Red Russian / Roter Russischer
Variety
Red Russian / Roter Russischer
Approved Data
created by Mareike D. at 26.02.2021
Features
Color
green
purple
Season Overview
Propagating
Planting
Harvest
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Description
Healthy, vigorous leafy kale with purple stems and dark green, serrated leaves. Leaves are noticeably softer than other kale varieties. Harvest as baby leaves for salads or full-grown as a cooking vegetable. Medium frost hardiness.
Non hybrid
Frostproof
Growing tips
Planting distance about 75 x 30 cm, for harvesting as a baby leaf 15 x 10 cm. Mild aromatic taste. For Baby-Leaf sow approx. 2 weeks offset.
Details
Light requirement
Sunny
Water requirement
Wet
Soil
Medium (loamy)
Nutrient requirement
Low
Seeding distance
40 cm
Row spacing
60 cm
Seeding depth
1 cm
Companion Plants
Artichoke
Aubergine / Eggplant
Bean (Broad bean / Faba bean / Field bean)
Bean (Dwarf bean)
Bean (Runner bean)
Beetroot
Borage
Caraway / Meridian fennel / Persian cumin
Carrots
Celery (Celeriac / Celery root)
Celery (Celery)
Chamomile
Chard
Common marigold
Coriander / Cilantro
Cucumber / Gherkin
Dill
Lettuce (Endive / Escarole / Erisée)
Lettuce (Lamb's lettuce)
Lettuce (Lettuce)
Lettuce (Radicchio / Italian chicory)
Miner's lettuce / Indian lettuce / Winter purslane
Mint
Oregano
Parsley
Parsnip
Pea
Physalis
Potato
Radish
Radishes
Rhubarb
Sage
Soybean
Spinach (Summer)
Antagonistic Plants
Arugula / Rocket
Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage (Cabbage)
Cabbage (Savoy cabbage)
Cauliflower
Collard greens (Tuscan kale / Dinosaur kale / Palm tree kale)
Fennel
Florence fennel / Finocchio
Garlic
Horseradish
Jerusalem artichoke / Topinambur
Kohlrabi / German turnip / Turnip cabbage
Lovage
Marjoram
Mizuna / Japanese mustard greens
Napa cabbage / Chinese cabbage
Okra
Onion
Onion (Spring onion)
Pak Choi
Rutabaga / Swedish turnip
Strawberry
Turnip
Diseases
Club root of cabbage
Powdery mildews
Pests
Root knot nematodes
Cabbage white
Cabbage fly
Nematodes
White fly
