the Brassicacea Family.
By Marie Iannotti, About.com Guide ...
Cole Crops. Toward the end of the month, you can plant flats of cole crops (like broccoli) under lights indoors for spring transplanting in March.
Cole crops-Member of the species Brassica oleracea, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts.
Compaction-A state where soil particles are forced closely together, reducing pore space.
cole crops. Any of the group of crucifer family crops that are varieties of the species Brassica oleracea, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and brussel spouts.
COLE CROPS - These are members of the cabbage family (ie. broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, collards, kohlorabi) ...
cole crops A group of vegetables belonging to the cabbage family; plants of the genus Brassica, including cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, turnips, and brussels sprouts.
In general, cole crops (cabbage, broccoli and the like), leafy greens (lettuce and spinach) and root crops prefer the cool season. Fruiting vegetables - from corn and beans to tomatoes and squash - prefer warmer weather.
Cabbages belong the cole crop family
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Deer damage or feed on a wide variety of fruits and vegetables such as cole crops, lettuce, grapes, corn, pumpkins, berries, tomatoes, fruit trees and other plants.
To control cabbageworms on broccoli and other cole crops, I apply Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis, a nonpoisonous biological control) as soon as I plant, and reapply a few days after every storm system passes through.
In Ground Storage: Many root crops and cole crops can be overwintered in the garden. In most cases it is important to prevent the ground from freezing. Milder winter climates may only need a frost blanket.
Beans, Cabbage, broccoli and other cole crops will provide shade for celery, lettuce, spinach. Tomatoes, corn, and sunflowers provide shade for lettuce, cucumbers, spinach, as well as providing a climbing place for cucumbers.
As might be expected, vegetables that do best are the cool-season types like cole crops. Cabbage, cauliflower, turnips, kohlrabi and Brussels sprouts predominate, but he also grows potatoes and sugar snap peas.
An even-moisture supply also enhances the flavor of leafy and root vegetables, as well as cole Crops like broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower. Potatoes become knobby if they become too dry, and may decay in the ground if kept overly wet.
Many of these vegetables are cole crops, or members of the Brassicaceae family. In fact, many of these plants grow better in cold weather because warm weather causes them to bolt, or produce seeds too early.
May refer to either a condition where a stone fruit tree produces small, misshapen fruit or where head forming cole crops (e.g. broccoli, cauliflower, etc) form a head before the plant is large enough to support it.
It can be used on such vegetables as asparagus, beans, carrots, cole crops, celery, cucumbers, greens, peas, pepper, potatoes and tomatoes.
milder and sweeter when harvested before it becomes too old and tough. Because the part that is eaten forms above ground, it is not prone to the root weevils that plague turnips. It is also less affected by drying winds and heat than other cole crops.
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