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Red Ursa Kale Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 65-70
Description: Cross between 'Red Russian' and 'True Siberian'. 24- to 30-inch plants are bolt-resistant and heat-tolerant Similar to 'Red Russian' but the leaves are more rounded and curved at the ends.

Redbor Kale Overall Rating: (4.8 Stars):
4 Ratings
Days to Maturity: 55-65
Description: Hybrid. 2-foot plants with curly, maroon-red leaves. Quite cold hardy and best in fall. Plants can grow to 5 feet in long growing season conditions.

Red Russian Kale Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
10 Ratings
Days to Maturity: 50-60
Description: Oak-shaped, gray-green, toothed leaves with deep-purple veins and stems. Very tender leaves turn dark green when cooked. Harvest baby greens at 25 days. Heirloom. Also known as 'Ragged Jack' and 'Russian Red'.

Dwarf Blue Curled Kale Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
4 Ratings
Days to Maturity: 55-60
Description: 1-foot plant with low, short-stemmed, finely curled, blue-green leaves. Also known as 'Dwarf Blue Curled Scotch', 'Blue Curled Scotch' and 'Dwarf Blue Curled Vates'.

White Russian Kale Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
2 Ratings
Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Flat, silvery-green leaves with white veins. Taller than Red Russian. Also known as Cavolo Palmizio.

Toscano Kale Overall Rating: (4.4 Stars):
7 Ratings
Days to Maturity: 65-65
Description: Dark-green, blistered, strap-shaped leaves. Resistant to heat and cold. Harvest baby leaves at 30 days. Also known as 'Nero Di Toscano'.

Blue Ridge Kale Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
2 Ratings
Days to Maturity: 52-52
Description: Hybrid. Dark blue-green, fully curled leaves. Slow to bolt. Good heat resistance.

Vates Blue Curled Kale Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 55-56
Description: Standard, blue-green, finely curled, 12- to 14-inch leaves on 15-inch plants. Slow to bolt. Also known as 'Blue Curled Vates'.

Winterbor Kale Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 52-60
Description: Hybrid. 2- to 3-foot plants with 24-inch, finely curled, dark blue-green leaves. Harvest baby leaves at 28 days.

Siberian Kale Overall Rating: (3.5 Stars):
2 Ratings
Days to Maturity: 60-70
Description: 12- to 16-inch plants bear large, feather-shaped, blue-green leaves. Sow spring or fall. Actually a variety of rape (Brassica rapus), not a kale.

Hanover Salad Kale Overall Rating: (2.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 30-30
Description: Extra early Siberian variety. Plants produce large, smooth strong-flavored leaves.

Green Lance Kale Overall Rating: (1.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 45-50
Description: Hybrid Chinese broccoli/kale. 8-inch stalks bear 2 to 3 open flower heads.

Konserva Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: 2-foot plants with light-green, well-crinkled leaves.

Starbor Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 45-45
Description: Hybrid. Compact plants with blue-green leaves. Good frost resistance.

Wild Garden Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Mix produces a variety of frilled and savoyed leaves from green with white or silver to red and burgundy shades. Open pollinated.

Laciniato Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-62
Description: 3-foot plants produce very dark blue-green, puckered strap-shaped leaves up to 2 feet long. Also known as 'Tuscan', 'Black Kale', 'Black Cabbage', 'Lacinato', 'Nero di Toscana', 'Cavolo Nero', 'Black Palm Tree', 'Tuscan Black Cabbage' and 'Dinosaur Kale'.

Nagoya Garnish Red Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Ornamental and garnish variety produces frilly, fan-shaped leaves with contrasting centers and green edges. The colors are most intense in cool weather.

True Siberian Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Fast growing 24- to 30-inch plants with large, frilly, blue-green leaves. Cold hardy. It can be picked all winter in some areas.

Dinosaur Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-80
Description: 2- to 3-foot plants produce thin, mild-flavored, dark blue-green leaves. Very cold hardy and also holds up well in heat. Also known as 'Lacinato Blue' and 'Tuscan'.

Western Front Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Mix of Russian kales.

Lily White Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Crambe maritima, also known as sea kale, a perennial often grown as an ornamental. Once established, harvest young shoots like asparagus, lightly boiled.

Suiho Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 44-50
Description: Hybrid Asian flower-bud type green (Chinese broccoli/kale). Harvest 8- to 14-inch plants when 2 or 3 flower buds are open and stems are about 3/4 inch wide. Use in stir-fries or like broccoli.

Early Siberian Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 65-65
Description: 14-inch plants produce slightly curled, blue/green leaves.

Dwarf Green Curled Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-65
Description: Compact 12- to 15-inch-tall by 24- to 25-inch-wide plants produce deep, yellowish-green, wrinkled, curly leaves. Also known as 'Jamaica', 'Bloomsdale', and 'Dwarf Curled Scotch'.

Dwarf Siberian Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Russian variety. 16-inch plants produce slightly frilled leaves.

Winter Red Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Open-pollinated 'Red Russian' type. 30-inch plants produce dark-green, oak-shaped leaves with red and purple veins that turn green when cooked. Cold-tolerant and disease-resistant.

Improved Dwarf Siberian Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Open-pollinated. 24-inch plants produce frilly, dark-green leaves.

Squire Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Short-stemmed plants produce curly leaves. Heat-tolerant and slow to bolt. A selection from 'Vates'.

Premier Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Bolt-resistant plants produce smooth, deep green leaves with scalloped edges. Remains compact when over-wintered while developing new growing points on the main stem.

Blue Armor Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 45-57
Description: Hybrid Scotch-type kale. Plants produce deep blue-green, very curled and fringed leaves with wide petiole spacing for easy harvest.

Ryokuho Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 45-50
Description: Hybrid Chinese broccoli/kale. Upright, 16-inch plants produce tender, 3/4-inch stems with smooth dark-green leaves on very short petioles. Disease and heat resistant. Medium bolting tolerance.

Te You Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Chinese broccoli/kale. Plants produce long, thick stems with smooth, dark-green leaves. Tolerates both heat and cool temperatures. Mildew resistant.

Wan Shen Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 65-65
Description: Late maturing Chinese broccoli/kale. Plants produce large, green leaves on very thick, crispy stems.

Ripbor Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 65-65
Description: Hybrid kale. Medium-tall plants produce dark-green, ruffled leaves similar to 'Winterbor'.

Blue Star Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 45-60
Description: Chinese broccoli/kale. Plants produce large stems with bluish-green leaves and white flower buds. Harvested in 45 days spring/summer and 55-60 days fall/winter.

Big Boy Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 45-45
Description: Chinese broccoli/kale. Plants produce large edible stems, branch tips, young yellow flower buds, and leaves.

Thick Stem Winner Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Later maturing Chinese broccoli/kale. Plants produce edible blue-green leaves, white flower tips and solid stems.

Green Delight Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Chinese broccoli/kale. Plants produce slightly pointed leaves, white flower tips and stems slightly smaller than 'Blue Star'.

Crispy Bluepad Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 45-45
Description: Chinese broccoli/kale. Plants produce bluish-green leaves and stalks. Harvest young stalks before flowers open. Harvest cut-and-come-again starting about 45 days after sowing.

South Sea Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 35-50
Description: Chinese broccoli/kale. Heat-resistant plants produce light green leaves, stalks and flower buds.

Bear Necessities Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Developed from crosses between mizuna and Russian and Siberian kales. Plants produce skeletal leaves in a range of colors.

Gulag Stars Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Russian and Siberian kales with diverse colors and leaf types.

Small Leaf Kailann Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Chinese kale. Plants produce small leaves.

Gai Lohn Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Open-pollinated Chinese kale. Heat resistant plants produce edible stalks, young leaves and buds. Cut stalks 6 to 8 inches from the top when white buds form to force new growth.

Giant Walking Stick Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 180-180
Description: Open-pollinated, heirloom novelty from the Channel Islands. Plants grow 5- to 7-feet tall from spring sowing with kale- or cabbage-leaved head at the top. Cut in fall and dry for walking stick.

Savoy Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: 24-inch, open-pollinated, exceptionally hardy plants produce dark green, slightly ruffled leaves kale with purple blush. Cross of 'Dwarf Scotch' and 'Black Tuscan'.

Wild Red Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Variation of 'Red Russian'. 2-foot plants produce silver-green leaves overlaid with bright red on stems and leaf joints. Open pollinated.

Even’Star Kale Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 58-58
Description: Open-pollinated plants produce smooth, slightly lobed, green-blue leaves. Disease tolerant.
 
 
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