Chinese Broccoli Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Guides

• How to Sow Kailan: Depth, Spacing, Soil Temperature and Thinning
• Kailan Care: Watering, Feeding and Growing a Thick Tender Stem
• Kailan Side Shoots: Weeks of Extra Cutting From One Sowing
• Kailan Growing Calendar: Sowing Through Heat and Into the Frosts
• Kailan Pests and Problems: Flea Beetle, Cabbage White and Woody Stems
• When to Harvest Kailan: Cutting the Stem as the First Buds Open

Pests and diseases (1)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.