Vegetable / Cool season
Lacinato Kale
Long-window leafy crop for spring, fall, and containers.
Deep green leaves with earthy, slightly sweet flavor.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 60
- Germination temperature
- 55-85F
- Seed depth
- 0.5 inches
- Spacing
- 18 inches
- Row spacing
- 24 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 5 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 28 days before last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 10 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 21 days
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Even moisture for tender leaves.
- Soil
- Fertile soil with steady nitrogen.
- Watch
- Monitor cabbage worms and aphids before damage gets obvious.
- greens
- cold-tolerant
- cut-and-come-again
- fall
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Mustard Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
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- High Pollinator Value Seeds Practical trait collection
- Succession Sowing Seeds Practical trait collection
- Quick-Maturity Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
- Part-Shade-Tolerant Seeds Practical trait collection
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